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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. The second half of the 19th century saw a profusion of flamboyant pottery, spurred by the invention in Britain of ‘majolica’ – a new form of earthenware, which took its cues from the  maiolica ceramics of Renaissance Italy but which could be produced on an industrial scale. Eccentric designs and vivid, polychrome glazes abounded on both sides of the Atl...

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. Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert amassed more than 1,000 masterworks of European craftsmanship over the course of their lifetime, ranging from jewellery to snuff-boxes and from metalwork to mosaics. The collection is on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which has arranged this travelling exhibition of around 100 objets d’art from the c...

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. Egypt’s famous burial customs continued long after the rule of the pharaohs had ended. With eight resplendent mummies, this show at North Carolina Art Museum (6 March–11 July) explores how Egyptian culture was influenced by the Greeks and the Romans between the third century BC and the second century AD. Drawn from the Manchester Museum’s collections, the...

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. Since adopting the party-crashing persona of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire in the early 1980s, Lorraine O’Grady has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptual art. This career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum (5 March–18 July) focuses on 12 major projects over the past four decades – including  Miscegenated Family Album (1994), a photo-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. Thanks to the easing of Covid restrictions in Switzerland, the Kunsthaus Zürich is reopening on 2 March, bringing a second chance to explore the work of Ottilie W. Roederstein. Exceptionally successful in her lifetime, the Swiss artist was largely forgotten after her death in 1937. She spent much of her early career painting portraits and still lifes – conve...