Apollo

Roisin Inglesby

London

Tanya Harrod

Writer, London

Isabella Smith

Senior editor, Apollo

Hyeyoung Cho

Secretary general of the Korea Association of Art & Design and independent curator, Seoul

Abraham Thomas

Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Daniel Fountain

Exeter

Zoe Black

Auckland

Ilaria Puri Purini

Rome

Helen Ritchie

Cambridge

Ferren Gipson

London

Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

New York

Marilyn Zapf

Asheville

Masami Yamada

London

The fragile business of French art

In 18th-century France, an emerging consumer society created a new kind of buyer and encouraged artists to look to the short-term

Is investing in the past the way of the future?

A new report by Historic England claims that investing in heritage will boost the economies of struggling English towns – but how reliable are the means of measurement?

Edmund Le Brun and Flore de Taisne

Co-founders, Ishkar, London

In praise of the cat ladies of contemporary art

Hettie Judah considers how artists such as Tracey Emin and Kiki Smith have represented the sacred bond between women and their cats

The artists who have come to the defence of the dodo

An art collection assembled by a ‘Dodo-ologist’ is heading to auction, but not everyone has had the same level of enthusiasm for the bird

Former head of Frieze fairs Victoria Siddall appointed director of National Portrait Gallery

Plus: British museum shortlists five architects for major refurbishment, and the art historian David Anfam has died at the age of 69

The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917

Public commissions during the period known as the American Renaissance focused heavily on the human figure

Mark Bradford: Keep Walking

The American artist’s monumental works, often made from found materials, get a suitably spacious setting at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin

Masterpieces from the Borghese Gallery

Italian Old Masters take up temporary residence at the Jacquemart-André in Paris this month

Surrealism

A century after André Breton wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, the avant-garde movement is being celebrated in its home city

The shape-shifting art of Adam Bruce Thomson

The Scottish painter’s openness to developments in modern art led him to adopt a remarkable number of styles in the course of a long career