Past Issue
April 2016
This April, Apollo features articles on Turner and Nelson, the contemporary sublime, and the Kunsthaus Zürich. Martin Gayford talks to Jannis Kounellis about how living in Rome has inspired his work, and Jan and Christine Fischer tell Susan Moore about the madness of collecting. Plus: Ethnographic Museums and Martin Harrison on Francis Bacon’s catalogue raisonné. Preview the issue below.
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Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
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Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
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Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
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Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
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When Francis Bacon made furniture
The artist did his best to destroy any traces of his work as a designer, but the little that survives offers new perspectives on his art
The dealer who launched Picasso
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition
The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals
Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures