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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, including Rodin’s  Thinker and Arp’s 

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 begin. The show, which includes masterpieces by the likes of Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Dyck a...

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 his Impressionist-influenced Bavarian landscapes and Venetian harbour scenes. After returning to the U...

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 they also frequently call to mind mountain views or seascapes, and indeed Weatherford’s paintings ...

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 kingdom (in modern-day Ghana) are displayed alongside prestigious robes made in the Hausa and Yoruba reg...