Apollo

For 100 years it has covered everything from antiquities to contemporary work, publishing exclusive interviews with the world’s most important artists and collectors, reviews and previews of exhibitions, and thought-provoking features on all aspects of art. Each issue also contains Apollo’s regular columns, including food, wine, architecture and much more. Apollo is always elegantly illustrated, authoritative and entertaining.

Apollo

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AGENDA • Apollo’s exhibitions of the month

Art Basel Miami Beach • With almost 300 galleries in attendance, this sun-drenched fair is the largest in the western hemisphere, writes MICHAEL DELGADO

Slices of Carpaccio • BEN STREET takes a close look at the Venetian artist, 500 years after his death

You think you’re paranoid? • The current moment in American art screams unease, writes HETTIE JUDAH

Capital idea • As the prospect of restored state support becomes ever more distant, Britain’s museums are turning to US-style fundraising techniques. Can this benefit more than just a handful of large, London-based institutions?

‘A building doesn’t have to be gracious, or even functional, to be special’ • WILL WILES has a soft spot for James Stirling’s History Faculty Building in Cambridge

Peace and plenty • This Christmas, spare a thought for the painters who found serenity in abundance, writes MOLLY PEPPER STEEMSON

Critical drinking • Drink and thought have always had a close relationship. CHRISTINA MAKRIS puts us in the picture

Gabriele Finaldi and John Booth

Hew Locke

Frick Collection, New York • Reopened April 2025

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (13 October 2024–26 January) and National Gallery, London (8 March–22 June)

Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art • Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Auckland University Press/University of Chicago Press)

Getty Provenance Index

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen, early 1420s, Fra Angelico • Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

NEW ORDER • The Musée des Augustins in Toulouse – a world-class fine-art museum housed in a medieval former convent – is one of the oldest museums in France. An ambitious revamp has brought it into the modern age

In the round • A pioneering artist of the Italian Renaissance, Filippino Lippi excelled at the circular ‘tondo’ form of painting. Alexander Noelle of the Cleveland Museum of Art explains the genius behind one of Filippino’s most exquisite works

RAISING THE DEAD • M.R. James is known as the ‘father of folk horror’. But his ghost stories were deeply informed by his work at the Fitzwilliam Museum – and the spookiness of antique objects

Fair game • A spate of new fairs suggests ‘fairtigue’ is over, but perhaps we should slow down, says JANE MORRIS

Glass apart • Roman glass has a clear appeal for collectors, writes EMMA CRICHTON-MILLER

REVIEWS • EXHIBITIONS JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE’S VIRGIN TERRITORY, WAYNE THIEBAUD THE CONFECTIONER, RECASTING CONFEDERATE STATUES IN CALIFORNIA BOOKS COUNTER-REFORMATION PERSPECTIVES, ARTISTS SEEING RED, AND BLONDE MOMENTS IN BRITISH CULTURE

Sentimental education • This tour of Greuze’s 18th-century morality tales reveals the ideas that shaped the age, writes MICHAEL PRODGER

Eye candy • Whether emblematic of American dream or nightmare, Thiebaud’s confections are moreish, writes CHARLES DARWENT

Yesterday’s men • Confederate monuments get a makeover from contemporary artists, writes LYRA KILSTON

OFF THE SHELF • Apollo’s selection of new books on art, architecture and the history of collecting

Mass culture • WILLIAM...