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Review: ‘Multiple Exposures: Jewellery and Photography’ at MAD New York
In focusing on recent innovations, this exhibition risks losing sight of some of the original allure of its subject
‘It’s a building that only reveals itself by experience’. Inside the Clark Art Institute
After its long-awaited redevelopment, the Clark has unveiled an impressive new building designed by Tadao Ando alongside refurbished galleries by Annabelle Selldorf
Review: ‘The Art and Science of Exploration’ at the Queen’s House
A new display of art from Captain Cook’s voyages is compelling, but doesn’t quite tell the whole story
Muse Reviews: 17 August
Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Gallery: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center
Satan, sin and the underworld…selected highlights
Enigmas: Caroline Walker’s lithographs and paintings
The characters in Walker’s works are caught in moments of enigmatic significance, at once inconsequential and charged with possible implication
Apollo 40 Under 40: The Thinkers
Which curators, writers, academics and educators are steering public opinion about art?
Review: Mark Neville’s Helmand Work at the IWM London
Mark Neville’s films and photographs from Afghanistan reveal the strange banality of war
Gallery: ‘Landscape, abstracted’ at the MFA Boston
For centuries, painters have experimented with the landscape. Where will today’s artists venture next?
Review: ‘Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–15’ at LACMA
After three formative years in Berlin, Hartley returned to the US at the forefront of the avant-garde
Gallery: ‘East of the Wallace Line’ at Yale University Art Gallery
Art from Indonesia and New Guinea goes on show at the Yale University Art Gallery
The Week’s Muse: 9 August
A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room
Stanley Spencer’s Masterpiece: The Sandham Memorial Chapel
Love him or hate him, Stanley Spencer’s First World War paintings at Burghclere will win you over
A good advert for American art? Art Everywhere in the US
Can art add sparkle to the USA’s advertising billboards?
The Hague’s Hidden Treasures: Prince William V’s Picture Gallery
Not all of the Mauritshuis’s treasures are actually in the Mauritshuis
The Week’s Muse: 2 August
40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays
The Apollo Podcast July/August: The Imperial War Museum Reopens
Thomas Marks, Diane Lees and David Boyd Haycock discuss the role of art in commemorating the First World War
Acquisitions of the Month: July
Deaccessioning is in the news, but what of the museums that have been acquiring new work?
Edinburgh Art Festival: what not to miss
Heading to Edinburgh? Here are six fine art exhibitions to visit while you’re out there…
The Rodin Gift to the V&A: a centenary celebration
In 1914 Auguste Rodin gifted 18 sculptures to the V&A, in tribute to the British soldiers fighting alongside his own countrymen in the First World War
Apollo 40 Under 40: The Artists
Try making a list of 10 outstanding young artists, all based in Europe, and whose work already announces their original talent but also bears the promise of longevity. Where would you start?
Marsden Hartley
The German Paintings The American modernist Marsden Hartley spent three formative years in Berlin from 1913–15. This exhibition features…
Gallery: ‘Disobedient Objects’ at the V&A
What to expect from a museum show dedicated to the ingenious objects produced by protest groups
Are art installations the new video games?
Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?