September 2023

Deconstructivism wasn’t exactly a movement, but its practitioners – from Frank Gehry to Bernard Tschumi – certainly caused a great stir

A new breed of business is offering investors shares in blue-chip artworks – and making big claims about their profitability

Under new owners, this stalwart of the London fair calendar shows that a focus on British art needn’t be parochial

The market for paintings by the likes of John Craxton and John Minton – and Paul Nash in pastoral mode – is having an idyllic time

Achim Gnann of the Albertina Museum gets to grips with sketches that show the artist embracing a dynamic new style

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is as powerful as you would expect, but the Hiroshima Museum of Art may catch you unawares

When institutions try to offer something to everyone do they risk spreading themselves too thin?

Gwen John and the contemporary artist Matthew Krishanu found comfort in a shared composition

A convivial collaboration between the American artist and a saké brewery is refreshing stuff

Under its new director Christine Macel, the historic museum full of masterpieces of French design is entering a brand new era

The national museum of immigration has a new mission – but it’s still housed in a building haunted by France’s colonial ghosts

It’s hard to say who, exactly, the Normans were – but even harder to make them out as a model migrants and proto-Europeans as a string of recent exhibitions has tried to do

The reinvention of the Museum of Childhood as Young V&A has been a great success. Should more institutions follow its example and become younger at heart?

An old-fashioned way of bringing in cakes and custards is beginning to feel rather modern again

From the September 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I first encountered William McTaggart’s The Storm (1890) when I was a student of fine art in Edinburgh in the 1970s. This is how I wanted to paint. I was in awe of the energetic brushwork, the vivid colour and the artist’s ability to […]

Ahead of a retrospective at Tate Britain, the artist tells Apollo that swapping the city for rural Suffolk has led her to more primordial themes

It was the pioneering photogapher’s dedication to botany that made her determined to record her samples in such memorable fashion

In the Neue Nationalgalerie’s celebration of the sculptor’s 75th birthday, modernity is never what it used to be

The painter was always reluctant to regard his paintings as finished and revisted some of his greatest compositions several times

When it came to designing stained-glass windows, Henry Holiday was more than a match for his friend Edward Burne-Jones

An understanding of theatrical culture in the 18th century is vital for understanding the most important painters of the period