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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Maeve Gilmore (1917-83) is one of the 20th century's 'known unknowns'. As a painter of promise in the 1930s, Gilmore exhibited paintings at the Redfern and Wertheim galleries. Then, throughout her marriage to Mervyn...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)We are thrilled to be returning to the Shed,' says Christine Messineo, director of Frieze New York, which is celebrating its 10th edition this month. Last year's shift from the usual big white tent in Randall's Island to...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)I recently rewatched the 11-part television serial Brideshead Revisited, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel of the same name. Brideshead is an elegy for the demise of a privileged cadre and the environment through which it...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Traditionally, May has been a time when the art market tends to hit the headlines. Reports of the big auctions of Impressionist and modern and post-war and contemporary art in New York and the enormous amounts paid...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Elizabeth David had little time for food photography. 'You can't do colour pictures of food,' she told Audrey Withers, her editor at Vogue from the mid 1950s: 'I think they're bloody awful.' That stance softened as David...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Boilly: Parisian Chronicles (1761-1845) 16 February-26 June Musee Cognacq-Jay, Paris Catalogue (in French) by Annick Lemoine (ed.) et al. ISBN 9782759605187 (paperback), 29.90 [euro] (Paris Musees) Early on...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Franz Kafka: The Drawings Andreas Kilcher (ed.), with Pavel Schmidt and Judith Butler, trans. by Kurt Beals Yale University Press, 35 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780300260663 Towards the end of his life, Kafka was...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Seventy-five years ago, in his studio in a Long Island barn, Jackson Pollock made the first of the works that would come to define him. These were (and are) known as 'drip paintings', although dripping was hardly to the...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Tottenham High Road is unusually straight by the standards of London's streets. It owes its linearity to the Romans, having begun life as part of the road connecting Londinium with Lindum Colonia (modern-day Lincoln)....
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)To contemporaries, Glyn Philpot was a society portraitist, a successor to Sargent. It's his other side, as a painter of Black and queer subjects, that stands out for modern audiences Glyn Philpot (1884-1937) was one of...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat Benedicte Savoy (trans. by Susanne Meyer-Abich) Princeton University Press, 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780691234731 The expert on restitution...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Silversmithing has had a turbulent history on the Iberian Peninsula. The market is quiet, but showing signs of new life, writes Emma Crichton-Miller It is the fate of silver not to survive. At moments of historical...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)This shield attributed to Girolamo da Treviso (c. 1498-1544) was not meant to function on its own, but was designed as part of a suite. About six of these very closely related shields are known to have survived; they...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)One morning last October, I took the train from London to Aberdeen to attend a ceremony. The University of Aberdeen was handing back a sculpture of a head, cast in metal in the 18th century, to a delegation from Nigeria...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Salon du Dessin Palais Brongniart, Paris 18-23 May Salon du Dessin, now in its 30th edition, will open this May, after the postponement of the event from March. Highlights include Eudocimus Ruber, pictured here,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)The preview of the Venice Biennale this year was the most hotly anticipated in living memory, taking place after a three-year gap instead of the usual two because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from artistic director...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 195, Issue 708)Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965 3 March-26 June Barbican Art Gallery, London Catalogue by Jane Alison (ed.) ISBN 9783791379357 (hardback), 45 [pounds sterling] (Prestel) The Barbican is an apt...