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The birth of Impressionism and the centenary of Surrealism – major art anniversaries in 2024
The marking of two seminal movements and a year-long celebration of Caspar David Friedrich combine scholarly heft with popular appeal
Old Masters prove lacklustre at auction – but a late medieval painter is golden
A newly attributed Rembrandt failed to hit the heights at Sotheby’s, but Pietro Lorenzetti pushed up the bidding in Paris
Acquisition of the Year
Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Acquisition of the Year Award commends the best museum acquisitions of the past 12 months
The week in art news – Australian museums to receive major funding boost
Plus: Kwame Brathwaite (1938–2023), John Leighton to depart National Galleries of Scotland, and the rest of the week’s top stories
In Lausanne, a lively new museum district has finally arrived
The Plateforme 10 project has brought the city’s fine arts, design and photo museums together on the site of a former train yard
On its 300th birthday, the Belvedere reflects on a remarkably complicated past
Built as a residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Vienna museum with a tangled history is now a home for Old Masters and modern art
The world’s richest man makes quite an impression
The luxury conglomerate led by the French tycoon presented a Caillebotte to the Musée d’Orsay this week, but that didn’t stop him being denounced by pension protesters
Progress report – the Huntington reckons with its past and looks to the future
The Gilded Age institution renowned for its Eurocentric holdings is re-evaluating its history and winning over a wider audience
The week in art news – former head of the Louvre investigated for money laundering and organised fraud
Plus: the art dealer Inigo Philbrick has been sentenced to seven years in prison | The new French culture minister is Rima Abdul Malak
The week in art news – Metropolitan Museum of Art to remove Sackler name from its galleries
Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts
The failed Italian revolutionary who dedicated himself to Asian art
After his failure in politics, Henri Cernuschi succeeded in finance – and left an outstanding collection of Asian art to his adoptive city of Paris
With its return to Chelsea, Dia is having a New York moment
Dia Art Foundation’s support for ambitious experimental artists is as resolute as ever, its director Jessica Morgan tells Apollo
The week in art news – German culture minister calls for national strategy on Benin Bronzes
The German culture minister, Monika Grütters, has called a meeting next month of museums and states to form ‘a national…
Remembering Christopher Monkhouse (1947–2021), a renowned curator for whom collecting was a way of life
Christopher Monkhouse transformed the decorative arts holdings at major museums in Providence, Minneapolis and Chicago, and built his own remarkable collections of books and drawings – and friends
Rooms of their own – the female collectors who reshaped French society
The collecting of women has often been regarded as mere shopping, but the efforts of both princesses and professional artists are now receiving their rightful dues
Acquisition of the Year
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions is published in the December 2020 issue Art Fund Prospect Cottage,…
The week in art news – the Whitney cancels ‘Collective Actions’ exhibition after criticism
On Tuesday, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York cancelled a planned exhibition of artworks created in recent months ‘in response to…
The Jewish collectors who gave important early gifts to the V&A
The role of leading Anglo-Jewish figures in the development of the fledgling museum deserves to be better known
Absentee party – the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston turns 150
As the museum passes an important milestone with its doors shut, Glenn Adamson considers what its collection has meant to him over the years
‘This is the moment to reach out to our Dutch public’ – Emilie Gordenker on the reopening of the Van Gogh Museum
The museum’s director talks about how the institution can best serve its audience in challenging times
Chris Grayling, culture vulture – and NPG trustee
The former transport secretary has been appointed as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery – so he must be a museum fanatic, right?
Texas star – at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
The museum, which boasts one of the leading encyclopaedic collections in the US, has reopened – months ahead of unveiling a major expansion
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A portrait saved for the nation has been praised for representing racial equality in 17th-century Britain, but it’s mainly a warning to women everywhere