Past Issue
July/August 2020
• An interview with Eric Fischl
• The rakish side of Raphael
• Andrea Palladio and the plague
• John Cage’s passion for mushrooms
Plus: the art of window dressing, a preview of Parcours des Mondes, the monumental achievements of the Olmecs – and the private individuals who are returning looted art
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
A novel look at Mantegna in Mantua
Inger Christensen’s reissued take on the artist’s time at the Gonzaga court is as experimental as his work would have seemed to contemporaries
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.
Salzburg, a city alive with the Sound of Music
Sixty years after the film’s release, locals are still surprised by visitors re-enacting a few of their favourite things
‘Real life’s actually more interesting than fiction’: an interview with Caroline Walker
As her largest museum show to date opens, the Scottish artist talks to Samuel Reilly about her tender paintings of women at work