Features
Inquiry: art law and attribution
Do art historians and other art authenticators need greater legal protection?
Editor’s Letter: Turner mania
As the Art Fund appeals to save Wedgwood, will anything be done to secure one of Turner’s major works for a national collection when it goes up for sale at Sotheby’s?
Diary: September Apollo
In Apollo’s September Diary, Christopher Rowell celebrates 50 years of the Furniture History Society
Brussels Art Square: September Apollo
Brussels Art Square is bolstered by a new initiative to encourage international visitors
From the Archives: September Apollo
The Warburg Institute in London was celebrated in the October 1970 issue of Apollo. But as custodianship of the organisation comes under scrutiny, its future hangs in the balance
Inquiry: Hard times for the UK’s regional museums?
From the outside, the UK’s regional museums may look to be in rude health. But how have recent funding cuts affected what’s happening behind the scenes?
Editor’s Letter: A historic business
The contemporary art trade may seem like a funny old business but historically it has played an integral role in the development of Western art
‘It’s a building that only reveals itself by experience’. Inside the Clark Art Institute
After its long-awaited redevelopment, the Clark has unveiled an impressive new building designed by Tadao Ando alongside refurbished galleries by Annabelle Selldorf
John Ruskin’s second career
Extract for our July/August Diary by Ruskin expert Robert Hewison
Are encyclopaedic museums concentrating too much on contemporary art?
Apollo’s July/August Forum
Diary: June Apollo
Extract from our June Diary by David Saunders, Keeper of Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum
Cover Story: July/August Apollo
How many people, in the art world and beyond, are able to distinguish Gilbert Proesch from George Passmore?
Editor’s Letter: Youth and experience
It’s vital that young scholars and writers have institutional support. Apollo is pleased to announce a new writing prize with Lund Humphries
Masterpiece London: June Apollo
Apollo talks to Nazy Vassegh and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, CEO and chairman of Masterpiece London, ahead of the 5th edition of the fair
Cover Story: June Apollo
Alexander Pope seems to live on in Roubiliac’s magnificent portrait bust, as if the man and his mind somehow inhabited the marble
Diary: May Apollo
Extract from our May Diary featuring Karen Smith on contemporary Chinese art
Cover Story: May Apollo
A young Jackson Pollock, inspired by Michelangelo, made the copper tondo on Apollo’s May issue cover
Diary: April Apollo
Extract from our April Diary featuring the director of Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, Jonathan Watkins, on the museum’s upcoming 50th anniversary
Building the catalogue: the National Gallery and digital publishing
‘Building the Picture’ is accompanied by the National Gallery’s first fully digital catalogue
Artists as Print Collectors: April Apollo
Ben Luke on the phenomenon of artist as print collector – what makes the medium so seductive?
Forum: Does today’s art market benefit young artists?
Apollo’s April Forum asks whether art market hype affects emerging artists
The Origins of the Easter Bunny
How did our furry friends become the ubiquitous symbols of Easter?
Editor’s Letter: Connoisseurship now
Has the time come for a revival of connoisseurship?