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January 2021
• The art of Patricia Highsmith
• Can historic houses tell more complicated stories?
• An interview with Maggi Hambling
• Is France keeping its promises on restitution?
Plus: Reviews of the Torlonia marbles in Rome, Anders Zorn’s paintings in The Hague, the creatures of Ray Harryhausen and 18th-century engravings of citrus fruit
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March 2021
Noël Coward | Gillian Wearing | Francis Bacon
February 2021
Ancient Iran | Lisa Yuskavage | Aby Warburg
December 2020
The Apollo Awards 2020
November 2020
Denzil Forrester | Musée Cernuschi | Augustus Saint-Gaudens
More from Apollo
American museums should not be selling their art to keep the lights on
Deaccessioning rules for US museums have been relaxed to raise money for collection care – and even the Met may take advantage. It’s a slippery slope, says Thomas P. Campbell
The Grande Odalisque – a graphic novel that flunks its art heists
A new graphic novel offers a fresh take on the museum heist genre – if you can bear its regressive sexual politics, that is
For the women of Venice, the fiddly art of bead-stringing is worth fighting for
Stringing glass beads was once the main work available to Venetian women – but it’s now a protected craft pursued by only a handful of skilled artists
In defence of the Stonehenge road tunnel
Plans to sink a dual carriageway beneath Stonehenge have been heavily criticised – but the tunnel will improve our experience of the site, writes Timothy Darvill