Apollo

Soyoung Lee

Collector, Seoul

Iwan Kurniawan Lukminto 

Founder, Tumurun Museum, Surakarta

Andrei Nikolai Pamintuan 

Founding director, Fringe Manila Festival

RM (Namjoon Kim)

RM (Namjoon Kim) BTS

Collector, Seoul

Ryan Su

Founder, Ryan Foundation, Singapore

Che Xuanqiao 

Founder, Macalline Art Center, Beijing and Shanghai

In the studio with… Adam Pendleton

The New York-based artist enjoys strolling to his studio at the weekends to work in a quiet, concentrated atmosphere

William Kentridge

Video still from Notes Towards a Model Opera (2015), William Kentridge.

The Royal Academy in London hosts the celebrated South African artist’s largest UK retrospective to date

Füssli, the Realm of Dreams and the Fantastic

Queen Catherine's Dream Henry Fuseli

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris shines a light into the murky mind of this 18th-century master of the macabre

Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South

Gloria Jean with her Old Man and Sally Brown (detail; 1987), Georgia Speller. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., explores the varied traditions of art-making in the Southeastern United States

Idols and Rivals: Artists in Competition

Details of Titian's ‘Girl with a Fur’ (left; c. 1535) and Peter Paul Rubens’ ‘Helena Fourment in a Fur Coat' (right; 1636–38). Photo: © KHM-Museumsverband

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna considers how artists through history have spurred one another to new heights

There’s nothing nonsensical about the lonely landscapes of Edward Lear

The Forest of Bavella, Corsica, 7:10 am, 29 April 1868 (1868), Edward Lear. Photo: Woolley and Wallis Salerooms Ltd.

The Victorian poet and painter mapped out his moods in meticulous detail, sometimes even minute by minute

Bank account – the story of London’s lost riverside palaces

York Watergate, built in 1626

The Strand is now one of the capital’s busiest thoroughfares, but it was once home to a string of magnificent mansions

In search of the real Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann

The late performance artist celebrated the messiness of bodies in her work – so it’s a shame her survey at the Barbican all feels a bit clean

In the studio with… Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández

The New York-based artist cherishes her ongoing conversations with Cecilia Vicuña but is otherwise selective about who visits her sacred studio space

With the James Webb Telescope, star-gazing has become even more sublime

The heart of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy, recorded by the James Webb Telescope.

As data from NASA’s telescope is translated into images we can understand, the wonders it reveals are still out of this world

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp makes room for the new

As the museum prepares to reopen after its 11-year refurbishment, Apollo finds out just how much has changed

The Peacock Room

Whistler’s celebrated Peacock Room reopens to the public at the Freer Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Basquiat: Of Symbols and Signs

Untitled (detail; 1982) Jean-Michel Basquiat. Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

The Albertina Museum in Vienna explores the broad range of cultural references in the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jadé Fadojutimi: Can we see the colour green because we have a name for it?

New works by the young British painter go on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

Murillo: From Heaven to Earth

The Kimbell Art Museum takes a focused look at the religious painter’s less well-known secular scenes

Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022)

The Queen standing before Royal Family, by Franz Winterhalter, in 1953. Photo: Keystone/Getty Images

The United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch served as patron of numerous arts organisations

In the studio with… Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Conversation is paramount for this artistic duo – though they’ve yet to really talk about the mystery box of records in their New York studio

The many faces of the Queen

Queen Elizabeth II

From Cecil Beaton to Lucian Freud, some of the greatest names of the late 20th century have captured the Queen’s likeness