From the June 2026 issue of Apollo. Anyone with a passing interest in cricket will know about the 1981 Ashes series, remembered chiefly for the third test at Headingley, in which Ian Botham dragged ...

From the October 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. William Hogarth always had an eye for an opportunity. Fresh from the success of A Rake’s Progress (1732–34), published in engraved ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) began collecting Impressionist art in 1929, when the real-estate developer and sometime Chicago Times editor William Preston Harrison donated 10 paintings ...

Brussels is still a city contending with stereotypes (big on bureaucracy and moules frites; low on high-octane excitement) but there are, of course, other stories to be told about it, some of them ...

Long after David Sassoon’s descendants had entered the highest echelons of English society, their collecting reflected the family’s ties to the Middle East, India and China As Nahson and Da Costa ...

The new director of the Frick Collection will be Axel Rüger of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London. He has served as secretary and chief executive of the RA since 2019, after being director of ...

In 1972 the British Museum’s display of 50 objects from the tomb of King Tutankhamun attracted 1.6 million visitors, and became the paradigm for the blockbuster exhibition as an unmissable, ...

Last week, the BBC aired what’s likely to be the final instalment of its coverage of what has been called the biggest dig at Pompeii in a generation. Two years ago, excavations began at a block on Via ...

Family histories are rarely straightforward. When it comes to Bernard Leach (1887–1979), often dubbed ‘the father of British studio pottery’, the relationship between the patriarch and his potting ...

On the quincentenary of his death, few, if any, of Hieronymus Bosch’s contemporaries can claim a similar level of continuing fame. He is a major draw at museums, but his reach extends far beyond: in ...

In the early 16th century, a Roman coin bearing the image of a crocodile chained to a palm branch was unearthed at Nîmes in the south of France. On the obverse were profile portraits, back to back, of ...

A crop of films about being trapped inside the house by mysterious forces points to lingering post-pandemic fears and paranoia about the future In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard notes that ...