Exhibition of the Year

Donatello: the Renaissance Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence 19 March–31 July With some 130 works, this was…

25 Nov 2022
Acquisition of the year shortlist

Acquisition of the Year

Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions will be published in the January 2023 issue British Museum More…

25 Nov 2022

Digital Innovation of the Year

ArtCentrica Founded in March by Florentine digital-imaging company Centrica, this start-up is seeking to transform the way that art is…

25 Nov 2022
Artist of the year

Artist of the Year

Francis Alÿs Francis Alÿs’s projects spanning installation, video, painting, and drawing pursue anthropological and geopolitical concerns by sending up the…

25 Nov 2022
Apollo Awards 2022 museum shortlist

Museum Opening of the Year

Bibliothèque nationale de France – Richelieu, Paris Reopened September 2022 After a 12-year, €250m restoration of the 18th-century site, the…

25 Nov 2022

Book of the Year

The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss Getty…

24 Nov 2022
(detail; 1927), Max Beckmann. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.

Max Beckmann – Departure

A show in Munich explores how the German modernist captured the upheavals of his war-torn era

18 Nov 2022
A Handsome Couple (detail;2022), Rose Wylie.

Rose Wylie: picky people notice…

The British painter’s characterful figures go on show at S.M.A.K. in Ghent

18 Nov 2022
Cleopatra Dying (1859), Henri Baron de Triqueti.

The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture

The Henry Moore Institute considers how the 19th-century vogue for polychrome sculpture reflected the rapid social changes of the era

18 Nov 2022

Guido Reni

Celebrating the baroque painter’s divine gift for religious imagery

18 Nov 2022
Les fumées sur les toits (1911–12), Fernand Léger. Triton Collection Foundation.

Fernand Léger and the Rooftops of Paris

How smoke and chimneys inspired the French Cubist to take a more experimental approach to making art

11 Nov 2022
Virgin Reading (c. 1510), Vittore Carpaccio. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice

The Renaissance painter’s talent for story-telling is the focus of this retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

11 Nov 2022
Abakan Orange (1971), Magdalena Abakanowicz. Tate.

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope

The Polish artist’s monumental woven sculptures get the spotlight at Tate Modern

11 Nov 2022
The Eclipse of the Sun (detail; 1926), Georg Grosz. Huckster Museum of Art, New York

The Glitter and Poison of the Twenties: George Grosz in Berlin

The German artist’s visceral satires of 1920s Berlin go on show in Stuttgart

11 Nov 2022
The Nun Ryonen (Ryonen-ni) from Famous Women of Past and Present (Kokon meifuden) (detail; 1864). Utagawa Kunisada.

Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection

The Denver Art Museum explores how Japanese women artists flew in the face of social conventions

4 Nov 2022

Louis Boulanger, Painter of Dreams

A close friend of Victor Hugo, this painter made his own key contribution to Romanticism

4 Nov 2022
Circus – Before the Show (1908–10), Marianne Werefkin. Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona

Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin

The Royal Academy shines a light on the women artists who were central to the development of German Expressionism

4 Nov 2022
The Rye Marshes, East Sussex (1932), Paul Nash. Hull Museums Collection

Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water

An exhibition at Pallant House gallery explores how the South Downs have captured the imaginations of artists through the centuries

4 Nov 2022
Jardinière (c. 1730), China. Strawberry Hill House, London

Acquisitions of the Month: October 2022

This month’s highlights include the 18th-century Chinese jardinière that Horace Walpole famously used as a fish bowl

1 Nov 2022

Art of the Terraces

This show in Liverpool contends that the influence of the football Casuals extended far beyond the stadiums

28 Oct 2022
(1301–1400), anonymous artist. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.

Toulouse 1300–1400: The Emergence of Southern Gothic

The Musée de Cluny in Paris explores how Toulouse became the home of a new style of sculpture and architecture

28 Oct 2022
Rubbing/Loving Project: Company Housing of Gwangju Theater (2012), Do Ho Suh.

Do Ho Suh

The Korean sculptor’s reconstructions of the places where he has lived get their first showing in Sydney

28 Oct 2022
Still Life with Compote and Grapes (1914–15), Pablo Picasso. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.

Cubism and the Trompe L’Oeil Tradition

Modern artists used time-honoured tricks to create their mind-bending works, as this show at the Met reveals

28 Oct 2022
Pedro Machuca

The Other Renaissance: Spanish Artists in Naples in the Early Cinquecento

The Prado explores how Italy’s southern capital became a hotbed for creativity

21 Oct 2022