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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 challenge the narratives of the past presented by public memorials. The exhibition includes installa...

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 covering subjects across art, literature, music and politics; his biographical documentaries include por...

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 1588, have rarely been exhibited before; viewable here in high definition and arranged, in the words o...

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 century (until 4 April). The exhibition looks in particular at care in times of crisis, exploring how ...

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 papers documenting the activities of the Khalidis, a prominent Palestinian family, since the 18th cen...