Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions will be published in the January 2023 issue British Museum More than 300 Chinese works from the collection of Joseph Hotung Joseph Hotung’s name has been attached to the British Museum’s Chinese and South Asian antiquities since he donated millions for its renovation back in 1992. […]
ArtCentrica Founded in March by Florentine digital-imaging company Centrica, this start-up is seeking to transform the way that art is taught in schools and universities. With more than 6,000 works, which trace the story of art from Ancient Egypt to the present, the software provides a one-stop shop for teachers and students. Ars Publicata Launched […]
Francis Alÿs Francis Alÿs’s projects spanning installation, video, painting, and drawing pursue anthropological and geopolitical concerns by sending up the rituals of everyday life. The Nature of the Game, the artist’s presentation for Belgium’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, demonstrated the disruptive, often transformative, quality of games in short films and small-scale paintings depicting scenes […]
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Richelieu, Paris Reopened September 2022 After a 12-year, €250m restoration of the 18th-century site, the museum now displays 900 objects (out of a collection of some 40 million). Literary attractions include Victor Hugo’s manuscripts and a copy of In Search of Lost Time marked up by Proust, as well as […]
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss Getty Research Institute By looking at paintings, prints, medals, sculptures and ship designs – some of which have never been published before – this ground-breaking study leaves Versailles for the docks of Marseille, where the French […]
This year’s list of the most talented young people working in the Asia Pacific art world
The South Korean artist discusses how his art delves into the uncertain spaces between the digital realm and reality
The new executive director of Para Site tells Apollo about his plans for Hong Kong's oldest non-profit arts space
The founder of Nova Contemporary, one of Bangkok’s leading art galleries, discusses her mission to bring Thai artists international acclaim
The founding director of Bellas Artes Projects explains how she came to create one of the Philippines' most vivid arts organisations
London
Melbourne
Seoul
Tokyo
Beijing
Ho Chi Minh City
Hong Kong
New York
Independent curator, Seoul
Writer and curator, Bandung
Curatorial collective, Bangkok/Yogyakarta/Manila/ Seoul/Berlin/Santa Barbara
Founder, Symbioses, Ho Chi Minh City
