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The studied elegance of Antoine Watteau

The artist left behind thousands of drawings when he died at the age of 37, and some of the loveliest examples can be seen at the British Museum

20 Jun 2025

John Piper’s passion for tradition

In his designs for stained glass the artist found his perfect medium, taking a modern approach to an age-old form

16 Jun 2025

Gold Icon Contemporary art gets a glorious new home at Goodwood

The Duke of Richmond has been filling the grounds of his Sussex estate with sculpture, and the results are a breath of fresh air

14 Jun 2025

Gold Icon Surround-sound art finds a perfect home in Portugal

A former monastery is an apt setting for the eerie installations of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

9 Jun 2025

Gold Icon Elizabeth I’s favourite kitchen utensil

The Virgin Queen was not known for her cookery skills, so why was she often painted holding a sieve?

7 Jun 2025

Acquisitions of the month: May 2025

Chardin’s luscious still life of fruit and Guercino’s commanding King David are among last month’s most significant museum acquisitions

6 Jun 2025

The Loewe Craft Prize keeps thinking outside the box

The best pieces among this year’s finalists blend skill and elegance with an awareness of questions about memory and inheritance

5 Jun 2025

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

4 Jun 2025

Gold Icon 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

3 Jun 2025

Gold Icon The twist and turns in Ruth Asawa’s reputation

The artist mixed making abstract sculpture with populist public commissions. As her reputation soars, her generosity of spirit is as apparent as her inventiveness

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon 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

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon Up and away – the art of the Ascension

Depictions of Christ’s ascent to heaven often manage to be both deadly serious and upliftingly silly

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon Amédée Ozenfant, the purest of the Purists

The French artist believed in his paintings being stylistically uniform and infinitely replicable – an idea that, a century on, has not done him any favours

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon Has the QR code had its day?

Though museums use them to provide more information, QR codes can conceal as much as they reveal

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon Why Gertrude Stein’s home was the first museum of modern art

In Paris, the American writer and her siblings were early patrons of the likes of Matisse and Picasso, making their Left Bank apartment a magnet for art lovers

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon How Jenny Saville turns paint into flesh

In her depictions of the human form, the artist pushes paint to its limits, explains Sarah Howgate of the National Portrait Gallery in London

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon The Basque Country vineyard with an altar to wine

Nestled just south of the Pyrenees, Bodega Otazu is home to its very own ‘Catedral del Vino’, as well as a 2,000-strong collection of contemporary art

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon 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

2 Jun 2025

Gold Icon 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

30 May 2025

Gold Icon ‘The ghost of a figure shimmers into view’

Robert Macfarlane is fascinated by a watery bronze by British sculptor Laurence Edwards

28 May 2025

Gold Icon The curious career of Jan van Kessel

In his teeming depiction of animals about to enter the ark, Jan van Kessel put an inventive spin on an original by his grandfather, Jan Brueghel the Elder

24 May 2025

Gold Icon Storm King Art Center goes for growth

The vast sculpture park in upstate New York is reopening after an ambitious expansion that is planting the seeds of its future success

9 May 2025

Acquisitions of the month: April 2025

Maarten van Heemskerck’s Entombment of Christ and a triptych by Joan Mitchell are among the most significant museum acquisitions of last month

7 May 2025

The shows to see in and around New York this month

With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for attention in the city during Frieze and TEFAF, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows not to miss

6 May 2025