Exhibition of the Year

‘Donatello: the Renaissance’ at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

1 Dec 2022

Book of the Year

‘English Garden Eccentrics’ by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

1 Dec 2022

Museum Opening of the Year

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

1 Dec 2022

Digital Innovation of the Year

Art UK Sculpture

1 Dec 2022

Artist of the Year

Faith Ringgold

1 Dec 2022

Acquisitions of the Month: November 2022

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a grumpy woman and an elaborate art nouveau tea set once owned by Karl Lagerfeld are among this month’s highlights

1 Dec 2022
The Rich Glutton (1836), Josef Danhauser. Collection Rudolf Arthaber

The Belvedere. 300 Years a Place of Art

A display in Vienna charts the history of one of the world’s first public museums

25 Nov 2022

Horror in the Modernist Block

Contemporary artists explore the fearful potential of architecture at Ikon gallery in Birmingham

25 Nov 2022

Helen Frankenthaler: Painterly Constellations

The American abstract painter’s soak-stain canvases and vivid works on paper get their first showing in Germany for more than 20 years

25 Nov 2022
Panel with royal woman, (detail; c. 795), K'in Lama Chauk and Jun Nat Omootz. Cleveland Museum of Art

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art

The Met celebrates the inventiveness with which ancient Maya artists depicted the life cycles of their gods

25 Nov 2022

Exhibition of the Year

Donatello: the Renaissance Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence 19 March–31 July With some 130 works, this was…

25 Nov 2022
Acquisition of the year shortlist

Acquisition of the Year

Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions will be published in the January 2023 issue British Museum More…

25 Nov 2022

Digital Innovation of the Year

ArtCentrica Founded in March by Florentine digital-imaging company Centrica, this start-up is seeking to transform the way that art is…

25 Nov 2022
Artist of the year

Artist of the Year

Francis Alÿs Francis Alÿs’s projects spanning installation, video, painting, and drawing pursue anthropological and geopolitical concerns by sending up the…

25 Nov 2022
Apollo Awards 2022 museum shortlist

Museum Opening of the Year

Bibliothèque nationale de France – Richelieu, Paris Reopened September 2022 After a 12-year, €250m restoration of the 18th-century site, the…

25 Nov 2022

Book of the Year

The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss Getty…

24 Nov 2022
(detail; 1927), Max Beckmann. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.

Max Beckmann – Departure

A show in Munich explores how the German modernist captured the upheavals of his war-torn era

18 Nov 2022
A Handsome Couple (detail;2022), Rose Wylie.

Rose Wylie: picky people notice…

The British painter’s characterful figures go on show at S.M.A.K. in Ghent

18 Nov 2022
Cleopatra Dying (1859), Henri Baron de Triqueti.

The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture

The Henry Moore Institute considers how the 19th-century vogue for polychrome sculpture reflected the rapid social changes of the era

18 Nov 2022

Guido Reni

Celebrating the baroque painter’s divine gift for religious imagery

18 Nov 2022
Les fumées sur les toits (1911–12), Fernand Léger. Triton Collection Foundation.

Fernand Léger and the Rooftops of Paris

How smoke and chimneys inspired the French Cubist to take a more experimental approach to making art

11 Nov 2022
Virgin Reading (c. 1510), Vittore Carpaccio. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice

The Renaissance painter’s talent for story-telling is the focus of this retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

11 Nov 2022
Abakan Orange (1971), Magdalena Abakanowicz. Tate.

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope

The Polish artist’s monumental woven sculptures get the spotlight at Tate Modern

11 Nov 2022
The Eclipse of the Sun (detail; 1926), Georg Grosz. Huckster Museum of Art, New York

The Glitter and Poison of the Twenties: George Grosz in Berlin

The German artist’s visceral satires of 1920s Berlin go on show in Stuttgart

11 Nov 2022