Apollo is proud to reveal the Apollo 40 Under 40 Asia Pacific – the 9th edition of our list of inspirational artists and creative innovators. Explore the full list here, supported by
@yieldstreet
and
@Athena_Art_Fin
From manuscripts to memes, and back again:
@alixebovey
considers the irony of
@WeirdMedieval
being turned into a book – and, after recent digital disruptions, wonders if paper isn’t the safest bet in the long run
His Majesty King Charles III hosted a state banquet for the South Korean president last week, but for
@Rakewelltweets
the real excitement was the presence of Blackpink in the area
In our pick of contemporary art exhibitions in the year ahead: Yoko Ono and Sophie Calle have major retrospectives, Chantal Akerman is the centre of attention in Brussels and craft looms large in museums
This depiction of Devi, the Great Goddess, is thought to be one of the very oldest Pahari paintings – on show at the newly opened exhibition
@metmuseum
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Gavin Stamp, Apollo’s architecture columnist since 2004 – and one of the most lucid, knowledgeable and defiant architecture critics of his or any generation.
Vivienne Westwood’s favourite museum was the Wallace Collection, and her clothes were full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard
#fromthearchives
.
@mauritshuis
has purchased a rare still-life by Balthasar van der Ast, one of only two known Dutch paintings from the 17th century to show a solitary tulip.
In ‘Tropical Modernism’, the Victoria and Albert Museum explores a mid-century architectural movement that fused modernist aesthetics with post-colonial sensibilities in India and Ghana. It’s one of Apollo’s Art Diary picks
'In my 25-year career as a museum director, I have not seen a more challenging time to be an arts leader' –
@artsmia
director Kaywin Feldman on the need for agile cultural leadership in a volatile world
@KaywinFeldman
Listen: in a new Apollo podcast, Mark Gatiss discusses his lifelong fascination with the painter John Minton ahead of the release of his film, John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art on
@BBCFOUR
@Markgatiss
‘Often the most appropriate frame is the most invisible frame.’
Meet the National Gallery’s head of framing,
@psframes
, who quietly transforms how the UK’s masterpieces are seen
Four watercolours by Sylvia Pankhurst, recording the working conditions of women in various industries in 1907, are among the
@Tate
’s recent acquisitions
Christo has died at the age of 84. With his partner, Jeanne-Claude, he wrapped the Reichstag and the Pont Neuf – and was working on a project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe later this year. Claire Barliant interviewed him for the March issue of Apollo.
The Surrender of Breda (c. 1635), 'that masterful prospectus for clemency', is one of the Prado museum’s many masterpieces by Diego Velázquez, who died
#OTD
in 1660
‘It will be a rare visitor who...does not come away wishing that they too could live in a house by the sea with no phone or electricity.’ Tom Fleming on ‘Charmed Lives in Greece’ at the
@britishmuseum
A first for the Frick (
@frickcollection
) and a Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay (
@MuseeOrsay
) are among the most important works to enter museum collections this month
Roman painters did not often train their daughters to be artists, making Artemisia Gentileschi one of the few Roman women of the period to receive professional training from her father
The Roman emperor Trajan was born
#OnThisDay
in 53 AD. Here's what Tristram Hunt had to say about the V&A's recently renewed Cast Courts, in which Trajan's Column is a star exhibit
Louise Nicholson reviews a small but perfectly formed show at the
@metmuseum
exploring images of divinity in 17th- and 18th-century court paintings in north India
The French pioneer of photography Louis Daguerre was born
#OTD
in 1787. From our archives, here's Gavin Stamp on photography's early history – in Edinburgh, not Paris
Late medieval gold is vanishingly rare, so a metal detectorist’s recent discovery in the Midlands may be a truly spectacular find, writes Christina Faraday
‘It was the Great Fire that allowed the scientist Christopher Wren to emerge as an architect’ – from our archives, Gavin Stamp on the London buildings designed by Wren (who was born
#OTD
in 1632)
The Flemish baroque painter Michaelina Wautier is finally getting her due this summer, but it has taken the curator of the exhibition 25 years to get her here.
‘Charles I: King and Collector’ has won the Apollo Exhibition of the Year Award 2018. Read more about this major act of historical reconstruction
@royalacademy
‘Three finished works that are among the most ravishing essays in light and colour ever to have been produced by a landscape painter’ – Andrew Wilton on Turner’s views of Mount Rigi
Edward Hopper, the great painter of urban solitude, was born
#OTD
in 1882. Here Nicholas Hatfull looks at his lesser-known landscapes; still desolate, of course
‘Hopper’s technique never telegraphs its skilfulness; his paintings seduce the viewer by slowly turning an invisible dial of intensity’ – on Edward Hopper at the
@Fond_Beyeler
(until 26 July)