Past Issue
July/August 2023
In this issue
At the new National Portrait Gallery
The abstract art of Ellsworth Kelly
A Futurist family home in Rome
The ageing of Helsinki’s modern architecture
Plus: Gertrude Jekyll’s garden at Munstead Wood, X. Marcel Boulestin’s catering to the masses, reviews of Cecily Brown in New York and Simone Leigh in Boston and a preview of Parcours des Mondes
Past issues
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
November 2024
Japanese art at the MFA Boston | Christian Marclay | collecting haute couture
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