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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)As Los Angeles's ascension to global art capital continues, it is worth remembering that the art scene in the city has never been as isolated and ignored as popular history would suggest. It is true that the art scene...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)The Musee de Cluny is the only national museum in France dedicated to the Middle Ages. After a sensitive but exacting--refurbishment, its many masterpieces can now bring us closer to the past than ever before Walking...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)The wine critic Elin McCoy recently pondered the question of whether wine was an art form, concluding, 'does it really matter?' There have been a growing number of connections between wineries and artists in recent...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Philip Jackson: A Life in Sculpture Tim Bouquet Studio Gallery Publications, 35 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780954235741 Since the toppling of John Cassidy's bronze memorial statue of Edward Colston in Bristol last...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Raqib Shaw: Palazzo della Memoria Ca' Pesaro, Venice 22 April-25 September www.capesaro.visitmuve.it With this new suite of 12 paintings, the London-based artist has drawn on Venetian masters to create lavish fusions...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 6 April-5 September www.whitney.org Planning for this year's Whitney began in 2019--before the pandemic, the protests about the murder...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Underlying their preoccupation with dreams and the unconscious was, for the Surrealists--and especially for their leading theoretician, Andre Breton--a very practical desire to change the world. Who's to say they didn't...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Florine Stettheimer: A Biography Barbara Bloemink Hirmer, 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9783777438344 When Florine Stettheimer arrived in Manhattan in 1914, she found the city undergoing a triumphant...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Bastion House is aptly named. Looming over London Wall, it has a monolithic grandeur, every inch the imperious, modern office building (Fig. 1). At 17 storeys high, it would be a mere stripling in Manhattan, but with its...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Introducing the exhibition, 'Surrealism Beyond Borders' (until 29 August), Tate Modern declares on its website that 'Surrealism is not a style--but a state of mind.' Currently it seems to be one shared by all of us. In...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Watches: A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Development of the Watch Cecil Clutton and George Daniels Philip Wilson Publishers, 95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781781301135 This timeless classic by the...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)As World Earth Day rocks around, museums and galleries will be among the institutions keen to display their environmental credentials. But is their commitment to slowing climate change just hot air? People who work in...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Cecilia Alemani, artistic director of the Venice Biennale, is putting women artists at the heart of the main exhibition this year. She talks to Apollo about shaking up established institutions and grabbing the viewer's...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)1. The Language of Beauty in African Art Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth 3 April-31 July www.kimbellart.org African masks and sculptures have long been admired in the West for their beauty--but, as this show of 150...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)The visual art world is getting textier and textier. Few institutional exhibitions now come without captioning lengthier than a parliamentary report. The more self-important commercial galleries publish weighty...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Audubon's Birds of America 12 February-8 May National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh John James Audubon's The Birds of America, begun in 1826 and completed 12 years later, comprising 435 huge colour plates of more...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)Gold in America: Artistry, Memory, Power 25 February-10 July Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven I am startled to see a distorted reflection of my face, funhouse-style, on the silky, bulbous walls of a Tiffany...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)In early March, London was gearing up for what should have been a revival of the pre-pandemic auction market: face-to-face auction previews with people travelling again for the first time, brunches and drinks gatherings,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 707)With the art world steeling itself for a frantic summer, as major fairs in Maastricht, Basel, London and Paris jostle for attention, events in Geneva this spring promise a moment of welcome tranquillity. It is now is...