Venice in peril, from inflatable crocodiles

Your digest of the top events, art news and gossip       Get more great writing every day – from just £1 a week     Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | 1 July–8 Mar 2026 John Singer Sargent wasn't the only member of his family who was handy with a brush       Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World Art Institute of Chicago | 29 June–5 Oct The Impressionist's masterful depictions of people at work and play       Crossings: Photography from the Indian Subcontinent Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | 4 July–12 Oct Nineteenth-century photographs are joined by hand-coloured contemporary images       Terraphilia: Beyond the Human in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid | 1 July–24 Sept Five centuries of art depicting our complex relationship with the natural world         The Tate has set up an endowment fund – and wants it to reach £150m by 2030 | Vancouver Art Gallery is making 30 staff members redundant | in Belgium, Hew Locke's commission to reinterpret a statue of Leopold II has been cancelled | Xavier Salomon will be the new director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon | Nick Merriman is stepping down as CEO of English Heritage         Venice in peril, from inflatable crocodiles         On Wednesday 2 July at 6.30pm, Pooja Singhal, founder of the atelier Pichvai: Tradition & Beyond, and Edward Behrens, editor of Apollo, are in conversation to inaugurate a landmark exhibition of Pichvai art from the miniature schools of Rajasthan to London. Pichvai is a detailed, hand-painted textile traditionally hung behind the idol of Shrinathji, a cherubic incarnation of Lord Krishna. This is the first exhibition of the art form in the UK and will include some 400 hand-painted works from the past 100 years, to allow visitors to get to know the historical significance of this centuries-old art form and its evolution. The event is taking place at the Mall Galleries in London. Click here to book your place.       SPONSORED CONTENT FROM     Eighty-five years ago this week, Paul Klee – painter, musician and one of the most influential art theorists of the 20th century – died, leaving behind not only extraordinary artworks but transformative ideas about colour. Unlike many of his predecessors, who approached colour theory in a more mechanistic fashion, Klee's work revealed colour to be a particularly charged property, able to suggest weight, temperature and movement. His insights into colour emerged from his close study of artists such as Cézanne, whose watercolours demonstrated how multiple translucent colour patches could create vibrating, prismatic effects. In turn, Klee's teachings have been put into practice by generations of artists. This week we explore four works that engage in very different ways with theories of colour. This is part of our 'Four things to see' series, which offers you a new way in to 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.