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Tigray’s people and their heritage urgently need protecting, says Jacopo Gnisci
‘The Art School is, at the end of the day, one of the very best buildings of the early 20th century anywhere in the world’
‘As the sittings went on he started to throw curveballs at me’ – Jonathan Yeo on painting Prince Philip’s portrait
Edward Hopper defined the experience of modern New York but never felt quite at home in the high-rise city, writes Morgan Falconer
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Celebrating the careers of two pioneering Renaissance women – the Apollo art diary pick of the week, opening today
Why the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City is one of the world's greatest museums
It's Monet's birthday! See his work alongside Daubigny and Van Gogh at the apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/exhi Born #onthisday 1840
This depiction of Devi, the Great Goddess, is thought to be one of the very oldest Pahari paintings – on show at the newly opened exhibition apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/seei
'Here was a character who nudged a continental sophistication towards the dinner-party tables of Middle England' – Thomas Marks on Keith Floyd
Browse our podcast episodes – interviews with art-world figures including William Kentridge, Russell Tovey and more apollo-magazine.com/category/podca
Access all areas – a handy list of museums and archives that have released high resolution images into the public domain
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Gavin Stamp, Apollo’s architecture columnist since 2004 – and one of the most lucid, knowledgeable and defiant architecture critics of his or any generation.
If shops can reopen in April, why can’t museums?
The actor and writer Mark Gatiss discusses his new film on the English artist John Minton
#Onthisday in 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time.
Benedict Cumberbatch is currently filming a biopic of the Edwardian artist Louis Wain with some impressively furry fellow cast members
Vivienne Westwood’s favourite museum was the Wallace Collection, and her clothes were full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard #fromthearchives
A handy list of museums and other archives that provide unrestricted downloads of high-resolution images
Why has there been a sudden spate of spectacular finds at Pompeii?
Barnard Castle, located some 250 miles from London, has long attracted visually attentive visitors
'In my 25-year career as a museum director, I have not seen a more challenging time to be an arts leader' – director Kaywin Feldman on the need for agile cultural leadership in a volatile world apollo-magazine.com/kaywin-feldman
'There are not too many exhibitions that can be truly described as a "once in a generation" opportunity...This is one of them.' apollo-magazine.com/stepping-out-i
In his bicentenary year, the Scottish architect Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson should be getting more attention buff.ly/2olAbid
For the future of scholarship, the National Art Library must be protected
The Apollo art diary pick of the week – Edvard Munch plumbs the depths of emotion in his woodcuts and lithographs
Norway's answer to Turner? Peder Balke's spectacular landscape paintings apollo-magazine.com/peder-balkes-a
The eye-opening Pergamon exhibition at the is in the running for our Exhibition of the Year award buff.ly/2fSkl8t
. has purchased a rare still-life by Balthasar van der Ast, one of only two known Dutch paintings from the 17th century to show a solitary tulip. apollo-magazine.com/acquisitions-o
Four watercolours by Sylvia Pankhurst, recording the working conditions of women in various industries in 1907, are among the ’s recent acquisitions apollo-magazine.com/acquisitions-o
Listen: in a new Apollo podcast, Mark Gatiss discusses his lifelong fascination with the painter John Minton ahead of the release of his film, John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art on @BBCFOUR apollo-magazine.com/the-apollo-pod
A forgotten Portuguese modernist finally has her moment
This 3,000-year-old gold pendant, or bulla, was found in Shropshire by a detectorist in 2018. It’s now in the collection of apollo-magazine.com/acquisitions-o
England's cathedrals are extraordinary. We must be prepared to look after them
Three masterpieces exemplify three crucial stages in Caravaggio's career at the , opening tomorrow apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/cara #ArtDiary
Christo has died at the age of 84. With his partner, Jeanne-Claude, he wrapped the Reichstag and the Pont Neuf – and was working on a project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe later this year. Claire Barliant interviewed him for the March issue of Apollo.
We will never defeat the notion that art is the preserve of the privileged, if we stop people from learning about it
‘It will be a rare visitor who...does not come away wishing that they too could live in a house by the sea with no phone or electricity.’ Tom Fleming on ‘Charmed Lives in Greece’ at the
The Rothschild Pentateuch is among our picks of new works that have recently entered public collections apollo-magazine.com/acquisitions-o
Congratulations to Lubaina Himid, Apollo's Artist of the Year 2017! apollo-magazine.com/artist-of-the- #ApolloAwards
Explore South African art, from pre-history to cutting-edge contemporary, at the buff.ly/2eypgg9 #ArtDiary
Living in interesting times – the Hittites after the collapse of empire
The Surrender of Breda (c. 1635), 'that masterful prospectus for clemency', is one of the Prado museum’s many masterpieces by Diego Velázquez, who died #OTD in 1660 apollo-magazine.com/museo-nacional
Roman painters did not often train their daughters to be artists, making Artemisia Gentileschi one of the few Roman women of the period to receive professional training from her father
Side Gallery () is a champion of documentary photography, strongly rooted in the local area, and deserves all the support it can get
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An exhibition at the Whitney explores Edward Hopper’s life-long fascination with New York, plus more from Apollo's art diary
Fit for a queen: Marie Antoinette’s private theatre at Versailles has been splendidly restored
The tomb of Rome’s first emperor at last reveals its secrets
'The vast dish of the Lovell Telescope – 250 feet in diameter – rises over the Cheshire landscape like the baptismal font of the British space age' apollo-magazine.com/jodrell-bank-u
A first for the Frick () and a Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay () are among the most important works to enter museum collections this month
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Has anything changed since the Guerrilla Girls first spoke out about gender disparities in museums and galleries in the 1980s?
Today's the last chance to see ‘A Tale of Two Women Painters’ , previewed in Apollo here
The plan to cut 37 out of 128 museum and collections posts in Glasgow will hold back the city’s cultural institutions for years to come apollo-magazine.com/glasgow-counci
A rediscovered panorama captures London in 1815, on the eve of the peace with France
The Side Gallery in Newcastle is too important to stay closed, writes apollo-magazine.com/side-gallery-c
A paean to power-station cooling towers – by . From the March 2020 issue of Apollo, on sale now
. condemns the plans to build a towering folly on top of Liverpool Street Station apollo-magazine.com/liverpool-stre
The cathedrals of England are among our nation’s principal glories. As a nation, we must be prepared to pay for them
Louise Nicholson reviews a small but perfectly formed show at the exploring images of divinity in 17th- and 18th-century court paintings in north India
The Roman emperor Trajan was born #OnThisDay in 53 AD. Here's what Tristram Hunt had to say about the V&A's recently renewed Cast Courts, in which Trajan's Column is a star exhibit
The great Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh died #OnThisDay in 1928. RIBA examined his architectural drawings in an exhibition in 2015
A taste of the Mediterranean, courtesy of Elizabeth David and John Minton
Tigray’s people and their heritage urgently need protecting, says Jacopo Gnisci
Creatures real and mythical populate the pages of the medieval bestiary – the subject of the Apollo art diary pick of the week
‘Three finished works that are among the most ravishing essays in light and colour ever to have been produced by a landscape painter’ – Andrew Wilton on Turner’s views of Mount Rigi
The first women artists in Britain get their due in this exhibition curated by
The Met's 'Delacroix' show is a chance to see less familiar works – such as this recently cleaned painting from the Parisian church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis apollo-magazine.com/delacroix-amer
Hilary Mantel knows her Tudor art inside out – and returns the emotion to it
The latest episode of the Apollo 40 under 40 podcast is out now – with on cartoons, collecting, and lots more
Born in Crete, El Greco (‘the Greek’) died in Toledo #OTD in 1614. Later this year a major survey of his work will open at the Grand Palais apollo-magazine.com/beyond-the-blo
The French pioneer of photography Louis Daguerre was born #OTD in 1787. From our archives, here's Gavin Stamp on photography's early history – in Edinburgh, not Paris
‘It was the Great Fire that allowed the scientist Christopher Wren to emerge as an architect’ – from our archives, Gavin Stamp on the London buildings designed by Wren (who was born #OTD in 1632)
The English architect John Soane died #OnThisDay in 1837. You can visit his apartments in London apollo-magazine.com/sir-john-soane
The Flemish baroque painter Michaelina Wautier is finally getting her due this summer, but it has taken the curator of the exhibition 25 years to get her here.
Late medieval gold is vanishingly rare, so a metal detectorist’s recent discovery in the Midlands may be a truly spectacular find, writes Christina Faraday
For Pablo Picasso, Notre-Dame exemplified an idea of ‘eternal France’
‘I'm trying to erase myself’ – an interview with Cindy Sherman
A show of dazzling, rare work by the Spanish Renaissance painter Bartolomé Bermejo opens today at the
Sandro Botticelli died #onthisday in 1510. There's a major exhibition of his work currently open at the buff.ly/2qQKAE7
The postponed Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition will now open at the on 3 October. In the meantime, here's curator Letizia Treves on how to get your fix of Artemisia remotely
Don't miss a quartet of Van Gogh's irises and roses at the - closing this week apollo-magazine.com/agenda/van-gog
Dorothea Tanning's surrealist depiction of her much-loved pooch Katchina has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland apollo-magazine.com/acquisitions-o
We need more TV shows like the BBC’s ‘Art of France’ buff.ly/2kzaWXS
‘Sicily: Culture and Conquest’ ends soon. Here’s Jeremy Johns on the island’s greatest achievement
The looks at the incredible influence WWI had on the visual arts - from prints to 'trench art' buff.ly/2vY5UqG #ArtDiary
‘All the empiricism Leonardo displayed through images and words was sealed in a Christian envelope’
Turner Prize nominee Lubaina Himid is Apollo's 2017 artist of the year apollo-magazine.com/artist-of-the- #TurnerPrize
Plans to plonk a massive office block on top of Liverpool Street Station’s glass roof are as dreadful as they sound, writes apollo-magazine.com/liverpool-stre
‘Charles I: King and Collector’ has won the Apollo Exhibition of the Year Award 2018. Read more about this major act of historical reconstruction
Canaletto's highly 'creative' views of Venice still shape our perception of the city. buff.ly/2sdSl4X
It’s the final week to catch this exhibition centred on Fra Angelico (an Apollo art diary pick) apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/fra-
The Great Fire of London started #onthisday in 1666. Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise...