Ed Behrens

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1925, a small group of art lovers including the dealer Joseph Duveen and the art historian Tancred Borenius published the first issue of Apollo. They came from a cultural tradition that was as international as it was British. Just as the magazine’s owners, editor and publishers shared an outlook not confined by borders, geographical or otherwise, so too did the writing.

1 week ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens

For the artist Oliver Osborne, 2025 is shaping up to be quite the year. He has one exhibition at Union Pacific in London (until 31 May), and another at Frances Irv in New York (until 14 June); in the autumn a retrospective of his work is going to open at the Fondazione ICA Milano. Osborne, who was born in London but now lives and works in Berlin, is perhaps best known for having repeatedly painted that badge of hipster chic, the rubber plant.

1 month ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens |Isabella Smith |Michael Delgado |Hettie Judah

In this issue The National Gallery’s great revealAn interview with Caroline WalkerWhen art deco went to the moviesOn tour with the Von TrappsAlso: Virginia Woolf’s Sussex retreat, single-owner sales, Suzanne Valadon’s move from model to artist, Duccio’s drink of choice, and previews of Frieze New York and TEFAF New York; in reviews: Anselm Kiefer in Oxford and Amsterdam, chinoiserie at the Met, and high fashion at the Louvre.

2 months ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens

Not many people expect to find Antonio Banderas in Tokyo. But there he is, or at least there he is on a screen, in ‘Crafted World’, an exhibition mounted by Loewe in Japan to tell the fashion house’s story of craft. The notion of a Spanish leather company owned by a French luxury conglomerate putting on a show in East Asia is not as far-fetched as it might seem. Loewe first expanded to Japan in 1973, opening a concession in Nihombashi Mitsukoshi in Tokyo, the country’s first department store.

2 months ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens

For the past 10 or so years, there has been a concerted effort to rehabilitate Anni Albers so that she is taken as seriously as Josef, her husband. Josef was a tutor at the Bauhaus while Anni was a student there. He taught drawing and lettering; she learned weaving, set upon this thread by Walter Gropius, who didn’t think women could handle the labour of metalwork or painting.