Past Issue
January 2021
• The art of Patricia Highsmith
• Can historic houses tell more complicated stories?
• An interview with Maggi Hambling
• Is France keeping its promises on restitution?
Plus: Reviews of the Torlonia marbles in Rome, Anders Zorn’s paintings in The Hague, the creatures of Ray Harryhausen and 18th-century engravings of citrus fruit
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Past issues
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?
December 2024
Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
November 2024
Japanese art at the MFA Boston | Christian Marclay | collecting haute couture
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The painter who poked fun at 18th-century Paris
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The uneasy business of being an American artist
Rachel Cohen talks to Apollo about the reissue of ‘A Chance Meeting’, her inventive account of more than a century of artistic endeavour in the United States
The Mughal emperors who forged a new artistic tradition
At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings
What would Jane Austen say?
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating