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International Art: Apollo Magazine – December 2024

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Apollo Magazine (October 28, 2024): The new issue features ‘Rachel Ruysch Says it with Flowers’

In this issue

• The floral paintings of Rachel Ruysch

• What do museums think about climate protests?

• Turin’s Egyptian Museum at 200

• The winners of the Apollo Awards 2024

Also: An interview with Jeff Wall, the wild imagination of Maurice Sendak, spies and socialists at the Isokon building, and the ever-closer ties between luxury brands and the art world; reviews of Jacopo Bassano in Helsinki, art along the Silk Roads, the colourful interiors of Pierre Bonnard, and the art of predicting the future. Plus: John Banville on the sensuality of a late Rubens

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – November 2024

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Apollo Magazine (October 28, 2024): The new issue features ‘A new look for Japanese art’; Are prints the next big thing; Chicago’s answer to William Morris…

In this issue

• New Japanese galleries at the MFA Boston

• Are prints the next big thing?

• What makes Christian Marclay tick?

• Chicago’s answer to William Morris

Also: collecting haute couture, marvellous pre-Ming ceramics, a preview of Asian Art in London; and reviews of Surrealism at the Pompidou, lost London interiors and a new life of Mies Van der Rohe. Plus Lucy Ellmann on a troubling trompe l’oeil painting of a cat behind bars

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – October 2024

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Apollo Magazine (September 30, 2024): The new October 2024 issue features An interview with Liliane Lijn; The dealer who launched Picasso and The marvels of Mughal painting

Raising a glass to Campari’s photographic archive

Scenes of rowdy bars and tipsy revellers in the 20th century show a world that is both alien and comfortingly familiar

The dangerous beauty of Waterhouse’s nymphs

Sarah Moss returns to a Pre-Raphaelite painting that made a lasting impression on her in when she was a teenager

The Andalusian winery that pairs sherry with Spanish paintings

The veteran sherry-makers at Bodegas Tradición in Cádiz may have perfected their craft, but the winery’s collection of paintings by great Spanish artists is no less impressive

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – September 2024

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Apollo Magazine (September 2, 2024): The new September 2024 issue features

• Bringing Pompeii back to life

• The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer

• The cat ladies of contemporary art

• Carlo Scarpa’s cult designs

Plus:

Apollo celebrates 40 artists, patrons, thinkers and business-people blurring the line between art and craft; the Italian museum memorialising an unsolved plane crash; reviews of Paula Modersohn-Becker in New York, Elisabeth Frink’s menagerie, and Eileen Agar’s memoir of an unconventional life – and Jonathan Lethem remembers meeting a feather-brained friend in Maine

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – July/Aug 2024

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Apollo Magazine (June 2, 2024): The new July/August 2024 issue features

• On the road with Ed Ruscha

• An interview with Jeremy Frey

• How to build a 21st-century museum

• France chases the Olympic dream

Plus: Hildegard Bechtler on the art of stage design, very fancy Victorian ice creams, the art market braces for stormy weather, a Madonna pregnant with meaning and a preview of Parcours des Mondes; reviews of Kafka in Oxford, the gardeners of the Bloomsbury Group, and the silversmith who struck gold for Tiffany & Co.

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – June 2024 Issue

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Apollo Magazine (June 2, 2024): The new June 2024 issue features ‘The awesome art of Caspar David Friedrich’; Should museums charge entry fees? and Picnicking with the Impressionists…

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – May 2024 Issue

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Apollo Magazine (April 29, 2024): The new May 2024 issue features ‘How national is the National Gallery?’; Alvaro Barrington’s winning hand; Fossil-fuelled: art and the oil industry…

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – April 2024

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Apollo Magazine (March 26, 2024): The new April 2024 issue features ‘Why Everyone Loves Keith Haring’; Who’s afraid of immersive art?; Counting the cost of the Venice Biennale…

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2024

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Apollo Magazine (February 25, 2024): The new March 2024 issue features ‘How Italy remade Willem de Kooning’; Does the art world need gatekeepers?; Angelica Kauffman’s sentimental side…

In the studio with… Manuel Mathieu

The Haitian-Canadian artist surrounds himself with unlikely objects to spark his imagination, books about drawing, and about 25 different types of tea

The clockwork marvels that tell a tale of two empires

These timepieces are fluttering, chiming embodiments of how Britain and China traded with each other in the 18th and 19th centuries

Reel life – how Zineb Sedira found herself through film

At the Whitechapel Gallery, the French-Algerian unspools personal and political histories through imitation sets and empty stages

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International Art: Apollo Magazine – February 2024

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Apollo Magazine (January 29, 2024): The new February 2024 issue features ‘Giants of Indian Miniature Painting’; The Crisis in Italian Paintings and more…

• Holidaying with the Habsburgs

• An interview with Julie Mehretu

• The crisis in Italian museums

• Howard Hodgkin’s Indian miniatures

Plus: Slim pickings for foodies on Valentine’s Day, Parma’s monumental museum complex, and – and reviews of Impressionists on paper, experimental art in the Eastern bloc, and Africa and Byzantium at the Met