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Situation terminal: can an artist improve Manchester Airport?

Rakewell ponders why an airport would install an artist in residence

3 Feb 2016

The eccentric and enduring visions of Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs are some of the most hauntingly original of the 19th century.

Are there too many art fairs?

With several art fairs staged every week, are such events damaging to the more traditional art trade, or do they allow greater public engagement with art?

1 Feb 2016
Lord Eglinton dressed as the Lord of the Tournament

Samuel Rush Meyrick: the man behind the medieval revival

‘For students of arms and armour, Meyrick was the first and greatest of those giants on whose shoulders we stand.’

1 Feb 2016
The chorus of the harem (former ‘Virgil’s Hall’) at the Bardo National Museum, Tunis

‘If we stay away from Tunisia, we are cowards’

The Bardo Museum in Carthage still bears the scars of last year’s terrorist attack. The best way to support it is to visit

1 Feb 2016

Acquisitions of the Month: January 2016

Several museums have plugged gaps in their collections this month, while others have received some extraordinarily generous gifts

31 Jan 2016

Martin Puryear

Multiple Dimensions One of the most renowned artists working today, Martin Puryear is celebrated for his elegant but playful sculpture…

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TEFAF Talk: The Art of Frames at the National Gallery, London

Join Apollo’s editor Thomas Marks for a discussion about a hugely important, but frequently overlooked, part of art history

29 Jan 2016

Rewriting the past: must Rhodes fall?

A statue of Cecil Rhodes will stand at Oriel College, Oxford, in place despite calls for its removal, but debates about ‘erasing history’ rumble on

29 Jan 2016
Ai Weiwei shows the world his passport via Instagram.

What’s in store at the National Galleries of Scotland?

Thousands of artworks are hidden away in Edinburgh’s Granton Stores. We got an exclusive tour…

28 Jan 2016
Rakewell

The Rake’s Progress: Last Week in Gossip

Harry Styles turns to painting, the new British Museum director’s penchant for Prince, and why Arts Council initiatives sound like second-rate action films

25 Jan 2016

London Diary: fine art in ‘sinful Soho’

The current show at Marian Goodman gallery is a blast, and White Cube has come up with a winner, too

25 Jan 2016

Farewell, Sir Peter Bazalgette. Your successor will need a thick skin

What the Arts Council England owes its outgoing Chairman

21 Jan 2016
Australia's Crumbling Cultural Sector - Apollo Magazine

Cuts run deep: Is Australia’s ‘coup culture’ killing its cultural heart?

In the space of five years, Australia has seen five prime ministers, with wildly different attitudes to art and culture

20 Jan 2016

Readings Held Worldwide for Condemned Poet and Artist Ashraf Fayadh

Hundreds attended events in support of Ashraf Fayadh, who faces the death sentence in Saudi Arabia

17 Jan 2016

Omar Kholeif on how the internet transformed art

‘I’ve always been interested in artists who stretch the formal limits of technology’

13 Jan 2016

Photography as a medium seems richer than ever

It’s important that photography retains its social, human edge as we enter another turbulent year

12 Jan 2016
Scenes from the Life of St Colman MacDuagh of Galway

Leading light – the stained-glass windows of Wilhelmina Geddes

A key figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement, the designer should also be seen in the context of European modernism

10 Jan 2016

Acquisitions of the Month: December 2015

Several museums have received wonderful gifts this Christmas…

7 Jan 2016

Sir John Soane’s private apartments are a public treasure

The restoration at the Soane Museum is a masterpiece of forensic work

6 Jan 2016

Rodin moves back to Paris

The sculptor would have approved of the Musée Rodin’s sensitive refurbishment

5 Jan 2016
Snøhetta expansion of SFMOMA, opening 14 May 2016 © Henrik Kam, courtesy SFMOMA

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Neal Benezra on the reopening of the SFMOMA and why 2016 will be an exciting year for the entire San Francisco Bay Area

5 Jan 2016