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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Our picks of the month 1. Raphael Montanez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective Museo Tamayo, Mexico City 15 October-2 April 2023 museotamayo.org In 1957, Montanez Ortiz began his career with a series of...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Alfred Munnings: The Art of the Poster 6 April-23 October Munnings Art Museum, Dedham A visit to the Essex village of Dedham, on the river Stour in the heart of Constable Country, is a summer pleasure. Among the...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Apollo is thrilled to present this year's Apollo 40 Under 40 list, the ninth edition of the project and the first to focus on the Asia Pacific region since 2016. Much has changed over the last six years--the region is...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)The first brutalist building dates, in my opinion, not from the 1950s, has nothing to do with Le Corbusier or the Smithsons and was designed not by an architect but by the mystic, occultist, educationalist and...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)The fair returns to Regent's Park in London for its 10th anniversary. From Jacobean portraits to modern masters, here are some of the highlights. 1. Parcel-gilt silver stem cup, AD 618-907, Tang dynasty, China,...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)This work by John Singer Sargent is one of the many sketches of Madame Gautreau that he worked on in preparation for his once scandalous, now famous portrait Madame X (1884)--at least 10 sketches for this painting...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures Maria Golia Reaktion Books, 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781789146295 Indiana Jones, Assassin's Creed, Lara Croft: popular culture has blurred...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)At Home in the World: A Memoir Ibrahim El-Salahi; Salah M. Hassan (ed.) Skira/The Africa Institute, 55 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9788857246529 Born in Sudan in 1930, Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most important...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)It would be pretentious of us to say that we're suddenly bringing the light to Paris,' says Clement Delepine, director of Parishpar Art Basel--though it's fair to add that, back in January, the fair did generate rather a...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Once upon a time, everybody knew Bingo. In San Francisco in the 1970s, it's said she couldn't walk down the street in North Beach or Chinatown without someone calling out her name. Bernice Bing, the statuesque artist...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)The design and art fair returns after a two-year hiatus --here's our pickfrom the fair's 67 galleries specialising in 20th-century and contemporary design. 1. Barrha Bar, 2021, Yann Le Coadic in collaboration with...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)In the early years of the 20th century, a number of pioneering women artists in Germany began to take an active role in exploring avant-garde ideas, often with startling results. If recognition of their signal...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture Adam Eaker Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 35 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781913107345 It is a cliche of British art history that Van Dyck's achievement...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Every house museum needs a hero. That usually means a writer, artist or composer; occasionally a politician makes the grade. An outlier is Auguste Escoffier, who is celebrated at the Musee Escoffier de l'Art Culinaire at...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)'Whatpainter does not steal in some way?' --Carlo Cesare Malvasia (1616-93) A few years ago, I was at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., looking at The Baptism of Christ (164142) by Nicolas Poussin...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Critics love inventing categories--it's how we pretend we're influential. Some years ago, we invented one called 'slow painting'. That 'slow' referred not to the painting's execution, but to the time demanded for its...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 196, Issue 712)Born in 1922--the annus mirabilis of high modernism--Lucian Freud dedicated his life to a discipline, figurative painting, that abstraction had long rendered unfashionable and photography had made functionally obsolete....