The fine art of magazine advertising
A look back at Apollo's commercial pages through the decades reveals shifts in consumer tastes – as well as some distinctly quirky offerings
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
The vast sculpture park in upstate New York is reopening after an ambitious expansion that is planting the seeds of its future success
The sculptor’s grotesque figures and expressive faces reflect us back to ourselves in uncomfortable and witty ways
With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for attention in the city during Frieze and TEFAF, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows not to miss
The plan to redesign the Sainsbury Wing for the museum’s bicentenary soon morphed into a comprehensive rehang. How well does it succeed?
At Monk’s House, a 17th-century weatherboard house that the Woolfs bought in 1919, the author found the freedom to write some of her greatest works
Two exhibitions for the German painter’s 80th birthday show his great range, from maximalist masterpieces to surprisingly intimate works
This show at the Met celebrates more than two centuries of Black apparel – and remembers the hardships endured by even the nattiest of dressers