Botticelli Drawings

In San Francisco the Legion of Honor pairs the painter’s masterpieces with their preparatory sketches

17 Nov 2023

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

Working on paper allowed artists to capture life on the move and as it was lived

17 Nov 2023

Africa & Byzantium

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the artistic achievements of Africa in the Middle Ages through some 200 objects

10 Nov 2023
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212 (detail; 1817), Horace Vernet. Image: © RMN-GP (Palace of Versailles); © G. Blot

Horace Vernet

The Palace of Versailles displays its impressive collection of paintings by the French painter

10 Nov 2023

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines

The Brooklyn Museum examines the medium’s relationship to subcultures and avant-garde practices

10 Nov 2023

Holbein at the Tudor Court

The German artist enjoyed a privileged position as the King’s Painter to Henry VIII

10 Nov 2023

In the studio with… Es Devlin

The multidisciplinary artist begins her work in bed each morning and spends her afternoons cycling to meetings, equipped with two large saddlebags

10 Nov 2023

Museum Opening of the Year

Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Museum Opening of the Year Award commends key projects from the past 12 months

6 Nov 2023

Digital Innovation of the Year

Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Digital Innovation of the Year Award commends the top digital projects from the past 12 months

6 Nov 2023

Artist of the Year

Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Artist of the Year Award commends the most influential artists of the past 12 months

6 Nov 2023

Acquisition of the Year

Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Acquisition of the Year Award commends the best museum acquisitions of the past 12 months

6 Nov 2023

Exhibition of the Year

Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Exhibition of the Year Award commends the best museum shows of the past 12 months

6 Nov 2023

Book of the Year

Apollo’s annual celebration of achievements in the art world. The Book of the Year Award commends the best new publications of the past 12 months

3 Nov 2023

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia and Friends

This exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge delves into the work produced by the Chinese artist and the artistic communities that gathered around him

3 Nov 2023

Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini

Paintings by the Italian artists are reunited at the Frick Madison in New York for the first time since their separation four centuries ago

3 Nov 2023

Le Paris de la modernité (1905–1925)

The last in a trilogy of shows at the Petit Palais on the history of art made in Paris turns its attention to the first decades of the 20th century

3 Nov 2023

Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis reveals the inventiveness of Eastern European artists during the Cold War period

3 Nov 2023

Acquisitions of the Month: October 2023

A conversation portrait by Johann Zoffany and a marble sculpture by Giovanni Bandini are among the most significant works to enter public collections

3 Nov 2023

David Hockney: Drawing from Life

This long-awaited exhibition takes a close look at portraits of five sitters David Hockney has returned to throughout his 60-year career.

27 Oct 2023

Françoise Sullivan: ‘I let rhythms flow’

As the Québécoise artist turns 100, this exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Art celebrates her influence on Canadian modern art and dance

27 Oct 2023

Dorothea Lange: Seeing People

Through her intimate portraits of migrant labourers, cotton pickers and farmers, Dorothea Lange captured the realities of Depression-era America

27 Oct 2023

Holbein and the Renaissance in the North

Some 130 works by artists including Hans Holbein, Albrecht Dürer and Hans Burgkmair tell the story of the Northern Renaissance in Augsburg and further afield

27 Oct 2023

Fantasy: Realms of Imagination

The British Library goes on a journey through many centuries of imagined lands

20 Oct 2023

Women Masters

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid brings together pioneering female artists

20 Oct 2023