From the June 2026 issue of Apollo. Anyone with a passing interest in cricket will know about the 1981 Ashes series, remembered chiefly for the third test at Headingley, in which Ian Botham dragged ...

Long after David Sassoon’s descendants had entered the highest echelons of English society, their collecting reflected the family’s ties to the Middle East, India and China As Nahson and Da Costa ...

It is the strangest normal day imaginable. At Beamish, a sprawling 350-acre recreation of everyday life in the north-east of England from the 1820s to the 1950s, a signpost tells me that I can walk ...

Over the course of her career, Tacita Dean has worked to discover new expressive possibilities for analogue film, by treating it not as a technology but a medium akin to painting or sculpture. With ...

Museum extensions are a seemingly unstoppable phenomenon. In London, the National Gallery is planning a whole new wing, architects to be determined. MoMA is the undisputed global leader in this field, ...

Catholic Spain contained one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe in the Middle Ages – until their expulsion by decree in 1492. Featuring images of both co-existence and persecution, this show ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) began collecting Impressionist art in 1929, when the real-estate developer and sometime Chicago Times editor William Preston Harrison donated 10 paintings ...

In 1972 the British Museum’s display of 50 objects from the tomb of King Tutankhamun attracted 1.6 million visitors, and became the paradigm for the blockbuster exhibition as an unmissable, ...

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist (c. 1512/13), Rosso Fiorentino In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari documented Rosso Fiorentino’s first major commission, a fresco of the Assumption of ...

Senior Editor, Apollo Isabella Smith’s interest in craft began while working as a research assistant for a collector of British art pottery. After a master’s in art history at the Courtauld Institute ...

From the September 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The view directly ahead of me is classically, achingly picturesque: Vesuvius as backdrop, its distinctive outline purple-blue ...

Schools of landscape painting are often driven by political struggles for independence, and Norway’s is no exception. Between 1380 and 1814, Norway was an impoverished and oppressed land ruled over by ...