Apollo Magazine

The International Art Magazine. Published monthly since 1925, we cover everything from antiquities to contemporary work

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‘One of the most original fashion photography projects of the past decade comes not from London or Paris but from the post-industrial valleys of South Wales.’

Owen Pritchard is charmed and impressed by ‘Ffasiwn’, now at National Museum Cardiff
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Jasper Johns was a flag-bearer for a particular brand of inscrutable, elegant painting, writes Charles Darwent as an exhibition of the artist’s work opens at the Guggenheim Bilbao
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The terrifying power of Mount Etna is captured in a 17th-century fresco in Catania’s cathedral: ‘a fascinating impression of Catania before it was razed to the ground’, writes Helena Attlee
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‘In the art world you’re not only buying an object, you’re buying a relationship.’

The Old Master gallerist Andreas Pampoulides talks to Edward Behrens about the importance of fairs, what happened after Brexit and the collapse of the mid market.
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The collection of the Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer is up for auction at Roseberys London today. Lucy Waterson looks at a minimalist drawing by Mathias Goeritz that takes an ingenious approach to structure and form
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The June issue of Apollo is out now, featuring the Albertina Museum in Vienna at 250 | an interview with Anish Kapoor | Frederic Church’s miracle home on the Hudson | the fine art of cricket at Lord’s | LACMA’s exhilarating new galleries | and much more
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‘It’s a place made from the leftover fabric of the last century.’

Will Wiles gets to the heart of the everyday horrors of ‘Backrooms’, the debut film by Kane Parsons
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In the 1920s Edvard Munch turned the canteen of an Oslo chocolate factory into a de facto gallery of modern art. Ana María Bresciani of the Munchmuseet explains how he did it
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A rococo snuffbox made by Louis XV’s goldsmith and a floral still life by Bernardo Strozzi are among the most significant works to enter public collections recently
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‘The best work is chronically online.’

This year’s Whitney Biennial is undoubtedly messy and unintentionally revealing, writes Zachary Ginsberg
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The blockbuster May auctions in New York ‘have done much to quell industry anxiety after several difficult years. But the season’s success is really down to what was for sale,’ writes Anna Brady
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‘What Dunn achieved in these […] cartoons was certainly a form of criticism, a quicksilver form that is notoriously difficult to achieve in prose.’

Will Wiles on Alan Dunn, a cartoonist with a fine line in writing about architecture
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The Georgian era was famed for the extravagance of its banquets. Ivan Day goes in search of some of the wildest recipes of the 18th century
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The photographer Fiona Pardington talks to Apollo about how she prepared to represent New Zealand at this year’s Venice Biennale – despite not having a studio
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‘Whistler was obsessed with depicting the play of light across reflective surfaces, whether a firework reflected on water or a face reflected in a mirror.’

Tara Contractor on how the painter used metallic pigments to make his work really shine
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The market for furniture by mid-century French designers is as sturdy as a Jean Prouvé table or a hippo-cum-drinks cabinet by François-Xavier Lalanne, writes Emma Crichton-Miller
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In Steven Soderbergh’s film ‘The Christophers’, Ian McKellen’s once-celebrated artist hasn’t put brush to canvas in decades. Production designer Antonia Lowe talks to Arjun Sajip about how creating his cluttered, crusted-over studio was a gift of a project
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At the National Gallery Singapore, the winner of this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize – and the other shortlisted works – offer an invigorating vision of the possibilities of making, writes Edward Behrens
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‘It is hard to name a more compelling continuation of the tradition of kinetic art into the contemporary era anywhere in the world.’

Samuel Reilly on the threats faced by the Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, an offbeat gem of Glasgow’s art scene
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Martin Wong excelled at stagy scenes of San Francisco’s Chinatown as well as moody New York nocturnes. Claire Barliant reviews an exhibition that sees the painter working in both modes
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