From the November 2026 issue of Apollo. Through the second half of the 20th century, Ernst and Hildy Beyeler amassed one of the world’s finest private collections of modern art, comprising more than ...

‘A desert between two roaring seas’ is how Hans Christian Andersen described Skagen, a small town on the northernmost tip of Denmark, when he visited in 1859. He was not alone in being drawn to the ...

‘It’s a decorative art, it’s more than fashion’ – Francesca Galloway talks about collecting couture A leading dealer in Indian paintings and textiles, she also has an extensive collection of ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. In 1974 John Ashbery published a collection, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which made him the most celebrated American poet of his generation. The book’s ...

For 40 years, the Fondation Cartier has been moving closer to the heart of Paris. Its first home was in the south-western suburb of Jouy-en-Josas, in a 19th-century chateau set in a 14-hectare park.

Ye Ying is a leading Chinese contemporary art and cultural critic, and has been Editor-in-Chief of The Art Newspaper China since its foundation in 2013. Previously, she was the Arts Editor at Chinese ...

Success and fame, if they come to an artist at all, usually arrive by one of two routes. Either their work suddenly captures the moment, chiming with current cultural trends or concepts; or else an ...

From the October 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Giovanni Antonio Canal’s paintings are immediately recognisable but rarely set pulses racing. That changed this summer, when a ...

The film director David Lynch has died at the age of 78. After the release of his first film, Eraserhead, in 1977, Lynch became known for making films and television – most notably Mulholland Drive ...

From the January 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The long-anticipated opening of the first exhibition at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, in Edo State, southern ...

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 ...