Apollo back issues from November 2007:
What makes bubbles burst?
Nov 01, 2007; ... London's Frieze Art Fair, which dominates the capital for a week in October, is the best possible place to take the temperature of the market for contemporary art. This year, it gave the impression of a healthy simmer rather than an alarming boil. There was little sign that the market as a ...
Ten to catch Apollo's selection for the month ahead.(Calendar)
Nov 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over 100 works by Lucas Cranach the Elder are on show at the Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, in 'Cranach the Elder', which opens on 23 November (until 17 February). Left: Portrait of a Saxony, Princess, c. 1512. +069 605 098 200 One of the great ...
Master of mud: Martin Gayford talks to Richard Long: Richard Long is the world's most celebrated exponent of landscape art. Using the most basic materials--mud, stone, water--and a simple repertoire of geometric shapes, he creates works that have a powerful emotional resonance. This is art that, as he explains, has 'a big idea'.(Biography)
Nov 01, 2007 ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Richard Long is a man of many parts. He is the world's pre-eminent mud-connoisseur, art's leading pedestrian and perhaps the greatest exponent of landscape sculpture to have emerged from the minimalist and conceptual art movements of the 1960s. Long has an ...
From the director of the Watts Gallery.(LETTER & NEWS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The last thing any of us at the Watts Gallery wants is to deaccession any part of the collection (Editorial, APOLLO, September 2007). However, our grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund is contingent on our ability to raise an endowment for the gallery and so ensure the long-term future of ...
American museum to sell paintings.(LETTER & NEWS)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA, has sparked controversy by announcing plans to sell paintings from the Maier Museum of Art, home of the college's $100m collection, to raise funds for the college. Four works from the collection of mostly 18th- and 19th-century American artists ...
A decade of remarkable growth: acquisitions by the Freer and Sackler Galleries: the Freer and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC, contain one of the world's great collections of Asian art. The Galleries' deputy director, James Ulak, presents a selection of their most oustanding gifts and purchases between 1996 and 2006, the centenary of Charles Lang Freer's gift of the founding collection.
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, opened its doors to the public in September 1923. It was the culmination of a gift to the nation initiated in 1906 by the Detroit industrialist and collector Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919). Freer's donation--a collection, a building and the ...
Searching for his lost heritage: Christopher Ondaatje's Sri Lankan collection: at Glenthorne, his home in Devon, Christopher Ondaatje talks to Amin Jaffer about his love for Sri Lankan culture and history. His deeply biographical collection draws on his memories of life in Ceylon, which he had to abandon while still a boy.(Biography)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Sir Christopher Ondaatje's life reads like a novel centred on a charismatic and brilliant protagonist who overcomes innumerable obstacles to achieve great success and international fame. Like his talisman, the black leopard, ...
In pursuit of the divine: arts from the Sikh courts of the Punjab: the Sikh rulers of the Punjab lavishly patronised artists and craftsmen as part of a deliberate emphasis on ceremonial magnificence. Jasleen Kandhari explores the rich legacy of Sikh arts from the reign of the first Sikh Maharaja to the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849.
Nov 01, 2007; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Sikh arts are increasingly in demand by collectors as interest and awareness of this tradition in south Asian culture grows. Based in the Punjab, which encompasses the north-western region of the south Asian subcontinent, the Sikhs are primarily a religious ...
Mumbai's story: a Victorian masterpiece revived: India's second oldest museum, the Dr Bhau Daji Lad, has been spectacularly restored as a museum of Mumbai history, after years of neglect.
Nov 01, 2007; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Among the progeny of London's Great Exhibition of 1851 is an extravagant museum about local trade and life built in Bombay. Loyally named the Victoria and Albert Museum, it opened on 2 May 1872, and was an instant popular success. It fell from fashion after ...
Almost unbearable: the haunting German war cemeteries in Belgium contain one of the greatest artistic responses to world War I.(ARCHITECTURE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] November, melancholy and damp, always brings to mind the Great War of 1914-18, the legacy of which haunts us still. And this November marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the Third Battle of Ypres, better known as the futile, muddy slaughter of ...
Around the galleries: a stellar exhibition of Old Master paintings and a host of prestigious art and antique fairs sets up November as a bumper month for collectors.(THE ART MARKET: NEWS, ANALYSIS AND PREVIEWS FOR COLLECTORS)(Calendar)
Nov 01, 2007; ... This autumn provides a treat for collectors and admirers of Old Master paintings. Not to be missed is a collaborative exhibition in New York by Whitfield Fine Art (180 New Bond Street, London; +44 [0]20 7499 3592) and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (22 East 71 Street, New York; +212 879 ...
Thorn in the flesh Baselitz in London: in his restrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy Georg Baselitz emerges as an artist who provocatively brings bold techniques to bear on a few deeply felt themes, writes Corinna Lotz. Above all, he has said, 'what I could never escape was Germany and being German'.(EXHIBITIONS)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] In a memorable line in Marion Brando's 1953 film The Wild One Mildred asks biker Johnny what he is rebelling against. 'Whaddya got?' he drawls. Georg Baselitz shares this need to be a contrarian, a thorn in the flesh. Again and again this agent provocateur ...
A noble set of books: Mark Evans reviews an exhibition on one of the most celebrated libraries of the Italian renaissance, created by Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino.(EXHIBITIONS)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, was idealised as the light of Italy' in Castiglione s Book of the Courtier (1528) and his state praised as 'a work of art' in Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilizalion of Renaissance Italy (1860). He is best-remembered for his distinctive profile portrait ...
Hockney's Turner: David Hockney has chosen a group of Turner watercolours for a display at Tate Britain. How successful has he been?(EXHIBITIONS)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Recently Tate Britain created a small problem for itself. It had agreed to lend a large number of its finest Turner oil paintings to a major exhibition of the artist's works that was being mounted at three leading museums in the United States. How, then, ...
Life at Malmaison: Diana Scarisbrick visits an exhibition from Russia that evokes the Empress Josephine's house, garden and collections.(EXHIBITIONS)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Visitors to this exhibition at the Hermitage Rooms in London may well wonder why so many choice possessions from Malmaison, favourite home of the Empress Josephine, should now be in Russia. The answer is that she and her children, Hortense and Eugene, were linked to the Tsars Alexander I ...
Banishing the mists of antiquity: Rosemary Sweet reviews an exhibition at the Royal Academy that reassesses the significance of the Society of Antiquaries.(EXHIBITIONS)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The word 'antiquary' has always had somewhat pejorative overtones: even in the 18th century, when the Society of Antiquaries was founded, its members were the frequent butt of satire, mocked for their indiscriminate fascination with the detritus of the past. Cartoons by Thomas Rowlandson, ...
Forgotten fauve: a travelling exhibition has reestablished the reputation of that key but oddly obscure Fauve painter Emile-Othon Friesz.(EXHIBITIONS)
Nov 01, 2007; ... To even the most conscientious gallery-goer, the name Emile-Othon Friesz is relatively unfamiliar. His early works have featured in numerous Fauve exhibitions and displays but ultimately, as the 18 years since his last retrospective indicate, his work has attracted little attention ....
Creating in chaos: Rosemary Hill's biography of Pugin brilliantly evokes his times as well as his extraordinary life.(BOOKS)(God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain )(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain ROSEMARY HILL Penguin/Allen Lane, 30 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780500093344 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the heart of the 1851 Great Exhibition was Augustus Welby Northcote ...
In the steps of Vasari: he left out Bernini and Rembrandt, but Bellori's Lives of artists are still an essential text for students of 17th-century art. David Howarth welcomes the first translation.(BOOKS)(The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors & Architects )(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors & Architects by Giovan Pietro Bellori TRANSLATED BY ALICE SEDGWICK WOHL & HELLMUT WOHL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TOMASO MONTANARI Cambridge University Press, 75/$130 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0521781876 As ...
Chapel plate and egg-cups: Tessa Murdoch praises a fine National Trust catalogue of the remarkable collection of silver at Dunham Massey, Cheshire.(BOOKS)(Country House Silver from Dunham Massey )(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Country House Silver from Dunham Massey JAMES LOMAX AND JAMES ROTHWELL The National Trust, 40 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781858943732 This study of the Huguenot silver collected by George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington, places the acquisition and ...
Byzantium on the Volga: Andrew Hopkins applauds a rich account of Russian architecture and the west.(BOOKS)(Russian Architecture and the West)(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Russian Architecture and the West DMITRY SHVIDKOVSKY Yale University Press, 50 [pounds sterling]/$75 ISN 9780300109122 Dmitry Shvidkovsky's impressive book presents Russian architecture and the west's influence on its development, in a series ...
All change: St Pancras Station reopens this month as London's European terminal. Michael Hall reviews an incisive short history of a Victorian masterpiece.(BOOKS)(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] St Pancras Station SIMON BRADLEY Profile Books, 14.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781861979964 On 14 November Eurostar opens its service between London and the continent on the new rail link connecting St Pancras Station with the Channel Tunnel ....
Making it up: in the May 1988 issue, Alvar Gonzales Palacios published his reflections on Italian writing on art since the war. Here he discusses one notorious aspect of art-historical practice: the provision of certificates of authenticity for works of art.(FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES)
Nov 01, 2007; ... A mysterious, and at the same time notorious, aspect of our profession is the thousands of pages, written and never published: the famous expertises or certificates of artistic authenticity. Kilometres of handwritten affidavits (often on the back of bad photographs), enough to carpet the ...