From the November 2026 issue of Apollo. Through the second half of the 20th century, Ernst and Hildy Beyeler amassed one of the world’s finest private collections of modern art, comprising more than ...

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Though only 30 km separated Frans Hals and Rembrandt van Rijn – who worked in Haarlem and Amsterdam respectively – there’s no record of the 17th-century masters ever meeting. Their work, however, ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. Art Basel Paris is the smallest fair in the Art Basel roster, but it still dominates the French capital. This month more than 200 exhibitors of modern and ...

‘It’s a decorative art, it’s more than fashion’ – Francesca Galloway talks about collecting couture A leading dealer in Indian paintings and textiles, she also has an extensive collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Success and fame, if they come to an artist at all, usually arrive by one of two routes. Either their work suddenly captures the moment, chiming with current cultural trends or concepts; or else an ...

We have all become suddenly more aware of the moments when we cannot avoid touching elements of public buildings. Architecture is the most physical, most imposing and most present of the arts – you ...

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, ...

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 ...