Past Issue
September 2024
In this issue
• Bringing Pompeii back to life
• The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
• The cat ladies of contemporary art
Plus:
Apollo celebrates 40 artists, patrons, thinkers and business-people blurring the line between art and craft; the Italian museum memorialising an unsolved plane crash; reviews of Paula Modersohn-Becker in New York, Elisabeth Frink’s menagerie, and Eileen Agar’s memoir of an unconventional life – and Jonathan Lethem remembers meeting a feather-brained friend in Maine
Italian art is the star of the show in Florence this month
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 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.
Gilty pleasures – Versailles in the 21st century
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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