The painters who made a great play for the stage
An understanding of theatrical culture in the 18th century is vital for understanding the most important painters of the period
An understanding of theatrical culture in the 18th century is vital for understanding the most important painters of the period
The reinvention of the Museum of Childhood as Young V&A has been a great success. Should more institutions follow its example and become younger at heart?
An old-fashioned way of bringing in cakes and custards is beginning to feel rather modern again
The Library of Congress’s Literary Costume Ball has set Rakewell thinking about the pros and cons of taking sartorial inspiration from famous authors
An exhibition in Vienna tackles the involvement of Jewish players in some of Europe’s oldest clubs – and how those clubs acknowledge this history
The Getty Center makes a case for the critic and photographer’s important role in the development of art history in his home country
A new breed of business is offering investors shares in blue-chip artworks – and making big claims about their profitability
On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, we consider the history of exploration through four objects including a map of sea monsters and a robot used for navigation
The vintage trucks in London’s parks provide soft serve with an outsize dollop of nostalgia – and do it in style
Finland’s questing version of modernism, as championed by Alvar Aalto, went hand in hand with the development of social democracy
The first garden created by the designer for a house by Edwin Lutyens has been bought by the National Trust – preserving a vital piece of history
From the September 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I first encountered William McTaggart’s The Storm (1890) when I was a student of fine art in Edinburgh in the 1970s. This is how I wanted to paint. I was in awe of the energetic brushwork, the vivid colour and the artist’s ability to […]
Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats
The Eye Filmmuseum highlights the madness of the director’s methods and how beautiful the finished films are – and leaves us to make up our own minds about it all
The Scottish painter who has long treated book covers as blank canvases is now also working on a much bigger scale
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been immortalised in bronze, but it leaves a bad taste in Rakewell’s mouth
The mansion block has often reconciled Londoners who can’t afford actual mansions to the realities of apartment-living
John Guy, curator of an exhibition of early Buddhist art at the Met, tells Apollo how the new religion transformed art in India
With deceptively rickety creations that conceal the care that went into their making, the artist wittily questions our ideas about craft
Before the gal who has everything got into pink, her ideal home was a shrine to midcentury modern living