Announcing the Apollo Awards 2025 shortlists

APOLLO ANNOUNCES THE SHORTLISTS FOR THE APOLLO AWARDS 2025   Dating back to 1992, the Apollo Awards celebrate major achievements in the art and museum worlds, commending remarkable work by individuals and institutions in historical and contemporary fields. The winners of the 2025 Awards and the Apollo Award for Personality of the Year will be announced at a ceremony in London on the evening of 20 November, when they will also be published online. All the winners and the shortlists will be featured in the December issue of the magazine.   Artist   William Kentridge Hew Locke Jenny Saville Wael Shawky Amy Sherald Caroline Walker     Museum Opening   Frick Collection New York Metropolitan Museum of Art – Michael C. Rockefeller Wing New York Museu de Arte de São Paulo São Paulo Museum of Modern Art Warsaw National Gallery – Sainsbury Wing London V&A East Storehouse London     Exhibition   Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today Bard Graduate Center, New York Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Château de Chantilly Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York National Gallery, London Jack Whitten: The Messenger Museum of Modern Art, New York Fra Angelico Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Florence     Digital Innovation   Aracne Getty Provenance Index Marks on Art Romare Bearden Catalogue Raisonné Project Trois Crayons Museum Forum UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects       Book   Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco Tim Blanning Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500–1900 Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny; revised and amplified by Adriano Aymonino and Eloisa Dodero Art in a State of Siege Joseph Leo Koerner Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers Jean Strouse     Acquisition   More than 2,000 works of French art from the collection of Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz Art Institute of Chicago The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen (early 1420s), Fra Angelico Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1,700 Chinese ceramics from the Sir Percival David Foundation British Museum, London Fata Morgana (c. 1572), Giambologna Cleveland Museum of Art Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969), Francis Bacon Los Angeles County Museum of Art 123 works by Cy Twombly Menil Collection, Houston Triton (1653), Gian Lorenzo Bernini Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Iva (1973), Joan Mitchell Tate Modern, London     Personality of the Year   Will be announced on Thursday 20 November     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.