Museum Opening of the Year
Casa Balla, Rome Opened June 2021 For nearly 30 years, from 1929 until his death in 1958, Giacomo Balla lived…
Book of the Year
A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 Mark Girouard Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The eminent architectural…
Artist of the Year
Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey has been making his compelling photographic portraits for five decades. Ranging from images of Harlem in…
Digital Innovation of the Year
Digital Violence This website presents the findings of Forensic Architecture’s investigation into the use of the malware Pegasus, made by…
Acquisition of the Year
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions will be published in the December 2021 issue Château de Versailles…
Bamana Mud Cloth: From Mali to the World
The Dallas Museum of Art explores the symbolism of the intricately patterned cloths known as ‘bogolanfini’
Painting Apart from the World: Monks and Scholars of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
A collection of Chinese masterpieces gets its first European outing at the Musée Cernuschi
Rubens: Picturing Antiquity
The Getty Villa explores the Flemish painter’s debt to the classical world
Peru: A Journey in Time
The British Museum charts the history of Andean cultures across some 3,000 years
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
The British artist has always treated identity as a slippery thing, as this retrospective at the Guggenheim makes clear
Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City
The Frist Art Museum explores how the Italian city blossomed during the Middle Ages
The Solly Collection, 1821–2021: Founding the Berlin Gemäldegalerie
The English merchant Edward Solly’s prodigious collecting formed the basis of Berlin’s great picture gallery
Hogarth and Europe
This exhibition at Tate Britain compares the English painter to his continental contemporaries
Jens Adolf Jerichau
The Louisiana pays tribute to a modernist artist who died young, but had a lasting influence on Danish painting
En Scène! Costume Designs from the Edmond de Rothschild Collection
The Louvre presents a spectacular collection of costume designs for entertainments at the French court
Signac the Collector
The French painter’s collection of masterpieces by his friends and idols has been reassembled by the Musée d’Orsay
Late Constable
The Royal Academy explores how the painter’s style became looser and more expressive in the last 12 years of his life
Petrit Halilaj: Very volcanic over this green feather
In Cornwall, the artist’s first UK solo show revisits the drawings he created as a teenager after being displaced by the Kosovo War
Women in Abstraction
Works by more than 100 artists at the Guggenheim Bilbao offer an expanded version of the story of abstract art
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
This transatlantic survey of the Surrealist’s work begins in Bern – the city where she spent her last 30 years
Denver Art Museum
Gio Ponti’s fortress-like building reopens after renovations, with more room for the museum’s encyclopaedic collections
Sutapa Biswas: Lumen
A survey of the artist’s work at Kettle’s Yard, from anti-racist activism of the 1980s to more recent meditations on community
Scandinavian Design & USA: People, Encounters and Ideas, 1890–1980
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm explores how Scandinavian craft aesthetics crossed over to the States
Van Gogh and the Olive Groves
The artist’s late depictions of olive trees – on show at the Dallas Museum of Art – are among his most impassioned paintings
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