Apollo Magazine

‘That’s what painting is: giving form to an idea, a feeling, an experience. You try to give it a form that hopefully doesn’t exist already.’ Arjun Sajip visits Michael Armitage at his studio in Bali apollo-magazine.com/michael-armita…

Mackenzie Crooks’s BBC sitcom ‘Small Prophets’ taps into the weird roots of English suburbia, perfectly conveying the contradictions of a realm where nothing much is allowed in public and anything can happen in private, writes Will Wiles apollo-magazine.com/small-prophets…

An exhibition about Dutch and Flemish women artists in the long 18th century proves that, ‘contrary to modern-day belief, in their own time these women were not rare, underappreciated, or toiling away in obscurity’, says Lucy Davies apollo-magazine.com/women-artists-…

Hans Holbein the Younger is buried in an unmarked grave – an ironic end for an artist whose portraits shaped the public image of the most famous figures of the day. Tim Smith-Laing reads Elizabeth Goldring’s magisterial new biography of the painter apollo-magazine.com/hans-holbein-r…

The April issue of Apollo is out now, featuring Schiaparelli among the Surrealists, Italy’s oldest photographs, restoring Dresden’s crowning glory, making museums for young people, Charles and Ray Eames’ designs for modern living, and more apollo-magazine.com/issue/april-20…

Dorich House, the home and studio of the sculptor Dora Gordine, turns 90 years old this year – and is a valuable reminder of when Britain played host to the avant-garde, writes Edward Behrens apollo-magazine.com/dorich-house-d…

‘The most interesting visitors are wallabies, white and occasionally black cockatoos, bush rats, kangaroos, snakes [...] they quietly engage me with their curiosity and silent vigils.’ Elisabeth Cummings talks to Apollo about her studio near Sydney apollo-magazine.com/elisabeth-cumm…

Demand for Chinese jade objects has slowed in recent years – making now an ideal time to buy these miracles of craftsmanship, writes Emma Crichton-Miller apollo-magazine.com/chinese-jade-c…

‘There is something of Mägi’s fierce individualism in how Estonia sees itself – a product, perhaps, of having spent much of the last 500 years occupied by other countries.’ Arjun Sajip on the modernist art of Konrad Mägi apollo-magazine.com/konrad-magi-es…

Asia Week New York is in full swing. Its chair, Margaret Gristina, talks to Apollo about championing Asian art – and Apollo picks some of the artworks you shouldn’t miss apollo-magazine.com/asia-week-new-…

Three Donatello fragments, a portrait by Rembrandt’s star pupil and a sculpture of a well-travelled elephant were among the works that turned heads at TEFAF Maastricht this year apollo-magazine.com/tefaf-maastric…

Anthony van Dyck was one of the most successful portraitists in Europe, and should be regarded as the father of the English school of painting – but his reputation has suffered over the years. The time has come to admire his magic, writes Adam Eaker apollo-magazine.com/van-dyck-genoa…

In ‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’, Gianfranco Rosi turns the realities of life in the shadow of Vesuvius into pure cinema, writes Sophie Barling apollo-magazine.com/pompei-below-t…

‘Ovid’s Metamorphoses has been a transformational text for 2,000 years [...] Artists and writers in particular have always found it an inexhaustibly rich fund of material.’ Michael Prodger reviews a show at the Rijksmuseum about art influenced by Ovid apollo-magazine.com/ovid-metamorph…

In Jewish tradition, Torah scrolls are often embellished with ornaments, but rarely are they as elaborate as the Torah crown that is one of the most important objects in the Gilbert Collection apollo-magazine.com/torah-crown-vi…

From Charlton Heston writhing on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to Kirk Douglas’s dead ringer for Van Gogh, films about painters were prestige studio fare, even if the results were decidedly mixed, writes Todd McEwen apollo-magazine.com/hollywood-hist…

In Maastricht for TEFAF? From seascapes by Monet in Frankfurt to Ovidian visions in Amsterdam, there is no shortage of outstanding shows in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, all within easy reach of the fair apollo-magazine.com/beyond-tefaf-t…

Gainsborough’s portraits were prized, writes Susan Moore, not for ‘capturing a likeness but also in conjuring the shimmering, seductive surfaces of silks, the sheen of pearls and the delicacy of gauzy, diaphanous lace.’ apollo-magazine.com/gainsborough-f…

More than 260 dealers from 20 countries are bringing their finest wares to the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) this month. Anna Brady picks out some of the highlights not to be missed apollo-magazine.com/tefaf-maastric…

An exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum shows that for artists including Turner, Kandinsky and, of course, Van Gogh, the colour yellow could signify everything from rebirth to danger, writes Rod Mengham apollo-magazine.com/yellow-van-gog…