When Frida Kahlo met Mary Reynolds
When Frida Kahlo met Mary ReynoldsRevisiting the meeting of the two Surrealists in Paris in 1939 sheds new light on the movement as a whole
A brief history of Apollo’s cameo appearances
A personal tally of finding the magazine’s readers in films, television and fiction – and among the Rolling Stones
The fine art of magazine advertising
A look back at Apollo’s commercial pages through the decades reveals shifts in consumer tastes – as well as some distinctly quirky offerings
How Robert Adam brought Diocletian’s palace to the Thames
This magazine’s first home, the Adelphi was both a neoclassical triumph and a financial disaster for ‘Bob the Roman’
‘Like landscape, his objects seem to breathe’: Gordon Baldwin (1932–2025)
The modernist potter was one of a handful of British ceramicists who pushed clay to its expressive limits
For Hans Hess, German Expressionism was a family matter
With parents who had been notable collectors, the émigré art historian knew the work of many of his subjects intimately
The Met’s Rockefeller Wing now stands taller than ever
The museum’s refurbished galleries of art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas now have the prominence they deserve
The Louvre puts on its first fashion show
High fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at the Paris museum. With so much to see, it‘s hard to know where to look
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Audio gets visual at the Barbican this summer
‘Feel the Sound’ makes imaginative use of the brutalist building to convey the power of sound, but sometimes silence can be just as effective
Four things to see: Myths and legends
To commemorate the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens, who frequently depicted mythological characters, we look at four artworks that bring classical tales to life
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In the studio with… Tara Donovan
The sculptor prefers not to have visitors in her sunlit studio in Brooklyn, where she tests materials and rereads books that have influenced her
In the studio with… Florence Houston
When painting her gelatinous desserts, the artist is surrounded by jelly moulds, jellies and even a mummified mouse for company
June 2025
Apollo celebrates its centenary
Up and away: the art of the Ascension
Ruth Asawa: wired for art
Has the QR code had its day?
Plus: the artists who have bared all, the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Met, Gertrude Stein’s museum of modern art, Elizabeth I’s favourite kitchen utensil, how Jenny Saville turns paint into flesh, and a preview of Treasure House Fair; in reviews: Hiroshige in London, Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds in Chicago, and art versus AI
Wining and dining with Duccio
The Old Master was hardly alone among his contemporaries in being partial to a glass – or a bottle – of red
Why it’s time to stop rediscovering Eileen Gray
The designer was a genius but, as a new film shows, her achievements still have to be untangled from the men who kept getting in her way
The Department of Culture badly needs a sense of direction
Recent denials that the department for culture, media and sport is for the chop don’t address the problem of its glaring lack of purpose
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Face to face with Oliver Osborne
The artist talks to Apollo about how paint can conceal any number of mysteries in a seemingly straightforward portrait
‘The ghost of a figure shimmers into view’
Robert Macfarlane is fascinated by a watery bronze by British sculptor Laurence Edwards
When art deco went to the movies
The distinctive London cinemas designed by George Coles in the 1930s were like Hawksmoor churches for the celluloid age
Meet a new power-player in the world of animal diplomacy
Is it time for the Smithsonian pandas to roll over? An agreement with Saudi Arabia means there‘s a new mammalian ambassador in town
The British Royal Family’s love of bling
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
What Wellington bought after Waterloo
An exhibition of the Dutch paintings the 1st Duke of Wellington purchased in Paris reveals another aspect of an extraordinary life
Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation
The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie
Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
Design and Disability
The V&A tells the story of how disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people have shaped and inspired modern design over the last 80 years
Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin
In Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie’s restaging of a 1905 exhibition in Paris shows how both artists were developing their own sculptural languages
Face to Face: 19th-century Austrian portrait painting
Salzburg’s DomQuartier presents portraits by painters who were forced to get more creative after the advent of photography
Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues
The artist pairs her paintings of eerily abstracted faces and bodies with archaeological objects from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
Apollo at 100
As the magazine marks its centenary, its belief in being curious about both the past and present – and in the power of art – is more important than ever