Apollo Event: A Closer Look at National Trust Collections (7 July)
Join us at Chelsea Old Town Hall for our latest event with the National Trust
Editor’s Letter: Youth and experience
It’s vital that young scholars and writers have institutional support. Apollo is pleased to announce a new writing prize with Lund Humphries
Cover Story: June Apollo
Alexander Pope seems to live on in Roubiliac’s magnificent portrait bust, as if the man and his mind somehow inhabited the marble
Apollo Event: ‘Why Collect?’ Panel discussion (Friday 6 June)
Please join us at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair for a discussion between experts
Cover Story: May Apollo
A young Jackson Pollock, inspired by Michelangelo, made the copper tondo on Apollo’s May issue cover
Editor’s Letter: Culture Secretaries
The new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, must be as visible as possible at arts venues in the coming months
Editor’s Letter: Italian museums are showing the strain
In his April Editor’s Letter, Thomas Marks asks ‘Was there ever a golden age for Italian Museums?’
Cover Story: April Apollo
Our April cover features a photograph of Matisse. He is ensconced in cut-out design, intent on working the line
Grayson Perry wins 25th Critics’ Circle Annual Award
Grayson Perry is the first visual artist to receive the honour. He must be getting used to making that claim.
Rob and Nick Carter at The Fine Art Society: TEFAF 2014
Rob and Nick Carter’s harnessing of digital media encourages us to look at art more closely
Editor’s Letter: Two Jewel Boxes
Following MoMA’s expansion plans, is it time to ask whether large museums should look beyond themselves?
Cover Story: March Apollo
All eyes on the Mauritshuis… a striking detail from Rembrandt’s ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp’ features on this month’s cover
Editor’s Letter: Public Gestures
Should the public have a say in exhibition programming? The MFA in Boston seems to think so…
Cover Story: February Apollo
Our February cover ties in with Katy Barrett’s feature article on the resurgent interest in the cabinet of curiosities…
Apollo Event
This Saturday Apollo hosts a panel discussion at the London Art Fair on ‘Building and the Landscape in Modern British Painting’
12 Days
New biographies of Whistler and Piero della Francesca, and Mike Leigh’s biopic of J.M.W. Turner promise to show each artist in a new light next year
Apollo Award Winners 2013
Apollo is delighted to announce the winners of the Apollo Awards 2013
From the Editor
Reports of the death of print magazines have been exaggerated. All the same, no magazine can afford to rest on its laurels
Snap Happy
At the State Hermitage Museum earlier this summer, I spent some time watching the visitors. Many were in large tour…
Tsar attractions – English silver at the Russian court
Early modern visitors to Moscow often brought silver to the tsar – which is why the Kremlin Armoury Museum holds a remarkable collection of pre-Restoration English silver
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Editor’s Letter: Connoisseurship now
Has the time come for a revival of connoisseurship?