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While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. In recent months monuments have become a focal point in debates over the nature of historical memory. This display at the University of South Florida (USF) Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa (22 January–6 March) looks at a series of artists’ interventions that ...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. The influence of Mike Dibb on the genre of the television documentary is unparalleled. He remains best known for Ways of Seeing, the six-part BBC series he made with John Berger in 1972, but over the course of his long career he has directed dozens of films cove...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. Marking the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Uffizi has launched a virtual exhibition of Federico Zuccari’s illustrations after the Florentine poet’s  Divine Comedy. These beautiful and intricate drawings, completed between 1586 and 15...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. The Philadelphia Museum of Art reopened, along with five other institutions in the city, on 8 January, offering another chance to see this broad-ranging display of artworks, posters and archival materials relating to the provision of medical care over the last ce...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. The Khalidi Library, which opened in Jerusalem in 1900, boasts one of the largest private collections of Arabic manuscripts in the world; it comprises some 1,200 titles, with the oldest dating back around 1,000 years, as well as around 5,500 printed volumes and p...

Hans Arp’s Automatic Sculpture (Homage to Rodin) of 1938 forms the starting point of this exhibition, the first to compare these two major modern sculptors who were born half a century apart. The display reveals how Arp, who in 1952 also wrote a poem entitled  Rodin, picked up and reinterpreted ideas that his predecessor had pioneered – for instance, the interplay of fluid and fragmented forms and surface textures. Among more than 110 works on display are masterpieces by both artists, i...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. Sixty-five key paintings in the Royal Collection, usually hung in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, went on public display together for the first time at the start of this month – in the Queen’s Gallery, to allow for renovation works on the palace to ...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. This is the first major exhibition for 30 years devoted to Cincinnati’s favourite artistic son. Born in Covington in 1848, Frank Duveneck moved to Munich for his studies in the 1860s. He remained in Europe until 1888, and among the 125 works on show here are hi...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. Mary Weatherford has incorporated neon tubing into her paintings since 2012, when she became fascinated by the signage she saw while driving around the city of Bakersfield in California. These luminous, abstract canvases are often evocative of urban life – but ...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. Drawn from the Dallas Museum of Art’s significant holdings of silks from sub-Saharan Africa, this display offers an overview of sericulture in the region from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. Handwoven  kente cloths worn by the royals of the Asante king...