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 ...

At the centre of Banco Santander’s former headquarters on the Paseo de Pereda is a monumental arch. Built in 1951 by Javier González de Riancho to join two neighbouring buildings, it belonged to a ...

From the April 2026 issue of Apollo. She would likely have been among the first to admit it, but Elsa Schiaparelli was not greatly talented as a seamstress. In an era when fashion designers were still ...

From the January 2026 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The long-anticipated opening of the first exhibition at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, in Edo State, southern ...

Assumption of the Virgin (c. 1650–55), Laurent de La Hyre Laurent de La Hyre, who was born in Paris in 1606, was one of the chief exponents of Parisian Atticism, a mid 17th-century neoclassical ...

From the October 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. William Hogarth always had an eye for an opportunity. Fresh from the success of A Rake’s Progress (1732–34), published in engraved ...

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 ...

Cl assical art is a heritage of loss. The great majority of the works of art produced in ancient Greece and Rome no longer survive. Paintings have rotted, crumbled or burned. Marble statues were ...

The ‘scrying glass’ belonging to the Elizabethan magician and astrologer John Dee, now in the British Museum, has long been regarded as one of the most enigmatic Tudor artefacts. While it was ...

Owen Hatherley’s new book is ‘The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century’ (Allen Lane). The book, which looks at the fields of photography, film, ...

Do we know Sèvres? We might know its useful wares of the 18th century: teacups with burnished gold handles, dishes rimmed in celestial blue, vases with pleasant vignettes in central roundels. We might ...

Abstraction is at the heart of The Mastermind, the latest film by Kelly Reichardt, which charts a bungled art heist at a fictional museum in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1970. There are the ...