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This Saturday Apollo hosts a panel discussion at the London Art Fair on ‘Building and the Landscape in Modern British Painting’

16 Jan 2014
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Subscription Offer: Paolozzi in Apollo

‘Eduardo Paolozzi: Collaging Culture’ at Pallant House is reviewed in Apollo this month. Subscribe to receive a free copy of the accompanying book

14 Sep 2013
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Now Booking: Apollo/National Trust Event

Apollo and the National Trust present ‘Perspectives on the English Country House’

11 Sep 2013
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A specially designed vehicle transports the mummy of King Seqenenre Taa from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the new Museum of Egyptian Civilization on 3 April 2021.

In Egypt, a motorcade of mummies says more about the modern nation than the ancient past

The recent move of the royal mummies in Cairo was a made-for-TV extravaganza

Will the real William Shakespeare please stand up? The effigy above the playwright’s grave in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Is this what Shakespeare really looked like?

A dumpy effigy in a church in Stratford-upon-Avon has been mocked for centuries, but new research claims it’s the most accurate likeness of the playwright there is

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The Syrian-born, US-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his sculptural dioramas of cities ravaged by war – and offers a message of hope for the future

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Interior of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, London, photographed in 2014.

The week in art news – UK government approves Whitechapel Bell Foundry becoming a boutique hotel

Plus: NGA Washington appoints E. Carmen Ramos chief curator and more stories

Tate Britain in London.

Five artist collectives – and no individuals – shortlisted for Turner Prize

Plus: the Istanbul Biennial has been postponed to 2022, and more stories

Germany to return Benin Bronzes from 2022

Plus: Samsung heirs to donate 23,000 artworks to South Korean museums to settle tax bill, and more stories

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The Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Photo: Thomas Marks

The sad, shameful demise of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

The appeal to save Britain’s oldest place of manufacture has been rejected and the foundry will become a boutique hotel. How could Historic England have let this happen?

Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film ‘Downtown 81’ (1980–81/2000).

No, you probably can’t sell your Basquiat as an NFT

If the cancelled sale of a Basquiat NFT is anything to go by, disputes about intellectual property will affect the course of the big NFT adventure

Joseph Beuys in 1975, photographed by Caroline Tisdall.

The disappearance of Joseph Beuys

The German artist’s greatest work was himself – so marking his centenary makes for a curatorial conundrum