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October 2024
In this issue
An interview with Liliane Lijn
The dealer who launched Picasso
The marvels of Mughal painting
Impressionism and its discontents
Plus:
The many faces of Mary Magdalene, memory and modernity at the new-look Warburg Institute, how Paris will cope without the Pompidou, the richness of Arte Povera, the joy of arty plates, and what a dearth of young collectors might mean for the market; plus reviews of Mark Bradford in Berlin, what Scotland thought of the Cold War, and how printmaking made an impression
Crafting value in Venice
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
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
The painter who poked fun at 18th-century Paris
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
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