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March 2021
• The world of Noël Coward
• Has the UK government abandoned the arts?
• An interview with Gillian Wearing
• Francis Bacon’s obsession with beasts
Plus: the tent-tomb of Richard Burton, the pros and cons of colourising old photographs, Louis Kahn’s concrete castles, the Royal Collection’s most attentive royal curator, and the Uffizi’s new cooking show
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Past issues
February 2021
Ancient Iran | Lisa Yuskavage | Aby Warburg
January 2021
Patricia Highsmith | Maggi Hambling | Anders Zorn
December 2020
The Apollo Awards 2020
November 2020
Denzil Forrester | Musée Cernuschi | Augustus Saint-Gaudens
More from Apollo
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
What happens when you hang a painting upside down?
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes
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
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