The Apollo Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the art and museum worlds, recognising success and rewarding ambition across historical and contemporary fields. In a world in which many museums now face serious operational challenges and art risks being conflated with luxury, Apollo commends leadership, innovation, and integrity among those individuals and institutions setting the highest standards in this sector.
Personality of the Year
Maria Balshaw
Artist of the Year
William Kentridge
Museum Opening of the Year
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Exhibition of the Year
Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Book of the Year
Carrying Off the Palaces: John Ruskin’s Lost Daguerreotypes
Ken Jacobson and Jenny Jacobson (Bernard Quaritch Ltd)
Digital Innovation of the Year
The Million Image Database
Institute for Digital Archaeology
Acquisition of the Year
The Wolsey Angels, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London