‘A revolutionary flame burned bright within him’: David Bindman (1940–2025)
The historian of 18th- and early 19th-century art combined a deep love of objects with an equally deep love of ideas
The historian of 18th- and early 19th-century art combined a deep love of objects with an equally deep love of ideas
In her inventive works, the late American artist sought to blur the boundaries between herself and her characters, both real and imagined
With a slew of new projects and major government investment, the Emirati art scene is having a moment. This time, it looks set to last
Housed in Louis Kahn’s last building, the newly spruced-up Yale Center for British Art reframes Paul Mellon’s collection
The best pieces among this year’s finalists blend skill and elegance with an awareness of questions about memory and inheritance
Revisiting a meeting of the two Surrealists in Paris in 1939 sheds new light on the movement as a whole
As the magazine marks its centenary, its belief in being curious about both the past and present – and in the power of art – is more important than ever
A look back at Apollo's commercial pages through the decades reveals shifts in consumer tastes – as well as some distinctly quirky offerings
Recent denials that the department for culture, media and sport is for the chop don’t address the problem of its glaring lack of purpose
The distinctive London cinemas designed by George Coles in the 1930s were like Hawksmoor churches for the celluloid age
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The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
The Singaporean playwright talks to Apollo about dramatising the return of a fictional statue from the British Museum to China
Long overshadowed by art from the post-war period, the work of the preceding generation is attracting interest again
The 19th-century painter’s views of the Valley of Mexico are at once scientific documents and odes to a landscape in flux
The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries
As her largest museum show to date opens, the Scottish artist talks to Samuel Reilly about her tender paintings of women at work
Luma Arles celebrates E.A.T., an alliance of artists and engineers who created some of the most thrillingly eccentric artworks of the mid 20th century
The artist made more than 100 drawings of the comic-strip character Nancy, and the results are profound as well as witty
The collections of high-profile individuals have long fetched high prices at auction, but their appeal can’t be taken for granted