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

In praise of uncertainty

AGENDA • Apollo’s exhibitions of the month

Art Basel Paris • Art Basel’s smallest fair is flying the flag for the French art market, writes MICHAEL DELGADO

Far from the madding crowd • There is plenty of great art to see this month – and some of it can even be found outside the frenzy of London, writes HETTIE JUDAH

Grave review • SOPHIE BARLING turns tomb raider in Luxor to marvel at the craftsmanship of ancient Egypt

That’s the spirit! • STEPHEN PATIENCE on ghostly apparitions in Victorian photography

Change of scene • The opening of the Fondation Cartier in 1984 changed the French art world and heralded a new era of powerful private institutions. Will its new space, a stone’s throw from the Louvre, upset the balance of Paris’s museum landscape even further?

Shock of the mews • GILLIAN DARLEY outlines the occasionally scandalous history of the London mews house

Starch reality • The potato has long been a source of inspiration for artists depicting the peasant classes, writes JENNY LINFORD

Little terroir • The wine and art on offer at Château La Mission Haut-Brion help this diminutive vineyard punch above its weight, writes CHRISTINA MAKRIS

A perfect fit • MILENA LAZAZZERA on an intriguing fusion of contemporary jewellery and rococo porcelain

OUT OF THE BOX • A new home for the vast collection of Princeton University’s art museum has divided critics. Will it win them over when it opens at the end of this month?

BROUGHT TO HEAL • Recently restored, the monumental religious paintings by Hogarth that adorn the north wing of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London show a more caring side of the satirical genius

OF THE AGE • The twists and turns in the career of the Nigerian sculptor and painter Ben Enwonwu mirror those of his native country as it left British colonialism behind

Into the deep • As a retrospective of Hew Locke’s excavations of imperial history opens at the Yale Center for British Art, he talks to Apollo about producing some of the defining images of the 2020s

No guarantees • Are risk-free auctions a safe bet? JANE MORRIS investigates

China’s new frontiers • The market for work by late 20th-century and contemporary Chinese artists keeps throwing up surprises, writes EMMA CRICHTON-MILLER

REVIEWS • EXHIBITIONS AMSTERDAM’S SCULPTOR-IN-CHIEF, THE DARK ART OF PIERRE SOULAGES, THE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF STAN DOUGLAS BOOKS A MADCAP HISTORY OF COLLECTING, AND A PIONEERING PAINTER OF THE PORTUGESE BAROQUE

Chiselled features • The greatest Flemish sculptor of the baroque finally receives his due, and in the perfect setting, writes ANTONIA BOSTRÖM

Master of the dark arts • In his virtuosic variations on the colour black, Pierre Soulages achieved a surprising degree of variety, writes ROD MENGHAM

Histories of cinema • This survey shows how the moving image can be made to bridge the gap between past and present, writes ROBERT RUBSAM

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

Great accumulators • A sweeping survey of obsessive collecting deals in both reality and fiction, writes SUSAN MOORE

Baroque star • DAVID GELBER welcomes a revealing biography of a formidable...