Past Issue
December 2015
This December, Apollo celebrates outstanding achievements in the art and museum worlds with the Apollo Awards 2015, and features articles on Alexander Calder’s radical sculpture, art and prostitution, and Russian stage designs. Plus: Brian Eno on the cultural boycott in Israel and Gavin Stamp on Bulgaria’s monuments. Preview the issue below.
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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
More from Apollo
The rise of performance art in Renaissance Italy
The rise of performance art in Renaissance ItalyAn accomplished musician as well as a painter, Lorenzo Costa was perfectly placed to capture the changing fashions and shifting social etiquette of his day
Gilty pleasures – Versailles in the 21st century
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
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.
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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