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Review: Mark Neville’s Helmand Work at the IWM London

Mark Neville’s films and photographs from Afghanistan reveal the strange banality of war

13 Aug 2014

Gallery: ‘Landscape, abstracted’ at the MFA Boston

For centuries, painters have experimented with the landscape. Where will today’s artists venture next?

12 Aug 2014

Review: ‘Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–15’ at LACMA

After three formative years in Berlin, Hartley returned to the US at the forefront of the avant-garde

11 Aug 2014

Gallery: ‘East of the Wallace Line’ at Yale University Art Gallery

Art from Indonesia and New Guinea goes on show at the Yale University Art Gallery

9 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 9 August

A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room

9 Aug 2014

Stanley Spencer’s Masterpiece: The Sandham Memorial Chapel

Love him or hate him, Stanley Spencer’s First World War paintings at Burghclere will win you over

8 Aug 2014

A good advert for American art? Art Everywhere in the US

Can art add sparkle to the USA’s advertising billboards?

6 Aug 2014

The Hague’s Hidden Treasures: Prince William V’s Picture Gallery

Not all of the Mauritshuis’s treasures are actually in the Mauritshuis

3 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 2 August

40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays

2 Aug 2014

The Apollo Podcast July/August: The Imperial War Museum Reopens

Thomas Marks, Diane Lees and David Boyd Haycock discuss the role of art in commemorating the First World War

1 Aug 2014

Acquisitions of the Month: July

Deaccessioning is in the news, but what of the museums that have been acquiring new work?

31 Jul 2014

Edinburgh Art Festival: what not to miss

Heading to Edinburgh? Here are six fine art exhibitions to visit while you’re out there…

30 Jul 2014

The Rodin Gift to the V&A: a centenary celebration

In 1914 Auguste Rodin gifted 18 sculptures to the V&A, in tribute to the British soldiers fighting alongside his own countrymen in the First World War

29 Jul 2014

Apollo 40 Under 40: The Artists

Try making a list of 10 outstanding young artists, all based in Europe, and whose work already announces their original talent but also bears the promise of longevity. Where would you start?

28 Jul 2014

Marsden Hartley

The German Paintings   The American modernist Marsden Hartley spent three formative years in Berlin from 1913–15. This exhibition features…

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Gallery: ‘Disobedient Objects’ at the V&A

What to expect from a museum show dedicated to the ingenious objects produced by protest groups

23 Jul 2014

Magnus Renfrew to leave Art Basel for Bonhams Asia

Renfrew, who set up Art HK (now Art Basel in Hong Kong) in 2008, will start at Bonhams this September as Deputy Chairman, Asia

22 Jul 2014

Out of time: ‘Digital Revolution’ at the Barbican

How is the rapidly changing world of digital technology affecting culture?

22 Jul 2014

Irish Cabinet reshuffle puts two newcomers in charge of the arts

Can Heather Humphreys, the new Minister for Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, effectively steer her rather neglected department?

21 Jul 2014

Gallery: ‘Discovering Tutankhamun’ at the Ashmolean Museum

Tutankhamun’s 20th-century fame. Highlights from the Ashmolean Museum’s summer exhibition.

20 Jul 2014

Review: Mel Bochner ‘Strong Language’ at the Jewish Museum

Bochner’s piled-up word paintings at the Jewish Museum are strangely anxiety-provoking

19 Jul 2014

The Week’s Muse: 19 July

Should photography be allowed in museums? Are the decorative arts in decline? Would you download a work of art?

19 Jul 2014

Lasting Legacies: the reopening of the IWM London

With a new atrium designed by Norman Foster, IWM London reopens this month following major refurbishment

16 Jul 2014

Review: ‘Giulio Paolini: To Be or Not to Be’ at the Whitechapel Gallery

Paolini’s work isn’t well known in the UK, but it remains as relevant as ever

15 Jul 2014