Past Issue
September 2024
• Bringing Pompeii back to life
• The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
• The cat ladies of contemporary art
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
Inside this issue
Past issues
November 2024
Japanese art at the MFA Boston | Christian Marclay | collecting haute couture
October 2024
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
July/August 2024
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
June 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
More from Apollo
The Mughal emperors who forged a new artistic tradition
At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings
How Oxford became a pale shade of its former self
The replacement of Boswell’s department store with a luxury hotel is part of a beautification process that has gathered pace in recent years
The cosmic art of Liliane Lijn
The artist has pursued her interest in light, motion and myth across drawing, sculpture and performance for six decades, but it’s her openness to new ideas that really defines her work
The dreams of the Surrealists have become the stuff of our reality
The ideas and images of the artists who unleashed their unconscious on the world a century ago are now part of the fabric of everyday life