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June 2023
In this issue
When Marilyn Monroe met Richard Avedon
Who really wants to buy video art?
An interview with Ragnar Kjartansson
The ballet that woke up post-war Britain
Plus: inside the new-look Buffalo AKG Art Museum, how to future-proof an art fair, and reviews of Hugo van der Goes, Gwen John, Berthe Morisot and a potted guide to the underground hippie press
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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