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The problem with Picasso
Is the art world wrong about craft?
The Belvedere marks its 300th birthday
What to see at TEFAF Maastricht
Plus: keeping up with the Sassoons, Barbara Hepworth’s new groove, the artists rewriting recent history, and reviews of modernism in Ukraine, Hispanic art in London and an enduring Tudor enigma
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October 2024
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
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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
When Francis Bacon made furniture
The artist did his best to destroy any traces of his work as a designer, but the little that survives offers new perspectives on his art
The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals
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
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