From the June 2026 issue of Apollo. Anyone with a passing interest in cricket will know about the 1981 Ashes series, remembered chiefly for the third test at Headingley, in which Ian Botham dragged ...

From the March 2026 issue of Apollo. In the cultural and artistic history of Vienna, Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein is not a name that often springs to mind. But in around 1675 he published a ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. Art Basel Paris is the smallest fair in the Art Basel roster, but it still dominates the French capital. This month more than 200 exhibitors of modern and ...

From the April 2026 issue of Apollo. In a gouache and gold miniature from Safavid Iran, Lovers in a Landscape (c. 1510), four couples in a garden are engaged in the refined pursuits of embracing, ...

Senior Editor, Apollo Isabella Smith’s interest in craft began while working as a research assistant for a collector of British art pottery. After a master’s in art history at the Courtauld Institute ...

Cl assical art is a heritage of loss. The great majority of the works of art produced in ancient Greece and Rome no longer survive. Paintings have rotted, crumbled or burned. Marble statues were ...

Over the course of her career, Tacita Dean has worked to discover new expressive possibilities for analogue film, by treating it not as a technology but a medium akin to painting or sculpture. With ...

We have all become suddenly more aware of the moments when we cannot avoid touching elements of public buildings. Architecture is the most physical, most imposing and most present of the arts – you ...

In 1781, the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–83) cut a strange figure. A decade before, he had been an artist at the heart of Viennese high society. Poised to become professor of sculpture at ...

On the morning of Saturday 14 December aficionados of Renaissance art gathered alongside local dignitaries inside the modest church of Santi Giuseppe e Lucia in the sleepy Tuscan hamlet of Montaione, ...

In 1972 the British Museum’s display of 50 objects from the tomb of King Tutankhamun attracted 1.6 million visitors, and became the paradigm for the blockbuster exhibition as an unmissable, ...

From the February 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I meet Miquel Barceló in the sterile surroundings of a hotel foyer in December, in the far south-east corner of Spain. On an empty ...