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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)The Galleria Nazionale deH'Umbria (GNU) in Perugia is, says its director Marco Pierini, 'the most national civic museum in Italy'. It is a neat formulation for an institution otherwise hard to define. The GNU is...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)The Armory Show The Javits Center 9-11 September javitscenter.com Returning to the expanded Javits Center for a second year, the Armory Show proves it has come a long way since its first edition in 1994 at the...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)When Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi bought the grand Palazzo Butera in 2015, it was in need of major renovation. Seven years later, it has been transformed into a space that celebrates its palatial history while also...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)The Golden Age of the Portuguese Renaissance 10 June-10 October Musee du Louvre, Paris Catalogue (in French) by Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau and Joaquim Oliveira Caetano ISBN 9782382030653 (paperback), 29 [euro] (In Fine...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Stepping out of the airport on South Korea's Jeju Island in August, seeing palm trees after the 55-minute flight from Seoul, I was overcome with joy. So many pleasures awaited! At the risk of sounding like a government...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)September is not traditionally a time when gardens are at their best, so it might appear counter-intuitive to have a garden on the cover of Apollo this month. But gardens are not only there for the flowers. They play an...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Annette Messager's wry installations include everything from cuddly toys to supersized versions of everyday objects. But, as two major exhibitions this year reveal, her art is much tougher than it looks In Annette...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) is one of the chief glories of the English Enlightenment, its beauty colouring the perspective of anyone who has looked, even for a moment, into...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)French lessons at school made me hungry. The classroom had a poster that depicted the country as a great gathering of cheeses; a fantasy fromagerie in which every wheel and truckle, every pyramid of chevre, denoted its...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Treasures of Herat Barbara Brend Gingko Library, 60 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781909942547 During the reign of Sultan Husain Bayqara (1470-1506), Herat reached an apogee of cultural excellence. Descended from the...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it,' Madame de Pompadour once declared. She would know, having--equally legendarily --lent her breast as a mould for the lead crystal shallow coupe,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain Verity Wilson Reaktion, 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781789145298 In the dark depths of lockdown, Jane Asher's Fancy Dress (1983), a handy guide to making costumes...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)For much of the past three years, talk of art fairs has hinged on how best to adapt to a world transformed by the pandemic and the rise of the digital sphere. Not so for Fabrizio Moretti, the secretary general of...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Fortuny: Time, Space, Light Wendy Ligon Smith, 35 [pounds sterling] Yale University Press ISBN 9780300254150 Best known as a fashion designer, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo also tried his hand at everything from light and...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)The Garden of Tropical Agronomy in Paris was a test bed for the French empire. Today its grounds are neglected and, as activists call for their preservation, the City of Paris seems thoroughly uncertain what to do On a...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)In 1622, the scaffolding came down from the new Banqueting House that James I had commissioned for his palace at Whitehall. It was the third building to stand on the site and the second commissioned by James --the first...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall Alexandra Lange Bloomsbury (hardback), $28 ISBN 978163SS76023 Having children converted me to the shopping mall. Before my first child, I took my cues on the...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Milton Avery never quite settled on a style. So is he really a forgotten American great, asks Charles Darwent Milton Avery: American Colourist 15 July-16 October 2022 Royal Academy of Arts, London Catalogue by Edith...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Can political and commercial clout co-exist in the art world? This year's edition of Documenta gives cause for doubt, writes Jane Morris It is high summer, the temperature is 40[degrees]C, and in a conifer-screened...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 711)Cezanne 15 May-5 September Art Institute of Chicago Catalogue by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina (eds.) ISBN 9781849768283 (hardback), 40 [pounds sterling] (Tate Publishing)...