Acquisitions of the month: September 2025
This month’s highlights include a Francis Bacon triptych that was once the most expensive artwork ever sold and a trove of Dada and Surrealist works
This month’s highlights include a Francis Bacon triptych that was once the most expensive artwork ever sold and a trove of Dada and Surrealist works
The newly renovated Station Hall at the National Railway Museum in York tracks 200 years of train travel, from royal dining cars to railwaymen’s outfits
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Apollo about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
The new director of the London fair is counting on Old Masters to breathe fresh life into the event
Plus: Walter Sickert’s brush with ennui, and Nicolas Party’s tribute to Rodin and Claudel
Plus: the home truths of Zofia Rydet, and some radically slim pickings at Senate House Library
By turns picturesque and insalubrious, mews houses have a compellingly chequered past
The humble tuber, rich in its own history, has long been a source of inspiration for painters depicting the peasant classes
An exhibition of Watteau's drawings at the British Museum is a lesson in appreciating the virtues of ambiguity
When the radical patron wasn’t collecting the work of modern British artists, she was urging them to join her in protesting against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War
An inventive show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is a thrilling introduction to a modern master of American art
This exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum demonstrates the Flemish baroque artist’s mastery of history painting, still lifes and the male body
The Polish artist prefers to work alone in his Kraków studio, where the silence was recently disturbed by a visiting hornet
The artist’s early paintings were a necessary preparation for his pioneering less-is-more installations
The emergence of Le Creuset cookware a century ago sparked a change in how home kitchens both looked and functioned
To coincide with a show at TM Gallery in London, the artist talked to Apollo about working with materials popular in the Middle Ages and the insights of neuroscience
The first fully fledged edition of the event offers a fast-paced guide to the city’s thriving contemporary art scene
The National Gallery is the latest UK arts institution to announce a citizens’ assembly. But what does this involve – and will any real decisions be taken?
Efforts to return works looted by the Nazis are becoming ever more complicated
The painter’s hugely restrained works are usually described as figurative, but perhaps they mark the precise point where abstraction and figuration meet