There is, I’d guess, a certain Cassandra-like satisfaction to be had from creating a satire on modern corporate capitalism and then having a modern capitalist corporation thoroughly screw you over: ...

From the September 2026 issue of Apollo. Less than a quarter of the way into the Bayeux Tapestry, a small, puzzling scene interrupts the course of events. At this point, we are still in the long ...

From the July/August 2026 issue of Apollo. Christ emerges from the shadows, body limp, nails penetrating his hands and feet, his head slumped and lifeless. His sinuous flesh contrasts with the stark ...

The art collector Kay Heller began to grow interested in Haitian art in the 1980s, when she worked in a mission hospital in Limbé in the north of the country. Since then she and her husband, J.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In Amélie (2001), at the exact moment the protagonist is conceived (‘September 3rd 1973, at 6.28pm and 32 seconds’, the narrator tells us), a fly lands on the streets of Montmartre and is crushed ...

From the February 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. For a visitor to London in the 1840s, the giant subterranean kitchens of the brand-new Reform Club were an unmissable sight.

From the February 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In the aftermath of the fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles in early January 2025, the city’s art world battled with the ...

When the sculptor was announced for the US Pavilion at Venice, many in the art world declared their unfamiliarity with his work, doubts about the selection process and incredulity that abstract art ...