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

A turning point?

AGENDA • Apollo’s exhibitions of the month

Asian Art in London • The 28th edition of the city-wide event promises fresh discoveries for collectors, scholars and enthusiasts alike, writes MICHAEL DELGADO

A light in the darkness • HETTIE JUDAH on women, freedom and cigarettes in art

Art becomes her • FATEMA AHMED goes in search of the artwork formerly known as Tilda Swinton

Divine intervention • AGNES CRAWFORD delights in Carracci’s frescoes at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome

‘The epitome of the modern civilised metropolis’ • EDWIN HEATHCOTE admires the timeless Vienna interiors of Adolf Loos

Past its bloom? • The cultural legacy of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and co is undeniable. But with the worlds of decoration and fashion forever ‘rediscovering’ Charleston, and with yet another large show opening at Tate Britain next year, have we finally passed peak Bloomsbury?

Dinner sanctum • At London’s venerable members’ clubs, food and art are existentially linked, writes SOPHIE BARLING

Breaking the bank • Drinkers must hammer their way through a protective casing to get at these £37,000 bottles of whisky, writes CHRISTINA MAKRIS

New look • Since its founding in the 1960s, Harlem’s celebrated Studio Museum has sustained generations of African-American artists. After a seven-year hiatus, with a new building, it’s set to do so once again

Rock star • A century ago, Alexander Tamanyan devised a startling layout for Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. Despite changes of regime and fashion, his scheme has endured and is still being realised today

WORKING THE LAND • John Constable’s understanding of the landscape, gained as a reluctant apprentice in his father’s corn business, set him apart from his contemporaries. Plough technology, barge-caulking, dunghills… it was all, ultimately, grist for his mill

Look sharp • Enamelled swords played an important symbolic role in the courts of 19th-century India. Nicole Ioffredi, curator of an exhibition opening at the Wallace Collection this month, explains the artistry behind one such masterpiece

Shelf love • Hidden away in one of Paris’s least-visited museums is a collection of East Asian art with a unique story to tell

The knowledge economy • Computers and conceptual art haven’t killed connoisseurship yet, writes GEORGINA ADAM

Early Japanese porcelain • Polychrome pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries are full of beauty and variety – and there are bargains to be had, writes EMMA CRICHTON-MILLER

REVIEWS • EXHIBITIONS REDISCOVERING MICHAELINA WAUTIER, KERRY JAMES MARSHALL STARS IN LONDON, EDWARD GEORGE TURNS ARCHIVIST BOOKS ALBERT BARNES’S VORACIOUS APPETITE FOR ART, AND A MENAGERIE OF STONE MONSTERS IN ITALY

Portrait of a lady on fire • It’s time we knew more about one of the most significant female painters in the history of art, writes LUKE UGLOW

Mix master • This strangest of American painters has more than earned his place in the canon, writes DIGBY WARDE-ALDAM

Moving images • Aby Warburg’s innovative approach to art history is given an affecting new purpose, writes LUCY DAVIES

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

Open house • CHRISTOPHER TURNER on the...