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What are we to make of posthumous art?
An exhibition of Garry Winogrand’s photography at the Metropolitan Museum includes many posthumous prints. Do they have a place there?
The Week’s Muse: 23 August
Bob and Roberta Smith stands up for art in schools; Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square; and the utopian appeal of geometric art
Gallery: ‘Portraiture Now’ at the NPG Washington
A new exhibition contends that portraiture doesn’t reflect the self; it constructs it
Review: ‘Multiple Exposures: Jewellery and Photography’ at MAD New York
In focusing on recent innovations, this exhibition risks losing sight of some of the original allure of its subject
‘It’s a building that only reveals itself by experience’. Inside the Clark Art Institute
After its long-awaited redevelopment, the Clark has unveiled an impressive new building designed by Tadao Ando alongside refurbished galleries by Annabelle Selldorf
Review: ‘The Art and Science of Exploration’ at the Queen’s House
A new display of art from Captain Cook’s voyages is compelling, but doesn’t quite tell the whole story
Muse Reviews: 17 August
Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Gallery: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center
Satan, sin and the underworld…selected highlights
Enigmas: Caroline Walker’s lithographs and paintings
The characters in Walker’s works are caught in moments of enigmatic significance, at once inconsequential and charged with possible implication
Apollo 40 Under 40: The Thinkers
Which curators, writers, academics and educators are steering public opinion about art?
Are art installations the new video games?
Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?
Review: Mark Neville’s Helmand Work at the IWM London
Mark Neville’s films and photographs from Afghanistan reveal the strange banality of war
Gallery: ‘Landscape, abstracted’ at the MFA Boston
For centuries, painters have experimented with the landscape. Where will today’s artists venture next?
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
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
The Week’s Muse: 9 August
A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room
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
A good advert for American art? Art Everywhere in the US
Can art add sparkle to the USA’s advertising billboards?
The Hague’s Hidden Treasures: Prince William V’s Picture Gallery
Not all of the Mauritshuis’s treasures are actually in the Mauritshuis
The Week’s Muse: 2 August
40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays
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
Acquisitions of the Month: July
Deaccessioning is in the news, but what of the museums that have been acquiring new work?
Edinburgh Art Festival: what not to miss
Heading to Edinburgh? Here are six fine art exhibitions to visit while you’re out there…
Among the poppies: volunteering at the Tower of London’s war memorial
Paul Cummins’ red field of poppies has been planted by volunteers, and is still growing