Drones, video games and the NSA…
Paris is getting back into gear after the August exodus. What’s coming up in the city’s art calendar?
What’s next for the Los Angeles art world? A look ahead at some of the gallery openings and relocations coming up this autumn
The art world’s awake again after August’s sunny stasis. Which events stand out in London’s busy blockbuster season?
The problem with posthumous art; a bitter exit for France’s Culture Minister; and why you should plant a poppy at the Tower of London this autumn
Paul Cummins’ red field of poppies has been planted by volunteers, and is still growing
Cardinal Wolsey commissioned them, Henry VIII seized them, and now the V&A wants to preserve them
An exhibition of Garry Winogrand’s photography at the Metropolitan Museum includes many posthumous prints. Do they have a place there?
Bob and Roberta Smith stands up for art in schools; Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square; and the utopian appeal of geometric art
We spoke to the artist at the head of a campaign to keep creativity on the school curriculum
Jarr’s restaged message to ‘America’ feels as as relevant as ever
What’s behind the enduring appeal of geometry in modern art?
Are art installations the new video games? Are adverts the new art installations? News and comment from the Muse Room…
Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?
Cosy, co-dependent, sometimes antagonistic: the relationship between art and advertising is a complicated affair
Tate Britain’s ‘Kenneth Clark’ and ‘Folk Art’ shows looked at, and outside, the art-historical canon
Winslow Homer’s ‘Milking Time’ and Alexander Calder’s ‘The Black Crescent’ are next up
A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room
The Tate has been in the firing line in recent years; is recent criticism comparable to the infamous ‘Tate Affair’ of 1952–54?
The UK’s monuments will go dark this evening, marking 100 years since the start of the First World War
The magnificent entrance has been meticulously spruced up
40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays
Why museums should put their objects online
‘Making Colour’ and ‘Building the Picture’ point out details in paintings that are easily overlooked
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
Post-Surveillance: Suzanne Treister’s riposte to ‘Post-Internet’ art
Drones, video games and the NSA…