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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Scottish art with a bright outlook

2 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore

Marking the centenary of the first group show of the quartet now known as the Scottish Colourists, this ambitious and provocative exhibition is the initiative of the Fleming Collection and has been organised by its curator emeritus, James Knox. It aims to set the work of these four Scots in a wider British and European context, supplementing the foundation’s own holdings with generous loans from the Tate and less well-known public and private collections.
Loewe thinks outside the box

3 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens

This year’s edition of the Smithsonian Design Triennial, ‘Making Home’, which is currently on show at the Cooper Hewitt in New York, is rooted firmly in the conventional ideas of what a home is – at least on the ground floor, though each room takes the idea further than the average homeowner might consider possible. A number of artists have created installations that explore what is at stake in these interiors.
Gordon Baldwin (1932-2025) | Apollo Magazine

3 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Emma Crichton-Miller

In the early 1960s, the artist Gordon Baldwin, who died last month at the age of 93, was approached by the Mayfair gallerists McRoberts & Tunnard. They had seen black-and-white images of his arresting sculptures and wanted to know what they were made from.
Hans Hess and German Expressionism

3 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Conrad Landin

The modern artist, Hans Hess declared in a lecture in 1964, ‘thinks of himself as an independent genius, but he is only a tool in that greater social machinery which owns and controls him’. This observation was typical for an art historian determined – as the art historian Quentin Bell put it – to confront not so much ‘the facts of life’ as ‘the more dangerous facts of class’.
The twisting, turning art of Ruth Asawa

3 weeks 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 Met’s Rockefeller Wing is standing tall

3 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Helen Stoilas

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. For many visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in recent years, the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing was a part of the museum that was rushed through, a darkly lit shortcut from the Greek and Roman galleries to the modern and contemporary art wing, the special exhibition galleries and the elevators to the rooftop garden.
The bare necessities of art

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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?

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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.