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- 1From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)The portrait is having a moment. A few weeks ago, faces from Old Master paintings began to take over my Twitter feed, fidgeting and blinking at first, and occasionally smiling. More recently they've expanded into song...
- 2From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)European and Asian collectors have at last begun to appreciate the gorgeous, shimmering colours of Tiffany glassware--table lamps, windows, blown glass. With a well-established and enthusiastic American market, prices...
- 3From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)Had any one ever seen such doings?' complains uncle Baudu, the proprietor of an old-fashioned and dingy shop, near the start of Emile Zola's novel Am Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Paradise; 1883). 'A draper's shop...
- 4From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)The Art Museum in Modern Times Charles Saumarez Smith Thames & Hudson, 30 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780500022436 Closed on Mondays: Behind the Scenes at the Museum Dinah Casson Lund Humphries, 29.95 [pounds...
- 5From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)The feasts of Niko Pirosmani In Georgia, feasting is a national pastime. 'If a neighbour's cousin's dog had a puppy,' the London-based restaurateur Tiko Tuskadze writes, 'we would laugh and celebrate with a feast until...
- 6From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)Dia Art Foundation boasts an unrivalled collection of minimalist and post-minimalist art--but what really sets it apart, director Jessica Morgan tells Apollo, is its commitment to artists who have courage in their...
- 7From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)While New York promises a retrenched but still exciting Frieze, London galleries are raring for post-lockdown reopening--with work by big names and emerging artists awaiting visitors Everyone has had a very different...
- 8From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2 April-22 August www.ngv.vic.gov.au This large-scale survey shines a (sunny) light on the breadth of Australia's...
- 9From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)Antony Gormley's belief in the public realm goes hand in hand with his conviction that art is a collective enterprise. He explains to Apollo why sculpture should be approachable and how it can even change the world...
- 10From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)The American painter Alice Neel was largely neglected during her lifetime, but in recent years her portraits have been recognised as urgent, sympathetic depictions of New York and its people. Might these paintings help...
- 11From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)INTERNATIONAL ART & ANTIQUE DEALERS Old Master Picture Dealers RAFAEL VALLS Fine Paintings and Drawings T +44 (0)20 7930 1144 11 Duke Street, St. James's, London SW1Y 6BN Fax 020 7976 1596 | info@rafaelvalls.co.uk |...
- 12From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)Apollo's selection of recently published books on art, architecture and the history of collecting Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy Fiona Greenland University of...
- 13From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)The curfew every night at 6pm and the semi-lockdown we have been living under since October have left Paris often looking like it did in the eerie images of Eugene Atget (1857-1927), one of its most important...
- 14From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)You could never accuse Charles Baudelaire of mincing words. On the bicentenary of the poet's birth (which falls on 9 April), the collected pages of his art criticism still hum with a sense of outrage: a kind of personal...
- 15From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America 17 February-6 June New Museum, New York Catalogue by Okwui Enwezor, Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, Mark Nash et al. ISBN 9781838661298 (hardback),...
- 16From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS OF ART & ANTIQUES England OLYMPIA AUCTIONS Arms and Armour, British & Continental Pictures, European & Asian Works of Art, Maritime & Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art. 25 Blythe Road,...
- 17From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)This month marks 300 years since Robert Walpole (1676-1745) became Britain's first 'Prime Minister'. The title was not a formal one; it still exists only through political convention. However, with the positions he...
- 18From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)Frick Madison Opened 18 March It was the intention of the coal and steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) that 'the entire public shall forever have access' to the art-filled mansion in Manhattan where he spent...
- 19From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)The former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when asked by a journalist what was most likely to knock a government off course, is said to have responded: 'Events, dear boy, events.' Whether or not the remark is...
- 20From:Apollo (Vol. 193, Issue 696)Illuminated manuscripts, luminous Neo-Impressionism and a Persian painting newly brought to light feature in April's sales. February saw the market adjusting well to the pandemic, with new ways of organising fairs and...