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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Centuries ago, the story goes, when the once-glorious Kingdom of Georgia was under attack from foreign enemies, patriotic art-lovers sent its treasures to the mountain fastness of Svaneti--a place no Mongol horde or...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)THE HUMBOLDT FORUM If there's one thing that sums up the awkwardness of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin's new flagship museum complex, it's the black flagpole that rises up through the building's central stairwell. Statue...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)The CoBrA group of artists was officially founded in a Parisian cafe on 8 November 1948, a reaction to the devastations of the Second World War. It took its name from the first letters of the cities where the founder...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)There's a memorable passage in Samuel Beckett's Molloy (1951), in which the vagrant narrator of the novel's first section ruminates on his method of sucking stones. The process of transferring 16 pebbles between his two...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Now in its 68th year, the Winter Show (20-30 January) in New York is America's leading art, antiques and design fair. It marks the start of the year's global fair merry-go-round, fielding a select group of 69 galleries...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton House Francis Russell Archaeopress Publishing, 80 [pound sterling] ISBN 9781789699845 Marvelling at Anthony Van Dyck's Pembroke family portrait in the Double...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)The first wave of British New Towns was an extraordinary achievement driven by an acute post-war housing need, particularly around London, and defying the critical shortage of building materials. Fourteen were designated...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain Tristram Hunt Allen Lane, 25 [pound sterling] ISBN 9780241287897 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is a long way from Cupertino, California. But...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Magritte: A Life Alex Danchev Profile Books, 30 [pound sterling] ISBN 9781781250778 Rene Magritte is thought of as a 'placid petit bourgeois who kept a modest house in a nondescript Brussels suburb', writes Alex...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)The Courtauld Institute and the Warburg Institute in London can be regarded as sister institutions that take different but complementary approaches to art history. Both are on the cusp of significant change The...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Can a museum have too much history? The Humboldt Forum in Berlin may be a new institution, but it has been so long in the planning that--like all projects conceived in different political and cultural circumstances--once...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Noguchi 30 September 2021-30 January Barbican Art Gallery, London Catalogue (in English) by Fabienne Eggelhofer, Rita Kersting and Florence Ostende (eds.) ISBN 9783791379272 (hardback), 35 [pound sterling]...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)29 July 2021, Jeffrey Gibson at the Smart Museum of Art. My photographs tell me that the first work I began living with, at the end of July, was a quilt collage by Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Apollo's selection of recently published books on art, architecture and the history of collecting Since 1839 ... ELEVEN ESSAYS ON PHOTOGRAPHY Clement Cheroux; trans. by Shane B. Lillis Ryerson Image Centre Books,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Exhibiting at Desmet Fine Art, Rue De La Regence 17, Le Sablon, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Preview evening: Thursday 20th January 5pm-10pm Open: Friday 21st to Sunday 30thjanuary 10am to 6pm daily or by appointment A...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)The value of a periodical can be judged by how long it outlives the cover date. There always seems to be something worth perusing in old issues of Country Life, for example, no matter how much time has passed since they...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)There are as many stories behind the creation of art collections as there are collections themselves, but there can be few that will bring a smile to the lips as surely as that of the New Hall Art Collection at Murray...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 704)Hermann Scherer: Grooves and Edges Kunstmuseum Basel 15 January-18 April www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch The three years before this Swiss Expressionist's death in 1927 were hugely fertile; turning to wood for the first...