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

Miart • Things are getting funky in Milan, with the 30th edition of the modern and contemporary fair inspired by the creativity of jazz music

Northern highlights • From contemporary fashion and design to Futurist painting, there’s plenty to see in Milan this month

Art Dubai • With conflict rocking the Middle East, the fair hopes that stability will return soon, writes MICHAEL DELGADO

The ugly truth • HETTIE JUDAH on the dangers of playing the ‘beautiful’ game

Generation game • Museums everywhere are struggling with the question of how to get younger, more diverse audiences through their doors. With its latest venue in east London, the V&A hopes it has an answer. But can such efforts survive in a changing political landscape?

Absolutely prefab • CATHERINE INCE on how Charles and Ray Eames radically reimagined the home

Simply red • The Shiraz origin story spills over into Persian courtly life and visual culture, writes CHRISTINA MAKRIS

Rome’s first photography museum wants to be a European heavyweight • CATHERINE BENNETT visits a former slaughterhouse that is the city’s newest museum

SAXON STYLE • Rebuilding Dresden’s Royal Palace, destroyed during the Second World War, has taken decades. Now it’s nearing completion, revealing the artistic vision of its most famous inhabitant, Augustus the Strong

VIEW FINDERS • The photography studio founded by the Alinari brothers in Florence in the 1850s played a large part in shaping how the rest of the world came to see Italy. Today, the extraordinary archives the firm left behind are a testament to this technological and artistic revolution

URBAN LEGEND • Bernardo Bellotto made his name with city views painted in Venice and Dresden – but it was in Vienna that he produced some of his most innovative works, explains Mateusz Mayer of the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Super Schiap • Elsa Schiaparelli’s Surrealist impulses may have been most famously expressed in her collaborations with Salvador Dalí, but the fashion designer’s playful creations all have an element of ‘super-reality’ about them

New York, London, Paris... Milan? • JANE MORRIS asks if the Italian fashion capital is becoming a contemporary art centre too

Early American photography • There is no shortage of material – but quality is another thing, writes EMMA CRICHTON-MILLER

REVIEWS • EXHIBITIONS TRACEY EMIN’S SECOND COMING, STONE COLD EDMONIA LEWIS, THE MAN WHO REBUILT NOTRE-DAME BOOKS A QUEER HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL TRUST, AND JOE BRAINARD’S COMIC RELIEF

Her Eminence • The twists and turns of Tracey Emin’s career are thrilling, writes DIGBY WARDE-ALDAM

Stone uncovered • This enigmatic American sculptor is finally getting due attention, writes EVE M. KAHN

Nation building • Viollet-le-Duc is famous for adding a spire to Notre-Dame, but he hit other heights, too, writes IRIS MOON

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

Confirmed bachelor pads • OLIVER COX on the role queer culture played in preserving country houses for the nation

Cartoon network • TODD McEWEN salutes the startling work of a connected countercultural pioneer

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