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In this issue
Apollo celebrates its centenary
Up and away: the art of the Ascension
Ruth Asawa: wired for art
Has the QR code had its day?
Plus: the artists who have bared all, the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Met, Gertrude Stein’s museum of modern art, Elizabeth I’s favourite kitchen utensil, how Jenny Saville turns paint into flesh, and a preview of Treasure House Fair; in reviews: Hiroshige in London, Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds in Chicago, and art versus AI
Treasure House Fair harnesses the spirit of summer
Past issues
May 2025
All change at the National Gallery | An interview with Caroline Walker | On tour with the Von Trapps
April 2025
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue | An interview with Oliver Beer | How the Acropolis became modern
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
More from Apollo
The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie
Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
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.
The British Royal Family’s love of bling
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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