Past Issue
January 2024
In this issue
* The last days of Vincent Van Gogh
* An interview with Sammy Baloji
* The tumultuous life of Théodore Géricault
* What does 2024 hold for the art market?
Plus: an Ethiopian icon in focus, Belgian Surrealism beyond Magritte, a very colourful Victorian chapel, Dorothy Iannone’s lust for life; and reviews of Harriet Backer’s paintings of Norway, the films of Agnès Varda and the Bauhaus exiles in America
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
The rise of performance art in Renaissance ItalyAn 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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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