Exhibition of the Year
Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Exhibition of the Year Award commends the best museum shows of the past 12 months
Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Exhibition of the Year Award commends the best museum shows of the past 12 months
As his 24-hour film The Clock returns to MoMA, Christian Marclay talks about working with sound and images – and bridging the divide between the two artistic worlds
The making of rag rugs has never been considered high art, but an exhibition in Middlesborough shows just how intricate and inventive they can be
Recent results for the London auctions may be a sign that things aren’t all doom and gloom
Artists from Helen Frankenthaler to Marlene Dumas have poured and splattered paint on to their canvases with a sense of enviable abandon
Château Smith Haut Lafitte is a vineyard sprinkled with the sensibility of an English country garden
The Museum of West African Art points to a new path for creating an institution from scratch and more imaginative ways of dealing with the colonial past
A stimulating show at Alison Jacques perfectly captures the sculptor’s ability to combine familiar materials in unexpected ways
The mosaic artist’s celebration of El Barrio combines influences including African clothing to Latin jazz to create something wonderfully new
New York-based collectors Domenico Lanzara and Sean Imfeld speak to Apollo about their obsession with Old Master drawings
The British artist talks to Arjun Sajip, digital editor of Apollo, about how the heads she sculpts using cutting-edge tech speak volumes about history and identity
The artist has pursued her interest in light, motion and myth across drawing, sculpture and performance for six decades, but it's her openness to new ideas that really defines her work
A feud in Fife involving a single-minded outsider artist and his unhappy neighbour gives Apollo’s roving correspondent cause to reflect
The artists’ eerie prints have much in common, but this pairing at the Holburne Museum is something of a missed opportunity
The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there
Printing is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
A play about Harry Beck, creator of London Underground map we still use today, shows just how tricky it was to land on the perfect design
Plus: the light sculptures of Anthony McCall, paintings by Frank Auerbach and his teacher David Bomberg, and Nordic nature scenes