Past Issue
February 2014
This February, Apollo features articles on the history and resurgent popularity of the Wunderkammer, the digital technology unearthing a villa near Pompeii, and John Craxton’s cover designs for the books of his lifelong friend Patrick Leigh Fermor. Plus Zoe Pilger meets artist Richard Deacon ahead of his retrospective at Tate Britain and Susan Moore talks to Michael Steinhardt about his outstanding collection of antiquities.
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Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
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Japanese art at the MFA Boston | Christian Marclay | collecting haute couture
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Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
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Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
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After centuries of neglect, Plautilla Nelli’s reputation is soaring again
The resurgence of interest in female Renaissance painters has reached the Florentine nun and her workshop – and it’s time to pay more attention to artists in other Tuscan convents
The wild imagination of Maurice Sendak
The true gift of the author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ was to see the world like a child and blur the line between dreams and reality
In Turin, the world’s oldest Egyptian museum turns 200
Museums devoted solely to Egyptian antiquities are rare and Turin’s also tells the story of Italy’s long and complex relationship with the land of the pharaohs
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?
An Austrian museum is hosting a show by an unnamed artist – but perhaps this act of secrecy will help us see the work more clearly