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First Look: Photorealism
Katie Hall introduces ‘Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealism’ at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
First Look: Thomas Rowlandson
Kate Heard introduces ‘High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson’ at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh
First Look: Turner and the Sea
Christine Riding, Senior Curator of Arts at the Royal Museums Greenwich, introduces ‘Turner and the Sea’
First Look: Drawing Time, Reading Time
Claire Gilman introduces ‘Drawing Time, Reading Time’ at the Drawing Center in New York
First Look: Art Turning Left
Francesco Manacorda introduces ‘Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making’ at Tate Liverpool
First Look: Georgians Revealed
Moira Goff, lead curator of ‘Georgians Revealed’ at the British Library, talks to Apollo
First Look: Nur
Sabiha Al-Khemir, curator of ‘Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World’ at the Focus-Abengoa Foundation in Seville, talks to Apollo
First Look: Daumier
Catherine Lampert, curator of ‘Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, talks to Apollo
First Look: Malevich
Geurt Imanse and Bart Rutten, curators of ‘Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde’ at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, talk to Apollo
First Look: Eileen Gray
Cloé Pitiot, co-curator of ‘Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter’ at IMMA, speaks to Apollo about the inspiration she has drawn from the artist
First Look: Facing the Modern
Gemma Blackshaw, guest curator of ‘Facing the Modern: the Portrait in Vienna 1900’ at the National Gallery in London, speaks to Apollo
First Look: Shunga
Tim Clark, curator of ‘Shunga: Sex and Pleasure’ at the British Museum, speaks to Apollo
First Look: Magritte at MoMA
Anne Umland, curator of ‘Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938’ at MoMA speaks to Apollo
First Look: Canterbury and St Albans
Kristen Collins and Jeffrey Weaver introduce an exhibition of English Romanesque art which opens at the Getty on Friday
First Look: Masterpieces at the Sainsbury Centre
Curator Ian Collins introduces ‘Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia’, which opens on Saturday
First Look: Bacon/Moore at the Ashmolean
Curator Martin Harrison speaks to Apollo about ‘Flesh and Bone’, which opens on Thursday
First Look: ‘Victoriana’ at the Guildhall
In this ongoing series, Apollo previews a range of international exhibitions and hears from their curators
Why Laurie Anderson is still looking at the world sideways
The performance artist has struck an uneasy balance between fact and fiction in her work for more than five decades
Finnish lines – a new look for the Ateneum in Helsinki
Finland’s most important art museum has been completely rehung just as questions of culture and national identity are on everyone’s mind
Vermeer’s very strange way of looking at things
The painter’s works invite us to marvel at the mysteries of perception – and we will never see so many of them in the same place again
‘You have to look into the past to move forward’ – an interview with Zineb Sedira
The French-Algerian artist explains her fascination with the activism of the 1960s and why, for her, the personal really is political
First-class results in Cambridge
A new library at Magdalene College and a dining hall at Homerton make the most of modern craftsmanship
Sculpture from the scrapyard and Simone Leigh’s first museum survey – contemporary art highlights in 2023
Exhibitions to look forward to include some major retrospectives and shows that pick up where the Venice Biennale left off
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The pyramids at Giza looked very different when they were first built
The Egyptian pyramids were originally covered in smooth white limestone – as a casing stone now in Scotland shows