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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. Since the invention of electric lighting, designers, architects, engineers and artists have been enthralled with the possibilities that this light source presents. This display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston explores how lighting design has evolved over the last century, from elaborate electric chandeliers to the humble desk lamp. Devices designed by 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. Edward Steichen was hailed as ‘the greatest photographer that ever lived’ by none other than Alfred Stieglitz – but his early career as a painter is less well known. His most ambitious work in that medium, a seven-panel mural completed in 1913, is at the centre of this display, which arrives at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, on the lates...

Picasso’s  Guernica (1937) is among the most stinging visual protests against the horrors of war. In 2017 the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid launched ‘Rethinking Guernica’, an interactive digital resource that offers multiple routes through the vast body of research that has been conducted on the painting – from documentation of the creation of the work and its initial reception to the many interpretations it has since accrued. Gigapixel photography enables viewers to explore the canvas up close in normal light, ultraviolet, infrared and X-Ray. This month the museum announced that th...

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. Acquired by Charles I in 1623, the seven surviving cartoons for the tapestries Raphael completed for the Sistine Chapel have since 1865 been on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Last year – the 500th anniversary of the Italian master’s death – the V&A embarked on a refurbishment to its Raphael Court, with the aim of presenting these scenes from 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. Margel Hinder’s fluid abstractions in metal can be found installed in public spaces throughout Australia. But if her work is instantly recognisable, Hinder’s name – and her career as one of the country’s most prolific and original sculptors of the 20th century – is less well known. The Art Gallery of New South Wales is hosting the first major survey o...