Apart from a few magnificent examples, most of the lions here are the migrants, exiles and refugees that Rembrandt encountered in Amsterdam during a century in which some 60 per cent of the city’s ...

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 ...

This review of Street, Palace, Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces by Jan-Werner Müller appears in the October 2026 issue of Apollo. We think we know what an architecture of totalitarianism ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. There is a red-figure ceramic vessel, dug up in southern Italy and dating to the fifth century BC, that bears the painted image of a robot. He has collapsed into ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. At the meeting of two rivers in Afghanistan’s central highlands, a brick tower rises from a narrow strip of ground. The mountains close in around it. There is no ...

A sunflower made of welded steel, a baroque architecture of beeswax, scaffolds and skeletons, pattern-making and processes of production. As much as the four nominees might be called ‘conceptual’ ...

The 16th-century physician John Caius didn’t have much time for spaniels. In De Canibus Britannicis – a milestone survey of Tudor-era dog breeds, republished after his death as Of Englishe Dogges – he ...

In 1628 the Vasa set sail from Stockholm, covered 1,300 metres and sank. The Swedish flagship, built on the order of Gustavus Adolphus, was meant to be a turning point for a navy that had recently ...

Figures from art history are supplanted by those from modern-day New York in Toor’s paintings – 19 of which make up the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Europe. Painted with Toor’s signature ...

Ian Davenport uses all manner of household tools, including watering cans, nails and electric fans, to create works that explore the physical qualities of paint. In some works, bursts of air cause ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. Fossilised dinosaur skeletons are a rare hot point in today’s otherwise tepid art market. In July, Sotheby’s New York sold Gus, an 11-metre-long, complete ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. More than 200 years before the release of Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey, a very different version of the Homeric epic became an unexpected cultural ...