Sixty years ago the Royal Academy announced the sale of a cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci to fund its activities, but did it make the right decision?
All that remains of the city’s two medieval castles is the empty shell of a single tower, now imaginatively restored by Hugh Broughton Architects
Judging where to draw the line between maintaining a safe silence and tacitly endorsing the war in Ukraine has become a pressing matter
The artist produced some of his most innovative and political works at the age of 80 by burning and torturing his canvases and also turning to textiles
Curator James Green takes a close look at a carving by Bamigboye, a sculptor who represented the beating heart of his community in the early 20th century
As museums make promises to return looted works of art, provenance is now of paramount importance in the market
The graphic designer Jean Carlu was the first artist to create a label for the historic wine estate in 1924, marking the beginning of a long-standing tradition
This month’s highlights include a silver casket that may have played a part in the downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots
As the Manhattan skyline keeps getting higher, the quality of the skyscrapers crowding the horizon seems to be getting lower and lower
Christians in the Middle Ages believed that there was no bad weather in paradise after the Creation and before the Fall of Man
A completely overlooked painting, left out of the artist’s catalogue raisonné, makes the case for an unexpectedly messier and much more interesting career
The University of Padua may be 800 years old, but this ancient institution is also home to masterpieces of 20th-century design
With a new book dedicated to William Kent's Houghton Hall ceilings, Apollo takes a closer look at the depiction of Venus in the Green Velvet Drawing Room
Though France is now better known for its winemaking industry, the country owes the survival of its connoisseurship to Algeria
Carmen Giménez, the curator of an upcoming exhibition in Basel, talks to Apollo about the modernist’s lifelong debt to the Old Master
Exhibitions can successfully capture a cultural and social moment, but they are as much a glimpse into the mindset of the curators as they are into the art of that time
The gallery’s gloomy dining room is now a thing of the past. The restaurant has an elegant new look and menu to match
The Armenian businessman had a taste for portable items of beauty and cherished his collection as though it were an extension of himself
A terrifically grumpy portrait of Goya and a mythical landscape by Paul Bril are among this month’s highlights
Pierre Terjanian of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells Apollo why a Renaissance pageant shield is such a beguiling work of art
The American painter may be famed for a chaotic approach, but in reality he had complete command of his materials – and he owed his technique to a printmaker
The artist’s motivations for painting hooded Ku Klux Klan figures were as complicated and unsettling as our reactions as viewers might be
The painter’s contemporaries saw him as a successor to Sargent, but his depictions of Black and queer subjects may stand out more today
Blending wine, art and hospitality, Viña Vik wine estate invites visitors to indulge in the totality of aesthetic pleasure
