Current Issue
May 2025
In this issue
The National Gallery’s great reveal
An interview with Caroline Walker
When art deco went to the movies
On tour with the Von Trapps
Also: Virginia Woolf’s Sussex retreat, single-owner sales, Suzanne Valadon’s move from model to artist, Duccio’s drink of choice, and previews of Frieze New York and TEFAF New York; in reviews: Anselm Kiefer in Oxford and Amsterdam, chinoiserie at the Met, and high fashion at the Louvre. Plus: Robert Macfarlane is fascinated by a body of water
Do we take craft for granted?
Past issues
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
January 2025
The art of divination | an interview with Jake Grewal | will the market recover in 2025?
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.
What Wellington bought after Waterloo
An exhibition of the Dutch paintings the 1st Duke of Wellington purchased in Paris reveals another aspect of an extraordinary life
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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