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• The crowded scenes of William Hogarth
• Are curators getting enough credit?
• An interview with Kiki Smith
• Derek Jarman’s visions of England
Plus: How to show Rembrandt in his best light, previews of TEFAF New York Fall and Frieze Masters, and reviews of the Danish Golden Age in Copenhagen and Marlene Dumas’s take on Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
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May 2021
Michael Rakowitz | Narendra Modi | Daniel Spoerri
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Alice Neel | Charles Baudelaire | Antony Gormley
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Noël Coward | Gillian Wearing | Francis Bacon
February 2021
Ancient Iran | Lisa Yuskavage | Aby Warburg
More from Apollo
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
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
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
In defence of the Stonehenge road tunnel
Plans to sink a dual carriageway beneath Stonehenge have been heavily criticised – but the tunnel will improve our experience of the site, writes Timothy Darvill