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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 ...

Ian Warrell is an independent curator specialising in British art of the 19th century. He is the author of ‘Venice with Turner’, available later this spring (Tate Publishing).

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 ...

From the April 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In the summer of 1936, when Salvador Dalí gave his famous lecture at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, delivered ...

It is no surprise that the Surrealist artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun (1906–88) was so intrigued by Glendalough, the monastic settlement in County Wicklow. The valley, with its round tower, holy ...

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, ...

Hidden somewhere in the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam is a remarkable bronze medallion featuring a noble-looking man holding a book. His halo and beard make him resemble Jesus – but an Islamic invocation ...

In the early 16th century, a Roman coin bearing the image of a crocodile chained to a palm branch was unearthed at Nîmes in the south of France. On the obverse were profile portraits, back to back, of ...

From the January 2022 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. If there’s one thing that sums up the awkwardness of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin’s new flagship museum complex, it’s the black ...

In the last week, despite all the woes of the world, more than $2.5bn of art has been sold across the three major auction houses in New York. Christie’s total was $1.45bn; Sotheby’s finished its ...

From the November 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1939, the psychiatrist Walter Maclay found eight coloured drawings in a Notting Hill junk shop. They all show cats. A sepia tabby ...