Past Issue
September 2023
In this issue
Wrestling with Michelangelo at the Albertina
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs gets modern
An interview with Sarah Lucas
The Norman conquest of the European imagination
Plus: why collectors are falling for the British Neo-Romantics, France’s national museum of immigration, and do children need museums of their own? Plus reviews of Ingres in Chantilly, Isa Genzken in Berlin and a study of stained glass in Gilded Age New York
Past issues
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
January 2025
The art of divination | an interview with Jake Grewal | will the market recover in 2025?
More from Apollo
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.
What Wellington bought after Waterloo
What Wellington bought after WaterlooAn exhibition of the Dutch paintings the 1st Duke of Wellington purchased in Paris reveals another aspect of an extraordinary life
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
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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