Past Issue
April 2023
In this issue
The alluring art of Antonio Canova
Universal pictures – Hilma af Klint’s cosmic vision
Is Vermeer worth queuing for?
Lausanne’s lively new arts district
Plus: making sense of the Tower of Babel, the rise and rise of Surrealist art at auction, James Joyce’s favourite Swiss tipple, and everything there is to know about Titian
Past issues
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?
December 2024
Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
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The painter who poked fun at 18th-century Paris
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
What would Jane Austen say?
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating