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November 2018
• Japan’s sophisticated prehistoric society
• A new look for the Nationalmuseum in Sweden
• An interview with Berlinde de Bruyckere
• Is enough being done to return Nazi-looted art?
Plus: the creative uses and misuses of VR, the cast courts at the V&A, the new Islamic galleries at the British Museum, and a preview of Asian Art in London
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September 2024
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
July/August 2024
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
June 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
May 2024
The National Gallery | Alvaro Barrington | Art and the oil industry
More from Apollo
Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
Gardening with the Bloomsbury Group
Outdoor activities offered Bloomsbury’s women welcome respite from their indoor pursuits
The feuding artists who shaped art after the Russian Revolution
The story of Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin’s competing artistic outlooks is told with verve in Sjeng Scheijen’s new book
A Madonna pregnant with meaning
Most paintings of the Virgin Mary show her holding the divine infant, but a 14th-century panel by Cenni di Francesco reminds us of more earthy realities