Features
Apollo at 85
To mark Apollo’s 85th anniversary, former editors share their recollections of art-world events covered in the magazine during their tenure – and some of the challenges they faced
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Gatsby’s Garden
The elegant lawn of F. Scott Fizgerald’s fictional hero serves as a symbol for the forgotten history of Art Deco gardens, long overshadowed by the spectre of Modernism
Judith not Salome
The iconography of Titian’s early masterpiece in Rome is open to interpretation, but the inclusion of a winged cupid suggests a subtle political message for the painting’s recipient, Alfonso I d’Este
Bronzino: Master Draughtsman
The recent exhibition of drawings by Agnolo Bronzino at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has yielded important conclusions about the artist’s techniques and the process by which attributions are made
A Private Passion
Professor Kurt Salfeld and his wife, Jutta, have loaned their collection of Meissen porcelain birds – among the rarest of all Meissen creations – to the Porzellansammlung of Dresden’s Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, marking the tercentennial of the Meissen manufactury’s foundation
Buildings that Speak
The structures we inhabit can play a vital part in shaping not just our own identities but the personality of the country as a whole. Living Architecture is a new organisation that sets out to improve our experiences of contemporary houses
Beyond the Surface
Although they appear as abstract celebrations of colour, the paintings of British artist Howard Hodgkin have stories to tell – but don’t expect any easy explanations. On the eve of his exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, the artist is on fine form
