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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Titian: Sources and Documents Charles Hope Ad Ilissum, 500 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781912168231 Every document relating to Titian and his work from his lifetime, as well as every reference to the painter in...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal Leonhart Fuchs; Werner Dressendorfer (ed.) Taschen, 125 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9783836587662 In this catalogue of some 500 medicinal plants and their healing properties, the...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Surrealism Beyond Borders 11 October 2021-30 January Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Catalogue by Stephanie D'Alessandro and Matthew Gale (eds.) ISBN 9781588397270 (hardback), 50 [pounds sterling]...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Last September Nadine Dorries was appointed the UK's new culture secretary. Within weeks of taking up the position, she had announced her intention to seek 'real change' at the BBC. Dorries argued that the broadcasting...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Cutlery has defied artists to find new forms. For inventiveness in tableware, animation holds the key, writes Thomas Marks Disney's table dramas Modern artists never got far with knives and forks. Take the set of...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)With art fairs throughout most of Europe still proving a moveable feast in 2022, it is striking that Maribel Lopez, the director of ARCO Madrid, is committed to speaking in terms of continuity. After last year's...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)A major exhibition spread across 18 venues in France seeks to highlight the rich variety of Islamic art. But will its heady mix of the sacred and profane be enough to counter the growing prejudices within French society?...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Sir Edward Hyde, later 1st Earl of Clarendon, veteran statesman and voluminous historian of the reign of Charles I, wrote of that monarch's rule without Parliament from 1628-40 as a time when 'this kingdom [...] enjoyed...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)New Orleans is the beneficiary of an auction of outsider art in New York this month, while a sale in London offers up the prospect of having the world in your pocket. In December, the 'Hamilton Aphrodite' marble achieved...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour & Sevres Porcelain Rosalind Savill Unicom Press, 200 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781916495715 This impressive and superbly illustrated two-volume book by Rosalind Savill is a...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)On 10 November 2021, Phillips, in association with Maak, staged 'The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection'. The auction saw many astonishing prices for British studio ceramics. Perhaps the most...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)We have become used to the white stone cliffs of the museums on Washington's National Mall--neoclassical, over-scaled and austere--but it might all have looked very different. The very first of the Smithsonian buildings,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)The highly stylised gestures and make-up of kabuki theatre have provided Japanese printmakers with a rich source of inspiration,. as an exhibition in Chicago shows. But this elegant tradition has far earthier origins...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Alice Bell It is hard being a science museum and it is perhaps especially hard being the Science Museum in London. Its title suggests all sorts of wonders to be found inside, but the reality is a lot more limited. Like...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Marcel Duchamp Robert Lebel Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 100 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9783906915517 In 1959, Marcel Duchamp's career was in the weeds. Not that he minded much. He had largely abandoned making art...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)I had, until recently, never seen one of George Bissill's devastating pictures. This is a shameful admission because before becoming an artist Bissill had been a coal miner, and the mines were his inspiration. The mines...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century Christina Riggs Atlantic Books, 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781838950514 All that can be said about Tutankhamun with any certainty is that he was a counter-revolutionary...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)Ai Weiwei has built a career on defying the Chinese state. Ahead of his latest exhibition in Cambridge, he tells Apollo how he has found freedom to create in the UK On 3 April 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 705)The Vanished Collection Pauline Baer de Perignon; Natasha Lehrer (trans.) Head of Zeus, 12.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781803280905 The author's account of tracking down the Impressionist paintings and French...