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An Enlightening Show
‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery takes an overdue look at the subject in art. Its powerful yogini statues steal the show
Affordable Art
A new 50p piece, designed by Tom Phillips to celebrate the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, attempts to ‘set the wild echoes flying’
New Year’s Revelations
Limerick’s first week as Ireland’s City of Culture has been a deliciously absurdist shambles as both the artistic director and CEO resign
Lunch with Rex Whistler
The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats at Tate Britain’s restaurant is more inviting than ever…
Book Competition
Apollo’s latest book competition offers you the chance to win ‘Turner & the Sea’ by Christine Riding and Richard Johns
12 Days
The IWM’s First World War centenary programme is the rightful highlight among hundreds of events planned to mark the anniversary in 2014
Rich Tea
‘Taste and Essence: Chinese and Western Historical Tea Pieces’ at the Macao Museum of Art looks at the rich history of tea-drinking in the East and West
Apollo Advent Calendar: Day 24
Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Canyon’ joins five of his other combines at MoMA, while the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquires an Ed Ruscha
Apollo Advent Calendar: Day 17
‘I am told I got it to look better than anything I have yet done,’ said Constable of this iconic painting of Salisbury Cathedral
Apollo Advent Calendar: Day 15
The Meadows Museum has acquired a virtuoso piece of baroque Spanish devotional sculpture by Juan Alonso Villabrille y Ron
Apollo Advent Calendar: Day 13
‘Extreme Unction’, a measured masterpiece from Poussin’s first series of the Seven Sacraments, has been acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum
Apollo Advent Calendar: Day 12
57 paintings from the collection of Sir Denis Mahon have been assigned to UK museums. This modello by Giordano goes to the National Gallery
Small Wonders: The Bowes Museum
Adrian Jenkins introduces the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, Teesdale
Apollo Advent Calendar: Day 9
This gem of a painting by Paul Bril depicts Saint Jerome in a mountainous landscape and was recently acquired by the Mauritshuis
Zervos Redux
Elegant and expensive, the republication of the Zervos Picasso Catalogue by Cahiers d’Art is a strange throwback to a very different era
Orient Expression
It’s an interesting premise, but ‘The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the East’ at Palazzo Strozzi is ultimately rather disorientating
Visual Feasts
Despite a few bland contemporary exhibits, ‘Art and Appetite’ at the Art Institute of Chicago is an excellent survey of a nation’s changing tastes
Open Book
The recent two-day symposium, ‘Art, Poetry and the Making of the Book’, brought together three veterans of British book-art with some new tricks
Apollo Award Winners 2013
Apollo is delighted to announce the winners of the Apollo Awards 2013
Apollo Awards: Exhibition of the Year
The Apollo Awards 2013 shortlist of the year’s most interesting and important exhibitions
Apollo Awards: Museum Opening of the Year
We are pleased to present the shortlists for the Apollo Awards 2013
Broken Engagement
Installation art is assumed to be inherently more engaging than other genres – so why are visitors so often left to watch from the wings?
In Focus
Ara Güler’s Anatolia This exhibition of work by the Turkish Armenian photographer Ara Güler looks beyond his famous snapshots of Istanbul…
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Well Met
Art and archaeology aren’t neat categories at the best of times. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they’re allowed to overlap