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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Dorothea Lange: Seeing People
Through her intimate portraits of migrant labourers, cotton pickers and farmers, Dorothea Lange captured the realities of Depression-era America
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
Fantasy: Realms of Imagination
The British Library goes on a journey through many centuries of imagined lands
Women Masters
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid brings together pioneering female artists
John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey
How the Neo-Romantic painter found freedom away from British shores
Venezia 500: The Gentle Revolution of Venetian Painting
How the Italian city became a site of stylistic innovation
La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th Century Venice
The Courtauld takes a tour of the famously serene city through artworks from its collection
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain and the Origins of Fauvism
The Met museum shows how summer spent in a fishing village in France changed the course of French painting
The Treasury of Notre Dame: From its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc
Illuminated medieval manuscripts, relics and paintings tell the history of the cathedral through to its renovation in the 19th century
Gabriele Münter: Retrospective
The Leopold Museum in Vienna examines the life and work of the great German Expressionist who was at the heart of the European avant-garde
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened
The French-American painter takes a humorous approach to tackling socio-political issues
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