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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 1h
‘Our goal is to promote these artists, not ourselves.’ The founders of the New York gallery Berry Campbell talk to Edward Behrens about shaping the market for work by modern and contemporary women artists.
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‘Our goal is to promote these artists, not ourselves’: Berry Campbell
The founders of the New York gallery talk to Edward Behrens about shaping the market for work by modern and contemporary women artists
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 3h
Some 200 prints by the Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige sold this month at Christie’s New York for nearly $7m – almost five times the low estimate. It’s one of several record-breaking recent sales.
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French art conquers September’s auctions
An intimate scene by Fragonard and Ingres’s commanding portrait of Julius Caesar were among the top lots at Christie’s this month, Anna Brady reports
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 5h
‘The result is an intriguing experiment in democratised curation, substituting a sense of deliberate polish in the displays for a madcap cabinet-of-curiosities.’ Matthew Kerr visits the renovated Hull Maritime Museum in Yorkshire, and likes the cut of its jib.
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Navigating Hull’s maritime history
Hull Maritime Museum has reopened after a six-year, £20m refit, and its extraordinary collection of art and artefacts of seafaring life is making waves once again, writes Matthew Kerr
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 7h
As the British Museum prepares to open a sweeping survey of 2,000 years of Korean art, curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Lucy Waterson about the challenges and delights of mounting such an ambitious exhibition.
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Tracing 2,000 years of Korean art in London
Curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Apollo about the British Museum’s sweeping survey of art from the Korean peninsula
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 9h
Chequers has been the British prime minister’s official country residence for more than a century. Juliet Carey, former curator at the house, takes us on a tour
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Premier’s inn: the many lives of Chequers, the prime minister’s official country residence
The Buckinghamshire house was donated to the nation more than a century ago. Juliet Carey, former curator at the house, gives us a tour
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 12h
Wanda and Marion Wulz were in their twenties when they inherited Trieste’s foremost photography studio from their father. But what they made of it in during the interwar years was entirely their own, writes Lucy Davies
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The Trieste photographers who were a class sister act
The experimental images made by Wanda and Marion Wulz in the interwar years show these Italian women revelling in their personal and creative autonomy, writes Lucy Davies
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 15h
‘Their undeniable power makes it impossible to dismiss them. But even if you do, the paintings will haunt you later.’ Zachary Ginsberg on B.J. Newton, Folsom Prison’s de facto artist-in-residence.
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In praise of Folsom Prison’s artist-in-residence
In the apocalyptic visions of B.J. Newton, who spent years in and out of the California penal system, we can see the abyss staring back at us, writes Zachary Ginsberg
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 17h
‘For Marden, there really are images buried in those pure abstract planes of his, images that record experience as richly as colour does.’ To believe this requires ‘an act of faith’ – one that Morgan Falconer is willing to perform.
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Brice Marden, master of colour
Gagosian’s catalogue raisonné of Marden’s paintings and an accompanying survey in New York make it clear that, for the artist, colour alone could speak volumes, writes Morgan Falconer
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 19h
Can Richard Dadd’s art ever be separated from his state of mind? ‘The drawings and paintings he created after the breakdown of his mental health have a level of imaginative freedom, playfulness, enigma and left-field psychological insight previously absent,’ writes Susan Owens.
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Richard Dadd, great Victorian painter
The artist’s catastrophic mental breakdown as a young man meant that he spent the rest of his life in confinement. His paintings, however, are among the most powerful of the age, writes Susan Owens
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 21h
‘Our goal is to promote these artists, not ourselves.’ The founders of the New York gallery Berry Campbell talk to Edward Behrens about shaping the market for work by modern and contemporary women artists
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‘Our goal is to promote these artists, not ourselves’: Berry Campbell
The founders of the New York gallery talk to Edward Behrens about shaping the market for work by modern and contemporary women artists
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 23h
From the YBAs to star collectors and plans for a new temple for modern art, the 1990s gave birth to the London scene – and the London market – as we know it. Jane Morris, who saw it all close up, reflects on this defining decade.
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What was London’s art scene really like in the ’90s?
From YBAs and Shoreditch parties to mega collectors and the making of Tate Modern, the 1990s was a decade of daring and decadence. Jane Morris had a ringside seat
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
Content warning: Tintoretto!
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
‘Get close to a Tintoretto and the intelligence of his process, not just its much-vaunted energy, becomes clear.’ The verve and originality of the Venetian painter are on full display at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, writes Ben Street.
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Tintoretto shows us the possibilities of painting
The Jacquemart-André presents the artist as an intellectually adventurous figure whose concerns are still challenging painters and viewers today, writes Ben Street
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
‘Despite the demands of teaching, the unflappable Ayres, perpetually clutching a cigarette – one of the 60 she was said to smoke a day – still made time for painting.’ Lucy Waterson on the unrelenting energy of Gillian Ayres, whose paintings are on show at the Box in Plymouth until Sunday
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Re-entering the orbit of Gillian Ayres
An exhibition at the Box in Plymouth brings renewed attention to the British artist’s colourful, cacophonous paintings, writes Lucy Waterson
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
A collection of 18th-century French masterpieces, some 200 prints by Hiroshige and a set of collectable sports cards are among the items to have broken auction records in Paris, New York and Dallas recently
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French art conquers September’s auctions
An intimate scene by Fragonard and Ingres’s commanding portrait of Julius Caesar were among the top lots at Christie’s this month, Anna Brady reports
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
The lives of Benedictine monks and nuns have much to teach us, if a display of medieval and contemporary art at the Sainsbury Centre is anything to go by.
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Doing things by the book in the Middle Ages
The lives of Benedictine monks and nuns have much to teach us, if a display of medieval and contemporary art at the Sainsbury Centre is anything to go by, writes Francesca Peacock
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
Why does the British prime minister have the use of a country house in Buckinghamshire? According to the Chequers Estate Act of 1917, two days a week in the ‘high and pure air of the Chiltern Hills’ is good for the nation as well as its leader. Juliet Carey gives a tour of this very unusual home
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Premier’s inn: the many lives of Chequers, the prime minister’s official country residence
The Buckinghamshire house was donated to the nation more than a century ago. Juliet Carey, former curator at the house, gives us a tour
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
The October issue of Apollo is out now, featuring: • the explosive genius of Roy Lichtenstein • how London’s art scene took off in the 1990s • why dinosaurs rule at auction • what to see at Art Basel Paris and in London during Frieze and much more. See full contents here. buff.ly/tSChogo
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
‘In shawls, hats, wigs, fans, kimonos; in biker goggles, flapper hats and bandeaux; as Cleopatra, and in modern clothing designed by their friend Anita Pittoni – on every wall these women glow.’ Lucy Davies on the Wulz sisters’ photographs, now at the Estorick Collection in London
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The Trieste photographers who were a class sister act
The experimental images made by Wanda and Marion Wulz in the interwar years show these Italian women revelling in their personal and creative autonomy, writes Lucy Davies
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
The Bank of England ran a public consultation this summer over which animals should feature on its banknotes, but what does it say that a growing number of countries are cashing in on wildlife, rather than historical figures, for the images on their currency? Debika Ray reports.
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Beyond Churchill: the undervalued art of banknotes
Debika Ray asks why a growing number of countries are cashing in on animals, rather than historical figures, for the images on their banknotes
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
‘Few could combine arrogance, urbanity, charm and sangfroid like Delon, who thought “Monsieur Klein” the greatest film he’d ever made.’ Arjun Sajip on why Alain Delon’s greatest role, as an amoral art dealer in occupied France, is his most troubling
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Alain Delon’s greatest role is also his most troubling
As ‘Monsieur Klein’ turns 50, Joseph Losey’s film about an amoral art dealer is still a masterpiece of moral unease
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 30/09/2026
By the early 19th century, Hull was one of the key maritime hubs in Britain, and the centre of the whaling industry. At the city’s newly renovated maritime museum, Matthew Kerr revels in a collection of dockworkers’ tools, scrimshaw and much besides.
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Navigating Hull’s maritime history
Hull Maritime Museum has reopened after a six-year, £20m refit, and its extraordinary collection of art and artefacts of seafaring life is making waves once again, writes Matthew Kerr
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
‘One building is architecture but two buildings is townscape,’ wrote Gordon Cullen in his influential 1960s guide to urban planning. Will Wiles praises Cullen’s humane approach to design and the immensely skilful drawings in which he conveyed that vision.
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What today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionary
Gordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump has presented Xi Jinping with a sculpture of a bald eagle during the Chinese president’s state visit to the United States – but Rakewell can’t have been the first to notice its uncanny resemblance to the Mexican flag
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Diplomacy takes flight at the White House
President Trump has presented Xi Jinping with a sculpture of a bald eagle – but Rakewell can’t have been the first to notice its uncanny resemblance to the Mexican flag
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
A newly published catalogue raisonné of Brice Marden’s paintings – and an accompanying show in New York – shows how, for the artist, colour alone could speak multitudes, writes Morgan Falconer.
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Brice Marden, master of colour
Gagosian’s catalogue raisonné of Marden’s paintings and an accompanying survey in New York make it clear that, for the artist, colour alone could speak volumes, writes Morgan Falconer
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
Relationships between staff and management have taken a dive at national museums in the UK, including the V&A and the National Galleries of Scotland. Why are workers unhappy and what are institutions doing about it? Conrad Landin reports.
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National museums in the UK should expect more industrial action
Relationships between staff and management have taken a dive at institutions from the V&A to the National Galleries of Scotland. What can museums do about it? Conrad Landin reports
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
‘I have fantasies of owning one and freezing it, so I can present it to my guests, glistening.’ Bring back the oyster plate, says Molly Pepper Steemson
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Oysters demand elegance – let’s bring it back
A hunger for decorative oyster plates brings out Molly Pepper Steemson’s shellfish gene
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
This year’s edition of BIAF is in full swing. Michael Delgado rounds up some of the most enticing Old Master works to be found at the Florence fair.
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Old Masters to discover at Florence’s most important art fair
The long-running fair dedicated to Italian art rests on the quality of its pre-19th-century offerings – and there’s much to delight here, writes Michael Delgado
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
‘Korean pop culture is so hot right now, and we wanted to explore where that energy is coming from.’ Curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Lucy Waterson about the British Museum’s survey of 2,000 years of Korean art.
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Tracing 2,000 years of Korean art in London
Curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Apollo about the British Museum’s sweeping survey of art from the Korean peninsula
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 29/09/2026
The experimental images made by Wanda and Marion Wulz in the interwar years show these Italian women revelling in their personal and creative autonomy, writes Lucy Davies.
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The Trieste photographers who were a class sister act
The experimental images made by Wanda and Marion Wulz in the interwar years show these Italian women revelling in their personal and creative autonomy, writes Lucy Davies
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump has presented Xi Jinping with a sculpture of a bald eagle during the Chinese president’s state visit to the United States – but Rakewell can’t have been the first to notice its uncanny resemblance to the Mexican flag.
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Diplomacy takes flight at the White House
President Trump has presented Xi Jinping with a sculpture of a bald eagle – but Rakewell can’t have been the first to notice its uncanny resemblance to the Mexican flag
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
With banknotes bearing historical figures increasingly a culturally fraught prospect, no wonder a growing number of countries are putting their money on wildlife – or the other way round, writes Debika Ray.
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Beyond Churchill: the undervalued art of banknotes
Debika Ray asks why a growing number of countries are cashing in on animals, rather than historical figures, for the images on their banknotes
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
‘At their best Marden’s pictures don’t need all the allusive references attached to them; they hold their own, the paintings strongly bonded into a unity, compelling in their palette alone or in the weaving and shimmying of forms.’ Morgan Falconer on Brice Marden
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Brice Marden, master of colour
Gagosian’s catalogue raisonné of Marden’s paintings and an accompanying survey in New York make it clear that, for the artist, colour alone could speak volumes, writes Morgan Falconer
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
‘The way Losey moves Delon through space, isolating him or framing him in mirrors and panes of glass, helps pin down a figure who looks high and low for his double but is incapable of looking at himself.’ Arjun Sajip watches Joseph Losey’s ‘Monsieur Klein’
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Alain Delon’s greatest role is also his most troubling
As ‘Monsieur Klein’ turns 50, Joseph Losey’s film about an amoral art dealer is still a masterpiece of moral unease
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
‘The result is an intriguing experiment in democratised curation, substituting a sense of deliberate polish in the displays for a madcap cabinet-of-curiosities.’ Matthew Kerr visits the renovated Hull Maritime Museum in Yorkshire, and likes the cut of its jib.
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Navigating Hull’s maritime history
Hull Maritime Museum has reopened after a six-year, £20m refit, and its extraordinary collection of art and artefacts of seafaring life is making waves once again, writes Matthew Kerr
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
Gordon Cullen’s drawings for his 1960s guide to urban planning lend the subject a beguilingly romantic quality, writes Will Wiles.
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What today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionary
Gordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
As the British Museum prepares to open a sweeping survey of 2,000 years of Korean art, curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Lucy Waterson about the challenges and delights of mounting such an ambitious exhibition.
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Tracing 2,000 years of Korean art in London
Curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Apollo about the British Museum’s sweeping survey of art from the Korean peninsula
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
The Bank of England ran a public consultation this summer over which animals should feature on its banknotes, but what does it say that a growing number of countries are cashing in on wildlife, rather than historical figures, for the images on their currency? Debika Ray reports.
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Beyond Churchill: the undervalued art of banknotes
Debika Ray asks why a growing number of countries are cashing in on animals, rather than historical figures, for the images on their banknotes
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
Currently well under way, BIAF – Florence’s long-running art fair – has always rested on the quality of its Old Masters and a close relationship between dealers and visitors. Michael Delgado talks to its director, Bruno Botticelli, about what to expect at this year’s edition.
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Old Masters to discover at Florence’s most important art fair
The long-running fair dedicated to Italian art rests on the quality of its pre-19th-century offerings – and there’s much to delight here, writes Michael Delgado
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
Shuck and awe: Molly Pepper Steemson wishes we still ate oysters with a sense of occasion – and of style to match
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Oysters demand elegance – let’s bring it back
A hunger for decorative oyster plates brings out Molly Pepper Steemson’s shellfish gene
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 28/09/2026
‘This is, a lot of the time, a crime of passion.’ An agent from the FBI’s Art Crime team talks to Apollo about why criminals keep stealing art, what they do with hot property that’s too high-profile to sell, and how museums can guard against theft.
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Why are there so many museum heists?
As art thefts keep hitting the headlines, a special agent from the FBI’s Art Crime team talks to Lucy Waterson about why criminals keep stealing art that is almost impossible to sell and how…
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
‘Correggio laid the groundwork for the style that would dominate 17th-century Italian art.’ Andreas Plackinger and Steffi Bodechtel talk to Apollo about the Renaissance painter’s light touch.
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Earthly detail and celestial light: Correggio restored
The ‘Madonna of Saint Sebastian’ shows the painter imbuing an old subject with new life – and recent restoration has brought his mastery of colour to the fore, say Andreas Plackinger and Steffi Bodech...
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
‘“Townscape” was about establishing a vocabulary of what worked, and the quicksilver touches that make the difference between the barren and the enriching.’ Will Wiles praises Gordon Cullen’s visionary 1960s guide to urban planning.
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What today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionary
Gordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
B.J. Newton produced dozens of paintings while interned at Folsom Prison, documenting the inner workings of his mind and the visions he experienced. Zachary Ginsberg considers their strange power.
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In praise of Folsom Prison’s artist-in-residence
In the apocalyptic visions of B.J. Newton, who spent years in and out of the California penal system, we can see the abyss staring back at us, writes Zachary Ginsberg
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
‘Though some museums have offered workers modest increases in recent years, museum salaries have become harder to live on as the cost of living soars – especially in London.’ The result, writes Conrad Landin, is a wave of unrest across national museums in the UK.
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National museums in the UK should expect more industrial action
Relationships between staff and management have taken a dive at institutions from the V&A to the National Galleries of Scotland. What can museums do about it? Conrad Landin reports
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
At a conservation lab in Trastevere and at the neoclassical Villa Albani, Sophie Barling goes behind closed doors in Rome to visit the long-hidden collections of the Torlonia family.
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Behind the scenes at a very private Roman collection
In the last few years, a famously private collection of antiquities has become more public. Sophie Barling visits the Torlonia Foundation’s conservation lab and the Villa Albani to see the marbles at…
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
‘Korean pop culture is so hot right now, and we wanted to explore where that energy is coming from.’ Curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Lucy Waterson about the British Museum’s survey of 2,000 years of Korean art
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Tracing 2,000 years of Korean art in London
Curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Apollo about the British Museum’s sweeping survey of art from the Korean peninsula
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
Choosing which images to put on banknotes is as culturally fraught as it is technically difficult – and an increasing number of countries are opting for scenes from nature, writes Debika Ray.
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Beyond Churchill: the undervalued art of banknotes
Debika Ray asks why a growing number of countries are cashing in on animals, rather than historical figures, for the images on their banknotes
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
‘In shawls, hats, wigs, fans, kimonos; in biker goggles, flapper hats and bandeaux; as Cleopatra, and in modern clothing designed by their friend Anita Pittoni – on every wall these women glow.’ Lucy Davies on the Wulz sisters’ photographs, now at the Estorick Collection in London
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The Trieste photographers who were a class sister act
The experimental images made by Wanda and Marion Wulz in the interwar years show these Italian women revelling in their personal and creative autonomy, writes Lucy Davies
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 27/09/2026
Can Richard Dadd’s art ever be separated from his state of mind? ‘The drawings and paintings he created after the breakdown of his mental health have a level of imaginative freedom, playfulness, enigma and left-field psychological insight previously absent,’ writes Susan Owens.
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Richard Dadd, great Victorian painter
The artist’s catastrophic mental breakdown as a young man meant that he spent the rest of his life in confinement. His paintings, however, are among the most powerful of the age, writes Susan Owens
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