Past Issue
September 2021
• An interview with Sheila Hicks
• The Phillips Collection at 100
• At the restored Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
• Andrew Lloyd Webber on the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Plus: the art world’s sense-of-humour failure, a preview of TEFAF Online, the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico, Gustave Moreau at Waddesdon, and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
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Past issues
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
November 2024
Japanese art at the MFA Boston | Christian Marclay | collecting haute couture
More from Apollo
The painter who poked fun at 18th-century Paris
The painter who poked fun at 18th-century ParisWorking 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 uneasy business of being an American artist
Rachel Cohen talks to Apollo about the reissue of ‘A Chance Meeting’, her inventive account of more than a century of artistic endeavour in the United States
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