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Paris's youngest major museum is all grown up
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (61+ words) Apollo " The International Art Magazine The Mus'e du Quai Branly is 20 this year. It has long aspired to be a place of post-colonial dialogue between cultures. Is this finally becoming a reality? By Samuel Reilly, 30 June 2026 From the July/August…...
How C'te d'Ivoire's capital scaled up
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (89+ words) Apollo " The International Art Magazine When F'lix Houphou't-Boigny became president of the newly independent C'te d'Ivoire in 1960, he planned a vast new capital. Today Yamoussoukro's oversized architecture makes for a curious legacy By Andrew Jones, 30 June 2026 And huge the 368 columns…...
The understated genius of Michael Andrews
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (288+ words) By Digby Warde-Aldam, 30 June 2026 The singular paintings of one of the unshowier School of London painters are ripe for discovery Almost a decade on, Christopher Lloyd's book on Andrews arrives bearing two subtexts: first, that Andrews was a distinctly British…...
The French artists with a keen eye for fashion
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (52+ words) Apollo " The International Art Magazine By Tom Stammers, 30 June 2026 The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s by Susan Siegfried is published by Yale University Press. From the July/August 2026 issue of Apollo. " 2026 Apollo Magazine...
Once upon a time in America
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (534+ words) The New York Historical has been charting America's history for more than two centuries. What does a brand new wing dedicated to democracy add to the story? By Allison C. Meier, 30 June 2026 "When we were established, there was no New York…...
The forgers who remade Islamic ceramics
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (58+ words) By Tom Hardwick, 30 June 2026 What happened to artefacts in museums before they went on display? A lively new study gives us the fuller picture Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics by Margaret S. Graves is published by…...
The Czechs who brought cubism to architecture
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (22+ words) Apollo " The International Art Magazine By Edwin Heathcote, 30 June 2026 " 2026 Apollo Magazine...
Earthly paradises in Enlightenment France
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (115+ words) By Gabriel Wick, 30 June 2026 The Bathing Pool (177779; detail). Hubert Robert. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York While Capability Brown achieved a natural look with great artifice in England, French landscape gardens were overtly experimental fantasies While the anglo-chinois gardens were…...
The American collectors for whom West is best
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (215+ words) Apollo " The International Art Magazine The American collectors for whom West is best By Jane Morris, 29 June 2026 Open Range (1942; detail), Maynard Dixon. Courtesy Coeur d'Alene Art Auction From the July/August 2026 issue of Apollo. Despite the hundreds of events taking…...
The dark arts of Francisco de Zurbar'n
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (48+ words) Apollo " The International Art Magazine By Isabelle Kent, 29 June 2026 The Spanish baroque master's magnetic paintings at last get their place in the London sun "Zurbar'n' is at the National Gallery, London, until 23 August. " 2026 Apollo Magazine...