Apollo Magazine

The photographer Fiona Pardington talks to Apollo about how she prepared to represent New Zealand at this year’s Venice Biennale – despite not having a studio apollo-magazine.com/fiona-pardingt…

‘Whistler was obsessed with depicting the play of light across reflective surfaces, whether a firework reflected on water or a face reflected in a mirror.’ Tara Contractor on how the painter used metallic pigments to make his work really shine apollo-magazine.com/whistler-metal…

The market for furniture by mid-century French designers is as sturdy as a Jean Prouvé table or a hippo-cum-drinks cabinet by François-Xavier Lalanne, writes Emma Crichton-Miller apollo-magazine.com/french-mid-cen…

In Steven Soderbergh’s film ‘The Christophers’, Ian McKellen’s once-celebrated artist hasn’t put brush to canvas in decades. Production designer Antonia Lowe talks to Arjun Sajip about how creating his cluttered, crusted-over studio was a gift of a project apollo-magazine.com/the-christophe…

At the National Gallery Singapore, the winner of this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize – and the other shortlisted works – offer an invigorating vision of the possibilities of making, writes Edward Behrens apollo-magazine.com/loewe-foundati…

‘It is hard to name a more compelling continuation of the tradition of kinetic art into the contemporary era anywhere in the world.’ Samuel Reilly on the threats faced by the Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, an offbeat gem of Glasgow’s art scene apollo-magazine.com/sharmanka-kine…

Martin Wong excelled at stagy scenes of San Francisco’s Chinatown as well as moody New York nocturnes. Claire Barliant reviews an exhibition that sees the painter working in both modes apollo-magazine.com/martin-wong-pa…

Online sales were once hailed as the future of the market, but despite well-funded efforts to shift transactions on to the web, they are still outpaced by IRL auctions, writes Jane Morris apollo-magazine.com/online-sales-d…

The painter Angel Otero talks to Apollo about his studio life in New York and Puerto Rico, where music – be it bossa nova or hip hop – is always playing in the background, and young peoples’ opinions on his art are welcome apollo-magazine.com/angel-otero-in…

Some important Richters are being auctioned by Christie’s New York this month. Coming from the personal collection of his long-time dealer, Marian Goodman, they have more to say than most works about the art market past and present, writes Edward Behrens apollo-magazine.com/gerhard-ricthe…

Marcel Duchamp is one of the 20th century’s best-known artists, yet his work is often misunderstood, writes Nicole Rudick. Now, a major US retrospective seeks to show the philosophy behind his provocative readymades apollo-magazine.com/marcel-duchamp…

There’s plenty of arresting art among the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale, but the most memorable pavilion might be the one that was officially cancelled, writes Hettie Judah apollo-magazine.com/venice-biennal…

Portmeirion, the Italianate village designed by Clough Williams-Ellis on the north Wales coast, is celebrating its centenary this year. Gillian Darley clamours to be a prisoner there apollo-magazine.com/portmeirion-cl…

Tate Britain’s survey of Hurvin Anderson’s paintings lays bare the artist’s ability to balance feelings of openness and estrangement in a single work, writes Digby Warde-Aldam apollo-magazine.com/hurvin-anderso…

‘This is a vast and diverse show, but its generosity is its downfall.’ Hettie Judah reviews ‘In Minor Keys’, the central exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale apollo-magazine.com/venice-biennal…

In the run-up to the release of the Rolling Stones’ new album, Rakewell considers the debt of its cover artist to Francis Bacon – and how Bacon was intrigued by Mick Jagger. apollo-magazine.com/rolling-stones…

A historic 18th-century salver from the collection of Robert Walpole is a relic from a world of political perks and exquisite craftsmanship, writes Edward Behrens apollo-magazine.com/auction-robert…

Abbas Akhavan looks to the natural world to invoke the slow cycles of the planet. As he prepares to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, the artist tells Hettie Judah, he wants us to think again about how we relate to our surroundings apollo-magazine.com/abbas-akhavan-…

‘If Raphael was interested in women, they were interested in him too.’ Sheila Barker on a neglected side of the artist’s life and work, now given new emphasis at the Met apollo-magazine.com/raphael-women-…

In Marrakech, the textile artist Amina Agueznay talks to Lucy Waterson about representing Morocco in its first appearance among the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale apollo-magazine.com/amina-agueznay…