The discovery of a 3,000-year old city at the West Bank of Luxor creates a more nuanced picture of ancient Egyptian life
The Scottish painter Caroline Walker offers a glimpse inside her north London studio – where she’s kept company by slugs, spiders and cuddly toys
Dia Art Foundation’s support for ambitious experimental artists is as resolute as ever, its director Jessica Morgan tells Apollo
The artist recently moved into a new studio overlooking a cemetery in Hackney – the view’s great, but there is a minor mosquito problem
On the bicentenary of the poet’s birth, his art criticism still hums with outrage
Apollo’s editors pick out the shows they’re most looking forward to visiting in coming weeks
Francis Bacon’s work reveals an endless fascination with animals – and the bestial side of human nature
In 2006, Jonathan Yeo painted Prince Philip's portrait – an invigorating if at times nerve-wracking experience
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
Rakewell suspects that Leonardo would have loved the invention of film and TV, but what would he have made of Aidan Turner, aka Ross Poldark, playing him?
Two new books offer complementary perspectives – the macro and the micro – on the modern museum
An exhibition examining Black experience in America is powerful if piecemeal – and is necessarily exhausting
They may have intimidated you in the past – but you'll have to wise up to the ways of commercial galleries if you want to see any art in the UK this month
The pandemic has highlighted the need for urban projects such as the Camden Highline – and London has a long history of transforming unloved sites into havens for city dwellers
The recent move of the royal mummies in Cairo was a made-for-TV extravaganza
Agatha Christie's sleuth has been nowhere more at home than in ITV's interwar locations – their clean lines the perfect match for the punctilious Poirot
The painter’s urgent, sympathetic portraits of her fellow New Yorkers are exactly what we need in these troubled times
Yes, it's happened – a leading art collection is now available on a food delivery app
The government’s plan for a grand national jolly has been widely lampooned – but perhaps it’s just what we need
Plus: Mali and Unesco receive symbolic reparations for Timbuktu destruction, France pledges €500,000 for Sursock Museum repairs, and more stories
As a new documentary reveals, the Scottish painter braved wind, rain and Arctic ice in search of his 'rough truth'
Francis Lee’s film plays fast and loose with Mary Anning’s life – but at least it digs the great geologist out of historical obscurity
Too often arts patrons hinder the organisations they set out to help by imposing conditions on their gifts
For Katherine Parkinson's TV play about portrait sitters, Roxana Halls ‘ghost-painted’ a series of portraits – a demanding role, as they tell Apollo
