Past Issue
March 2020
• An interview with Christo
• Artemisia Gentileschi in London
• The mistresses of Charles II
• Have art prizes had their day?
Plus: neorealism in the Netherlands, high culture in Houston, majolica mania, a brief history of neon, previews of TEFAF and Salon du Dessin, and reviews of Van Eyck at the MSK in Ghent and the art of Kyoto at the Met.
Inside this issue
Past issues
April 2021
Alice Neel | Charles Baudelaire | Antony Gormley
March 2021
Noël Coward | Gillian Wearing | Francis Bacon
February 2021
Ancient Iran | Lisa Yuskavage | Aby Warburg
January 2021
Patricia Highsmith | Maggi Hambling | Anders Zorn
More from Apollo
Behind the mask? An interview with Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing is in an unusually candid mode in her lockdown paintings, writes Martin Herbert – if you take them at face value, that is
Matchstick men at the pictures – Mrs Lowry and Son, reviewed
Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave co-star as the artist and his mother in this claustrophobic portrait of domestic dysfunction
The unruly life of museum postcards
We’re all building miniature museums at home, and postcards of paintings have taken on a life of their own
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