The UAE’s art market is on the up
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
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
One of history’s most mysterious political paintings might hold lessons for our own time – if we could make out the meaning
Depictions of Christ’s ascent to heaven often manage to be both deadly serious and upliftingly silly
It was the painter’s misfortune to be surrounded by writers whose accounts of her have been too dominant for too long
The French artist believed in his paintings being stylistically uniform and infinitely replicable – an idea that, a century on, has not done him any favours
Though museums use them to provide more information, QR codes can conceal as much as they reveal
Collectors of ceramics marking great battles, royal weddings and even Acts of Parliament are rare but dedicated
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