Past Issue
April 2018
• Ferdinand Hodler’s legacy in Geneva
• An interview with Christian Boltanski
• Modern British art and the countryside
• Qajar portraits in 19th-century Iran
Plus: Decimus Burton’s glasshouses at Kew, Italian art from the Fascist period, Christiane Baumgartner’s woodcuts, and much more
Inside this issue
Past issues
May 2025
All change at the National Gallery | An interview with Caroline Walker | On tour with the Von Trapps
April 2025
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue | An interview with Oliver Beer | How the Acropolis became modern
March 2025
How to give back looted objects | An interview with Alex Da Corte | Versailles enters the 21st century
February 2025
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
More from Apollo
Celia Paul faces the ghosts of her past
In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co.
The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie
Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
How to give back looted objects
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections
Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation