Recently added articles from Apollo:
Art business: Christie's and Sotheby's have announced their results for the first half of 2009. Record prices are still being set, so why are the overall figures so dire?(Financial report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... If you want a clear idea of the schizophrenic nature of the art market so far this year--and the contrasting attitudes of buyers and sellers--you need look no further than the results of the two largest auction houses for the first six months of 2009, which were announced over the summer ....
Bigwigs & blackguards: a new history of the National Gallery, London, by a former director tackles the sensitive question of the often tense relationship between its trustees and director.(The National Gallery: A Short History)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; ... In 1854 the Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen offered the newly created post of director of the National Gallery, London, to the Scottish collector and art historian James Dennistoun. Why, replied Dennistoun, would he want to accept a post that involved 'endless squabbling from bigwigs and ...
Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for September.(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Raven Row, London, is staging 'Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium' from 4 September to 1 November. The exhibition, which is of works that Paolozzi made for Ambit magazine he was recruited by its literary editor, J.G. Ballard--includes the pop-art ...
Letter: the opening in June of the Acropolis Museum in Athens has rekindled the quarrel over the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum. Guy Weill Goudchaux--who is neither British nor Greek--invites us to consider some points.
Sep 01, 2009; ... It is possible to imagine circumstances in which the Greek demand that the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum should be returned to Athens might have greater force. If modern Greeks still worshipped Athena and intended to rebuild the Parthenon to use it again as a temple, their ...
Tribal triumph: Udo Horstmann and his wife, Wally, have filled their home in Switzerland with one of the world's greatest private collections of tribal art. As Mr Horstmann explains to Louise Nicholson, it is 'an expedition into another world'.(COLLECTORS & COLLECTING)(Interview)
Sep 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] It is a good thing that Udo Horstmann and his wife, Wally, live in a clean-lined modern house. For they keep their collection of tribal art from Africa, Micronesia and Polynesia--one of the foremost in Europe--at home. 'I have hundreds of pieces and in plain ...