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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Max Beckmann – Departure
A show in Munich explores how the German modernist captured the upheavals of his war-torn era
Rose Wylie: picky people notice…
The British painter’s characterful figures go on show at S.M.A.K. in Ghent
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
Fernand Léger and the Rooftops of Paris
How smoke and chimneys inspired the French Cubist to take a more experimental approach to making art
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.
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope
The Polish artist’s monumental woven sculptures get the spotlight at Tate Modern
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
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
Louis Boulanger, Painter of Dreams
A close friend of Victor Hugo, this painter made his own key contribution to Romanticism
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
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
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
Art of the Terraces
This show in Liverpool contends that the influence of the football Casuals extended far beyond the stadiums
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
Do Ho Suh
The Korean sculptor’s reconstructions of the places where he has lived get their first showing in Sydney
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
The Other Renaissance: Spanish Artists in Naples in the Early Cinquecento
The Prado explores how Italy’s southern capital became a hotbed for creativity
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?