Past Issue
October 2020
• The modern artists who loved cycle racing
• Relabelling objects at the British Museum
• Cultural heritage under threat in Tunisia
• The new buildings in Berlin that look back at the past
Plus: The pastels of Rosalba Carriera, the prints of Bridget Riley, Jacob Lawrence’s reckoning with the history of the United States, and previews of TEFAF New York online and Asian Art in London
Inside this issue
Past issues
May 2025
All change at the National Gallery | An interview with Caroline Walker | On tour with the Von Trapps
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
More from Apollo
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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
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
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.
Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
The artist has updated her ‘Hexen’ deck charting the rise of the military-industrial complex for an age of climate crisis and disinformation