Recently added articles from Apollo:
L'Aquila after the earthquake: the Italian authorities are rightly focusing on the immediate needs of the citizens of L'Aquila after April's earthquake but the long-term project of restoring the historic centre is essential to ensuring the city's future.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Nearly two months have passed since the earthquake that shook the Abruzzo region of Italy in the early hours of 6 April. The city of L'Aquila was devastated: nearly 300 people died and most of the historic centre was wrecked. It remains a disaster area: 30,000 people are living in tents on ...
Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for June.(Calendar)
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Throughout her career Georgia O' Keeffe cited the art of Arthur Dove (1880-1946) as an inspiration. 'Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence' is at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (7 June-7 September). Left: Dove's Sunrise 1, ...
A discovery trail: master paintings week in London: Susan Moore previews the highlights and revelations on show in an enterprising new venture devised by two of London's most distinguished Old Master dealers.(London, England)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Some initiatives make such obvious good sense that it is hard to imagine why no one has thought of them before. So it is with Master Paintings Week in London (4-10 July). Like Master Drawings London--with which it coincides (see pages 26-28)--this 'open-house' ...
London calling: the pick of London's fine art fairs this summer: for the art market, June is London's month. Isabel Andrews previews the capital's enticing array of fairs, from Old Master drawings to contemporary ceramics.(London, England)(Calendar)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques fair (11-17 June), the oldest and most revered of London s fairs, offers a roll-call of the I world s most illustrious dealers, many of whom make their only appearance in the UK ...
Collectors & collecting: an exhibition of Jean Bonna's outstanding collection of Old Master drawings opens at the National Gallery of Scotland this month. At home in Geneva, he talks to Louise Nicholson about his love for works of art on paper.(Geneva, Switzerland)(Interview)(Cover story)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Jean Bonna bought his large 1860s home m central Geneva seven years ago expressly to house his formidable lifelong assembly of French literature first editions and his more recently gathered European Master drawings. The arrangement of them and their settings ...
Pastiche or fake? A 'Donatello' by Medardo Rosso: in 1894 the Royal Museums in Berlin bought a small bronze that was believed to have been cast from a wax model by Donatello. Volker Krahn reveals that it is in fact an exercise in renaissance pastiche by the great 19th-century Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso--or could he have made it to be sold as a fake?(Berlin, Germany)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURES 1-2 OMITTED] One of the most famous small bronzes in Berlin's Skulpturensammlung is a statuette of David triumphing over Goliath (Figs 1 and 2). (1) Together with a number of other bronzes, it was acquired in 1894 by Wilhelm von Bode, director of the sculpture ...
Giacometti's final frenzy: the paintings of Caroline: for five years, from 1960 to 1965, Giacometti was obsessed with painting his final muse, a prostitute known as Caroline. Bruce Laughton explores the development of these powerful and moving portraits of a woman who described herself as the artist's 'frenzy' but showed no interest in the works.
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Alberto Giacometti met Caroline at the end of 1958. He was then 57, she was 20, living in the Hotel de Sevres in Montparnasse, and working as a flourishing prostitute. (1) They struck up a close friendship and he saw her frequently, apparently from around ...
A connoisseur's eye: George Byng's boulle furniture: the politician George Byng was an astute collector, well-placed to take advantage of the art market after the Napoleonic wars. Charles Cator and Alexandre Pradere introduce a pair of coffers and a cabinet-on-stand bought by Byng, masterpieces that can be securely attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle.
Jun 01, 2009; ... George Byng's long and distinguished life--born in 1764, he died in 1847--reflected the aspirations of the age in which he lived. (1) At a parliamentary dinner celebrating his 50th year of service in the House of Commons he was complemented as 'a fine old English Gentleman full of humour ...
Art now: Europe: shadow lands: exhibitions cast light on the theme of shadows--and new galleries in London are brightening the economic gloom.(London, England)
Jun 01, 2009; ... 'All knowledge is enveloped in darkness. What we perceive are no more than isolated lights in the abyss of ignorance, in the shadow-filled artifice of the world. We study the order of things but cannot grasp their innermost essence.' Those of us who enjoy making shadows of bunnies with ...
Forgotten prophet: the acclaim given to the remodelled whitechapel gallery has neglected its remarkable architect.(ARCHITECTURE)(Charles Harrison Townsend)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] The reopening of the expanded Whitechapel Gallery has rightly attracted much attention and was celebrated in the April issue of APOLLO. But what was striking was how very few of the authors of articles in non-specialist ...
Market preview: art Basel reaches the age of 40 and an auction in Germany celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus school of art and design.(THE ART MARKET: NEWS, ANALYSIS AND PREVIEWS FOR COLLECTORS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Believe it or not, this month will see the 40th Art Basel (10-14 June). No doubt the local gallerists who founded the event had no idea that it would evolve into the world's most extraordinary art event. Art Basel takes over the entire city- day and night -and ...
Art business: recession may be good news for the newly fashionable private not-for-profit galleries.
Jun 01, 2009; ... There is less than a month to go before her new not-for-profit gallery opens and Nonna Materkova, the founder of Calvert 22, is wandering through the dust produced by about 20 builders. The gallery will house exhibitions of contemporary art from Russia and Eastern Europe. There is clearly ...
Collectors' focus: maiolica: there are signs that this market is at last moving beyond its Italian roots to appeal to a wider public who want to collect Italian renaissance art at affordable prices.
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] This month's Art Market (pages 70-72) draws attention to the results of Lyon and Turnbull's inaugural sale at Blenheim Palace on 8 April. Remarkably, it was not objects highlighted in its previews that took the most money, but a collection of maiolica and ...
Around the galleries: contemporary drawings, sporting art, and little-known work by the St Ives group are on offer in London.(London, England)(Calendar)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Among the array of superb exhibitions that London is staging this month, two offer an opportunity to see work by female artists whose reputations are overshadowed by their artist husbands. Messums (8 Cork Street, London; +44 (0)20 7437 5545) is showing recent work by Rose Hilton, widow of ...
East meets West: Susan Moore reports on the Hermitage's new museum, in a 17th-century building in Amsterdam. It opens this month with an exhibition on the 19th-century Russian court.(EXHIBITIONS)(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Amsterdam will never be quite the same again. On 20 June, after nearly two decades of planning, a vastly extended Hermitage Amsterdam will fling open the great oxen gate of its new premises--the newly restored 17th-century Amstelhof--and celebrate. With good reason. This 40m [euro] ...
A question of style: the Victoria & Albert Museum's magnificent exploration of the baroque makes up in visual flair what it lacks in scholarly depth.(EXHIBITIONS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... While rehearsing the role of Sieglinde in his grandfather s opera Die Walkure Wieland V c Wagner asked the great Austrian soprano Leonie Rysanek to be less emotive, more restrained, more 'classical'. She replied that she was not a 'classical' artist, she was spontaneous, she was 'barock' ....
Relaxing on the river: an exhibition focusing on Gustave Caillebotte's depictions of water captures the essence of his art.(EXHIBITIONS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Gustave Caillebotte sold very few pictures during his lifetime the commercial promotion of his work being a matter of almost complete indifference to him. He had a substantial fortune, bequeathed to him by his prosperous but short-lived father, and was by far ...
Take courage: the new towner in Eastbourne bravely takes this fine collection into the 21st century.(Eastbourne, England's Towner Art Gallery)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] I viewed the new Towner with a mixture of regret and admiration. Eastbourne's original Towner Art Gallery, housed in a rambling manor house beside beautiful gardens in the Old Town, set just across the road from the church where the painter John Hamilton ...
Dolphins in the swim: this month Thames and Hudson celebrates its 60th anniversary. Michael Hall talks to the chairman and managing director of this celebrated family-owned publisher about the challenges that it faces in fulfilling its founders' mission--to publish illustrated books to the highest standard for the widest possible market.(Thomas Neurath, Jamie Camplin)(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Look at the bookshelves of anybody with an interest in art, and it's a fair bet that there will be a group of paperbacks with black spines sporting a pair of gambolling dolphins. The World of Art series, launched in 1958, is a brand almost as familiar as ...
English Cottages and Farmhouses.(THAMES AND HUDSON: THE FIRST 30 YEARS: Thomas Neurath's choice of the key art titles)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ENGLISH COTTAGES AND FARMHOUSES Photographs by Edwin Smith Text by Olive Cook [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thames and Hudson's first large-format title with sheet-fed photogravure plates documenting specific building types in England was English ...