Is the Uffizi cueing up a problem?

Your digest of the top events, art news and gossip       Get more great writing every day – from just £1 a week     Edvard Munch Portraits National Portrait Gallery, London | 13 March–15 June Though often thought of as a shy character, Munch painted a wide network of friends and peers       100 Ideas of Happiness: Art Treasures from Korea Residenzschloss, Dresden | 15 March–10 August Korean art has a special relationship with contentment, as a display in Germany shows       Steina: Playback Buffalo AKG Art Museum | 14 March–30 June The video artist was a key member of the New York avant-garde in the 1970s and '80s       A World of Water Sainsbury Centre, Norwich | 15 March–3 August Charting the changing currents in how artists have depicted the oceans and seas         Ricardo Scofidio has died at the age of 89 | Bernd Ebert has been appointed director of the Dresden State Art Collections | George Lucas is taking over responsibility for everything you see at the Lucas Museum | a Brueghel painting stolen from Poland 50 years ago has been found in a Dutch museum         Is the Uffizi cueing up a problem?         SPONSORED CONTENT FROM   Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, who was born 260 years ago this week, created the first known photograph in around 1826: an image of his courtyard that required an eight-hour-long exposure. From these painstaking beginnings, photography rapidly evolved thanks to a series of innovations, from Louis Daguerre's daguerreotypes to William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype technique and, eventually, the democratisation of image-making through Kodak's consumer cameras. Here we explore four works that speak to photography's evolution from ambitious experiment to ubiquitous medium. This is part of our 'Four things to see' series that offers you a new way into some of the world's greatest collections, sponsored by Bloomberg Connects: the free arts and culture app.     More from Apollo Current issue | Advertise | Podcasts   View this email in your browser   Follow us Apollo Magazine, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP. All Articles and Content Copyright © 2025 by Apollo Magazine. All Rights Reserved. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe at any time. To ensure our emails are delivered to your inbox, please add Apollo to your email address book and safe-sender list.