Lockdown may have allowed the museum to fast-forward renovations, but it has also confirmed that the galleries are nothing without the public
This August marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in America
Built to give thanks for Venice’s deliverance from the plague, the church of Il Redentore remains the centre of an annual festival marking the event
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What does it mean to make cinema – and film directors in particular – the subject of museum exhibitions?
Rakewell celebrates the return of roller coasters – with no screaming allowed – by looking back at some of the earliest white knuckle rides
The activist, educator and artist discusses a lifetime spent fighting for racial justice – and the role that images can play in this struggle
Photographs by Gordon Parks and a panoramic painting by Dale Lewis feature amid an unusually plentiful offering in London this summer
As museums and galleries in the UK reopen, Apollo’s editors pick out the exhibitions they’re most looking forward to visiting
Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s four-volume treatise, newly translated and edited, deserves to be more widely read
As we debate public statues, it’s worth revisiting the revolution in portrait sculpture that made many of them seem so animated and direct
The public library has survived and even thrived through historical crises, but how will it recover from the coronavirus pandemic?
The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy breathed new life into this ancient material in the 1940s – and it’s time it made another comeback
Register now for the first event in our ‘Museums of the Mind’ series – Mat Collishaw, Shoair Mavlian and Bill Sherman in conversation with Fatema Ahmed about ‘Photography and the Museum’
Plus: Roselyne Bachelot named France's new culture minister, outdoor performances to resume in England, and more art news
The shop window has long been a playground for artists – and looks set to be so more than ever in the months ahead
How have art businesses coped with the crisis – and what might they look like post-lockdown?
Rowan Moore and Tamsin Dillon consider how the events of 2020 might transform our relationship with public space
The director of the National Gallery on what visitors can expect when the museum reopens – and how, while it’s been closed, it has been rethinking its relationship with its audience
The encounter between Mary Magdalene and the risen Christ has challenged the artists who have chosen to represent it
While Apollo’s roving correspondent is more than ready to go to the pub, he can’t help wondering if it will all end in Hogarthian tears
Monuments to the American Civil War have locked in place partial versions of the past – but other stories will emerge when we know more about how and why they were erected
Five decades of drawings by Giuseppe Penone and a dazzling drunkard by Joaquin Sorolla are among this month’s highlights
The role of leading Anglo-Jewish figures in the development of the fledgling museum deserves to be better known
