The émigrés who made Britain modern – an interview with Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley talks to Apollo about his new book looking at the Central European artists and intellectuals who fled fascism in the 1930s and came to Britain
Salzburg, a city alive with the Sound of Music
Acquisitions of the month: February 2025
Eastern icons for the Louvre and French Old Masters for the Art Institute of Chicago are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
The brave new world of Brazilian modernism
Artists were just as dedicated to the avant-garde as their peers in architecture and music, but were the results of their efforts as radical?
‘We’ve been living like this for years’ – on the fires in Southern California
Generations of residents have chosen to live in Los Angeles, perilously, but are the hazards now becoming too great?
Steven Soderbergh works wonders in London
Making Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender look good in ‘Black Bag’ isn’t exactly hard, but making one of the UK’s ugliest buildings look attractive is an act of cinematic sorcery
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The rise of performance art in Renaissance Italy
An accomplished musician as well as a painter, Lorenzo Costa was perfectly placed to capture the changing fashions and shifting social etiquette of his day
Four things to see: Television
This week marks 100 years since John Logie Baird demonstrated the first television; we explore four works that make the most out of this now-ubiquitous medium
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In the studio with… Catherine Wagner
The San Francisco-based photographer has moved into a new space, and she’s getting used to a more communal environment – but order is still all-important
In the studio with… Jakkai Siributr
The Thai textile artist prefers silence in his studio so he can listen to his thoughts – which proves tricky when his dogs are hanging around
March 2025
It’s time for the UK to act on restitution
An interview with Alex Da Corte
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Music-making in Renaissance Italy
Plus: a new golden age at Versailles, Cycladic art over the centuries, the dangers of living in Los Angeles, Tracey Emin’s passion for painting, what new EU import laws will do to the art market, and a preview of TEFAF Maastricht; with reviews of modernism in Brazil, the drawings of Henri Michaux, and the essays of Svetlana Alpers. And Tessa Hadley on Bellini’s shocking depiction of the making of a martyr
How can tech help win the battle against art crime? – a talk at TEFAF Maastricht
Apollo editor Edward Behrens chairs a panel discussion at TEFAF Maastricht on how technology can be used in the fight against art fraud
Loewe brings Mr and Mrs Albers to the catwalk
The effect of translating Anni’s textiles and Josef’s paintings to fashion is, paradoxically, a heightened appreciation for the original work
The shock of the boreal – ‘Northern Lights’ at the Fondation Beyeler, reviewed
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
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Was Milan’s remade Palazzo Citterio worth the wait?
Half a century in the making, the Brera’s dedicated home for a fine collection of 20th-century art lacks architectural coherence
Gilty pleasures – Versailles in the 21st century
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
Tate cuts 40 roles and runs budget deficit
Plus: chair of National Endowment for the Humanities steps down after presidential pressure and far-right Greek MP arrested after allegedly vandalising art in National Gallery
Manchester United builds a castle in the sky
The club has announced plans to build the biggest football stadium in the world, but can a piece of architecture really solve its ongoing identity crisis?
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
The painter who poked fun at 18th-century Paris
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
The uneasy business of being an American artist
Rachel Cohen talks to Apollo about the reissue of ‘A Chance Meeting’, her inventive account of more than a century of artistic endeavour in the United States
J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality
In this show marking 250 years since the artist’s birth, the Yale Center for British Art reflects on how the painter balanced realism with expressiveness
Pietro Maria Bardi Building, MASP
One of the most important art museums in South America unveils its brand new building this week, which doubles its exhibition space
José María Velasco: A View of Mexico
The 19th-century painter’s landscapes captured the beauty of the Valley of Mexico as well as the growth of industrial production
Jack Whitten: The Messenger
The late American artist’s vast abstract canvases, acrylic mosaics and sculptures inspired by Black history go on display at MoMA
What would Jane Austen say?
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating