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APOLLO MAGAZINE – JUNE 2025 – INTERNATIONAL ART

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APOLLO MAGAZINE (June 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Centenary Issue’…

In this issue

Apollo celebrates its centenary

Up and away: the art of the Ascension

Ruth Asawa: wired for art

Has the QR code has its day?

Plus: the artists who have bared all, the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Met, Gertrude Stein’s museum of modern art, Elizabeth I’s favourite kitchen utensil, how Jenny Saville turns paint into flesh, and a preview of Treasure House Fair; in reviews: Hiroshige in London, Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds in Chicago, and art versus AI

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Apollo Magazine – April 2025 – International Art

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April 2025 | Apollo Magazine

APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘The sonic visions of Oliver Beer’; The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue and How the Acropolis became modern….

The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue

An interview with Oliver Beer

How the Acropolis became modern

In praise of ‘degenerate’ art

Also: The duchess who scandalised Spain, why the market for women’s art is slowing, Dutch paintings at Apsley House, how Bugatti built a style icon, the sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha, and a preview of Art Dubai; reviews of Gertrude Abercrombie in Pittsburgh, Medardo Rosso in Vienna, and a history of image-eating. Plus: Will Wiles on a French avant-garde portrait with a family connection

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Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2025 Preview

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‘A Concert’ by Lorenzo Costa on the cover of the March 2025 issue of Apollo

APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Performance art in Renaissance Italy’; Versailles in the 21st century and How to give back looted objects…

It’s time for the UK to act on restitution

An interview with Alex Da Corte

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Music-making in Renaissance Italy

Including a new golden age at Versailles, Cycladic art over the centuries, the dangers of living in Los Angeles, Tracey Emin’s passion for painting, what new EU import laws will do to the art market, and a preview of TEFAF Maastricht; plus reviews of modernism in Brazil, the drawings of Henri Michaux, and the essays of Svetlana Alpers. And: Tessa Hadley on Bellini’s shocking depiction of the making of a martyr

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ART: Apollo Magazine – February 2025 Preview

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APOLLO MAGAZINE (February 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Poking fun at 18th-Century Paris’…

The menacing visions of Jusepe de Ribera

Though clearly influenced by Caravaggio, the Spanish painter rendered saints and sinners in a ferocious style all of his own

The uneasy business of being an American artist: an interview with Rachel Cohen

The author of ‘A Chance Meeting’ talks to Apollo about the reissue of her dazzlingly original account of more than a century of artistic endeavour in the United States

The repeat performances of William Morris

The designer’s wallpaper patterns are so familiar that they’re in danger of being taken for granted – but there’s still plenty to discover if we look more closely

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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

October 2024 | Apollo Magazine

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

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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.