Past Issue
October 2019
• The crowded scenes of William Hogarth
• Are curators getting enough credit?
• An interview with Kiki Smith
• Derek Jarman’s visions of England
Plus: How to show Rembrandt in his best light, previews of TEFAF New York Fall and Frieze Masters, and reviews of the Danish Golden Age in Copenhagen and Marlene Dumas’s take on Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
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
Poetic justice for the Parthenon Marbles
In her book, ‘Frieze Frame’, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the marbles since the early 19th century. She tells Apollo why they now deserve a new lease of cultural life
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
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.
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