Current Issue
November 2024
In this issue
• New Japanese galleries at the MFA Boston
• Are prints the next big thing?
• What makes Christian Marclay tick?
• Chicago’s answer to William Morris
Also: collecting haute couture, marvellous pre-Ming ceramics, and a preview of Asian Art in London; and reviews of Surrealism at the Pompidou, lost London interiors and a new life of Mies van der Rohe. Plus: Lucy Ellmann on a troubling trompe l’oeil painting of a cat behind bars
Past issues
October 2024
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
September 2024
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
July/August 2024
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
June 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
More from Apollo
How will Paris cope without the Pompidou Centre for five years?
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
Were the Impressionists really so shocking?
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
What is the point of the people in architectural drawings?
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem