Past Issue
October 2023
In this issue
• Getting ruff and ready with Frans Hals
• Sophie Calle takes on Picasso
• Can museums cope without dodgy donors?
• What Mark Rothko learned in Europe
Plus: Daniel Katz’s outstanding collection of Islamic pottery, the women Rubens kept on painting, a preview of Paris+ par Art Basel, 40 under 40 USA revealed, and reviews of Joshua Reynolds in Plymouth, the Surreal fantasies of Remedios Varos in Chicago and Palestinian embroidery in Cambridge.
Past issues
May 2025
All change at the National Gallery | An interview with Caroline Walker | On tour with the Von Trapps
April 2025
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue | An interview with Oliver Beer | How the Acropolis became modern
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
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A novel look at Mantegna in Mantua
Inger Christensen’s reissued take on the artist’s time at the Gonzaga court is as experimental as his work would have seemed to contemporaries
Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation