‘We want to get people involved in their city’
Judikje Kiers, director of the Amsterdam Museum, on the museum’s expansion plans and its TEFAF loan exhibition
Acquisitions of the month: February 2018
A Duchamp readymade owned by Robert Rauschenberg and an Etruscan bronze are among this month’s top acquisitions
The Apollo podcast: learning from the Old Masters
Thomas Marks talks to Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about how we can deepen our understanding of Old Master paintings
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Blue: the History of a Color’ by Michel Pastoureau (Princeton University Press)
‘This exhibition is about forces enacted on the body’
George Henry Longly discusses his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, which features eight Japanese armours
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Zurbarán – Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle’ (Frick Collection)
Acquisitions of the month: January 2018
The finest additions to public collections this month include a crop of modern European artworks, from Munch to Mondrian
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Gustav Klimt at Home’ by Patrick Bade (Frances Lincoln)
Acquisitions of the month: December 2017
Last month’s acquisitions include a portrait of a hirsute lady, and a major purchase for the Frick
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels’ by Christopher Lloyd (Thames & Hudson)
Eugene Thaw (1927–2018)
Eugene Thaw, the collector of drawings and celebrated art dealer, has died at the age of 90
The major art anniversaries to look out for in 2018
Expect celebrations of Cubism, universal suffrage, architects and art collectors in the coming year
Do we still need UNESCO?
The US is withdrawing from UNESCO (again) at the end of 2018. Has this international body outlived its usefulness?
‘The most substantial Kunsthalle in London’
Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery, explains what the revamped brutalist building has to offer artists and audiences
The Apollo podcast: Ralph Taylor
Thomas Marks talks to the head of post-war and contemporary art at Bonhams about how the market is shaping up for 2018
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Leonard Rosoman’ by Tanya Harrod (Royal Academy of Arts)
The Apollo podcast: Jonathan Yeo
Thomas Marks talks to Jonathan Yeo about the artist’s first sculpture – created using Virtual Reality
Acquisitions of the month: November 2017
This month’s acquisitions include a hoard of Soviet nonconformist art, a significant example of brutalist architecture, and a Danish masterpiece
‘Sculpture is part of the public realm’
Mark Handforth discusses his commission for the ICA Miami’s new home – and the city’s thriving art scene
Should we be worried about the future of small galleries?
Following a flurry of closures, is the future bleak for small galleries – or might new initiatives serve to rejuvenate them
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘On Weaving’ by Anni Albers (Princeton University Press)
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Women Artists in Paris, 1850–1900’ (Yale University Press)
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Should Britain stop building museums?
A recent government report says it should – but with limited public funding available, can Britain’s existing museums grow?