Past Issue
July/August 2018
• All change at the Horniman Museum
• An interview with Mary Corse
• Westminster Abbey’s new galleries
• Theatrical set design through the ages
Plus: Parcours des Mondes preview, Sargent in the Holy Land, Göbekli Tepe up close, and George Devey’s country houses
Inside this issue
Past issues
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?
December 2024
Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
More from Apollo
Gilty pleasures – Versailles in the 21st century
Gilty pleasures – Versailles in the 21st centuryWith new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
The rise of performance art in Renaissance Italy
An accomplished musician as well as a painter, Lorenzo Costa was perfectly placed to capture the changing fashions and shifting social etiquette of his day
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.
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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