Apollo

Apollo is a highly regarded monthly magazine published in English that focuses on visual arts from ancient times to the modern era.

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#323839

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#62950

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#86

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The twisting, turning art of Ruth Asawa

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Jonathan Griffin

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The black-and-white photograph shows a wood-panelled room with a pitched roof of dark redwood beams. A low table is pushed cosily up against a large brick hearth, and around it several children sit in easy chairs, one reading, others busily engaged in craft activities. At a piano, a girl strokes a cat, while a dog basks in the sunlight that slants across a large rug.
The bare necessities of art

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Hettie Judah

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The cover of the first copy of this magazine carried the divine profile of the marble sculpture known as the Apollo Belvedere, a fitting motif for a mag that (at the time) covered both art and music. Question Apollo’s musical supremacy at your peril – Marsyas paid for such hubris with his skin. Considered the epitome of male beauty, the god inspired the earliest nudes in Greek art.
Vanessa Bell deserves higher billing

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Emily Cox

This review of Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical by Wendy Hitchmough appears in the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1916, Vanessa Bell moved to Sussex with her lover Duncan Grant, his lover David Garnett and the two sons she had by her husband, Clive, who paid visits to the unconventional ménage with his latest flame, Mary, in tow.
Can art survive the AI juggernaut?

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Tim Smith-Laing

This review of Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl appears in the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. During the second half of the 20th century the favoured metaphor for the effortless and detached exercise of power was ‘the push of a button’. It linked everyone from ordinary citizens through to the leaders of nations, for whom this same gesture could activate anything from an ice maker to nuclear war.
Apollo at 100 | Apollo Magazine

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.
Goodwood gets more glorious

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Goodwood’s new Art Foundation is nothing if not ambitious. Its catalyst was in part the closure in 2020 of the Cass Sculpture Foundation, a charity which had for nearly 30 years rented 26 acres of this historic Sussex estate for the commissioning and display of contemporary British sculpture.
The business of commemorative ceramics

5 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Emma Crichton-Miller

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In December 2008 a tin-glazed earthenware armorial dish, elaborately moulded and painted in blue, orange, yellow and manganese, came up for sale at Bonhams London. Made in c. 1649–51 and signed with the initials REN, the dish came from the Pickle-herring Quay pottery, pioneers in English delftware, established in Southwark by Christian Wilhelm in around 1618. The dish commemorates the union of the Markham and Faringe families.
Audio gets visual at the Barbican

1 week ago | apollo-magazine.com | Sam Davies

The vibe at ‘Feel the Sound’, the Barbican’s new exhibition exploring the art of sound and listening, is practically evangelical. ‘Sound is a portal to infinite possibilities,’ its blurb promises visitors at the entrance. ‘When we expand the potential of listening beyond hearing it becomes a deeper experience – we can feel it, touch it, see it.’ So far, so synaesthetic. Sign me up. ‘Summon moments from the past. Forge powerful collective memories in the present.
Face to face with Oliver Osborne

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.
Review: Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

2 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Evan Moffitt

Architecture is in crisis. Construction is responsible for nearly 40 per cent of global carbon emissions, but architects can hardly afford to stop designing buildings. The curatorial team for the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, led by Carlo Ratti, invited architects and designers to propose solutions to this problem in an open call; more than 280 projects by 750 participants made the final cut for this year’s show, titled ‘Intelligens. Artificial. Natural.