Apollo back issues from December 2008:
The best things in life ... The art world's frenetic emphasis on money and fashion is taking a big knock from the global credit crisis--but that provides an opportunity to celebrate some unfashionable virtues.
Dec 01, 2008; ... I made a promise to myself this month that I wouldn't write about money. Despite the hideously, compelling nature of the credit crisis, I'm weary of the question of what I think its impact on the art market is going to be--if I had a pound for every time I've been asked that recently, the ...
Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for December.
Dec 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection' opens at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on 13 December (until 5 April). It includes Louis Welden Hawkins's Peasant Woman in a Landscape (left; c. 1880). ...
Artist's home under offer: the film director Michael Winner has lovingly restored his Victorian artist's house in London as a setting for his collection. He plans to give both to the nation--if it will let him--as he tells Louise Nicholson.(R.P. ART)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] 'Come in, come in, dear', says Michael Winner, with a tinge of irritation, from behind a large paper-loaded desk in his sumptuous upstairs study. 'Absolute chaos here because we have this wonderful chandelier and the transformers have stopped working. We ...
The Apollo Awards 2008.(Editorial)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Every December for the past 16 years APOLLO has given awards for outstanding achievements in the world that the magazine represents. The winners receive no money, or even a crystal fruit bowl, but are able, I hope, to reflect that they are chosen after long debate, and always against ...
Personality of the year Eugene v. Thaw: a distinguished dealer as well as a major collector, Eugene V. Thaw has immeasurably enriched the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, with his gifts. Louise Nicholson visits him at home.(THE APOLLO AWARDS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] 'I don't give interviews. I'm a remote personality. I'm not easily accessible', says Eugene Thaw, sitting straight-backed on a chair in his book-lined living room, legs crossed, dressed in tidy tweed jacket and brown trousers, high-altitude sun burning down ...
Renaissance portraiture & the art of remembrance.(AXA ART: RENAISSANCE FACES)
Dec 01, 2008; ... As the exhibition 'Renaissance Faces' at the National Gallery in London reveals, the renaissance elevated portraiture to a central role in western art, for reasons investigated by James R. Lindow of AXA Art Insurance. 'Painting possesses a truly divine power in that not only ...
Museum opening of the year: the Museum of Arts & Design, New York: the unveiling of the new home of the Museum of Arts & Design has aroused intense debate in New York. Whatever you think about Brad Cloepfil's remodelling of a celebrated Manhattan building, there is no doubt that the museum itself is a great success.(THE APOLLO AWARDS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... This September, the Museum of Arts and Design premiered its new building at 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan. As with the New Museum's new building in New York half a year earlier, the architecture, physical plan, facilities, exhibition spaces, neighbourhood and siting were subject to ...
Exhibition of the year: Philippe de Montebello's final year as director of the Metropolitan Museum was marked by an exhibition on pietre dure that characteristically fused scholarship with showmanship.
Dec 01, 2008; ... America has a new President and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a new Director. Both elevations have caused quite a stir. At the Met, Thomas Campbell is well equipped to take forward the scholarly, urbane and charismatic approach to museum curatorship of his predecessor, ...
Book of the year: Arthur MacGregor's account of the origin of public museums is a triumph.(THE APOLLO AWARDS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... 'Acukow sings by Clockwork, a Horseman rids, a Ship sails, an Old Woman walks, a Centaur runs and shoots, a Crab creeps upon a Table so wel as to amaze and delight, but among all, the Crab seems to be most naturally imitated.' As a well-connected English visitor to Dresden in 1668, Edward ...
Acquisition of the year: Tate's purchase of Rubens's preliminary sketch for his ceiling of the Whitehall Banqueting House was a race, won at the very last minute.
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In February 2007 APOLLO published a list of the 25 most significant works of art in British private collections, designed to draw attention to those supreme masterpieces that deserved, should they be sold, to be acquired for the national collections. For ...
Museum acquisitions: Apollo's selection from 2008.
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART The Crucifixion by Jacobello del Fiore (c. 1375-1439), c. 1400. Tempera on panel, 126 x 135 cm. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange The first Venetian ...
Tributes to a golden age.
Dec 01, 2008; ... To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening in 1983 of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, Robert Wenley discusses Sir William Burrell's enthusiastic pursuit of Dutch Old Masters. The paintings that he bought--which include a celebrated masterpiece by Rembrandt--reflect this great ...
Creating a scene: Eugenio Lopez Alonso is the creator of Coleccion Jumex in Mexico City, probably the most influential collection of contemporary art in Latin America. He talks to Louise Nicholson.(COLLECTORS & COLLECTING)
Dec 01, 2008; ... 'Thanks to the art world I am what I am today. It changed my life. I prefer to go to the Guggenheim than to a football match', says Eugenio Lopez Alonso, sole heir of Grupo Jumex, Mexico's largest producer of juices and soft drinks. His collection of more than 1,800 pieces of cutting-edge ...
Refreshing the scars: polish artists evoke their country's war-time past to ask painful questions about its present.(Artur Zmijewski and Edward Krasinski)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] By the time that you read this, the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day will have passed--another day of soulful remembrance for those who sacrificed their lives, and a time to pay homage to those killed in subsequent wars. For many of us, the experience of war ...
Lost Lululaund: Henry Hobson Richardson's one building outside America was a house in England, for the celebrated Victorian painter Hubert Von Herkomer.(ARCHITECTURE)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Just as some pets and their owners come to resemble one another, so some architects have the physical characteristics of their buildings. Of none was this more true than the great American Victorian architect Henry Hobson Richardson, who was as massive, as ...
Market preview: art Basel Miami Beach offers stellar attractions, and a gorgeous Tiepolo goes on sale in London.(Ketterer Kunst)
Dec 01, 2008; ... There is something peculiarly anxiety-inducing about today's gargantuan contemporary art fairs. No one can possibly see more than a fraction of their myriad component parts, so how does one apportion one's time between them and the stellar array of satellite fairs, museum shows, talks, ...
Market review: sales at London's art fairs were steady if not stratospheric, but October's auction-house results reflected fears of recession.(THE ART MARKET)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 5 OMITTED] One of the first questions on collectors' lips as the world's financial markets began to implode was how long would it take for the crisis to affect the art market? The collapse of Lehman Brothers on 15 September seemed to have little or no bearing on the ...
Roses blossom to set a record.(new auction record )(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 23 October a new auction record was set for Samuel John Peploe at Christie's Scottish Art sale, staged in financially-stricken Edinburgh. Roses, painted around 1922, exceeded expectations to sell for ...
Asian art market: Hong Kong's December sales offer spectacular Chinese works, and Phillips de Pury take Indian contemporary art to London and New York.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Christie's continues its HK$1.75bn ($224m) autumn series in Hong Kong this month with the sale of exceptional porcelain and classical Chinese paintings and calligraphy from the Ping Y. Tai Foundation. The late Ping Y. Tai was the wife of the celebrated connoisseur and dealer J.T. Tai; they ...
Pre-Columbian art: stringent export controls have reduced the size of this market in recent years, but a number of major collections formed in the 1960s are beginning to appear in the salerooms.(COLLECTOR'S FOCUS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Pre-Columbian art, as the arts of the Americas before the advent of European cultural influence are broadly described, has always appealed strongly to collectors outside South and central America, not only in the United States, where the attraction of a shared cultural heritage is most ...
Art business: fear of recession in the West has prompted traditional centres for art and culture to turn to the Middle East as a source of revenue.
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the midst of the worst economic crisis of a generation it is hard to make predictions about the eventual outcome. But in all likelihood some lines will shift on the financial political and cultural world maps. To what extent will the borders move? ...
Around the galleries: London has a fine selection of Christmas shows to tempt collectors, and major 20th-century works are on offer in Barcelona and New York.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Figurative travel paintings by Pip Todd Warmoth are in 'Another World' at the Kings Road Gallery (436 Kings Road, London; +44 (0)20 7351 1367) from 27 November until 31 January. The artist s oil landscapes are the culmination of 20 years of travel, including recent works resulting from ...
A giant in miniature: Riccio at the Frick: Riccio's small bronzes magically evoke classical antiquity by fusing creative intuition with masterly skill.(EXHIBITIONS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A contemporary of Michelangelo and Raphael, Giorgione and Titian, Andrea Riccio was an immensely self-confident goldsmith-turned-sculptor who cast his self-portrait in many of his works. They reveal why he called himself il Riccio--or 'curly head' (Fig ....
Faces and spaces: an ambitious but unsatisfactory survey of renaissance portraits reveals glaring problems with the exhibition galleries at both the Prado and the National Gallery, London.(EXHIBITIONS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like films, exhibitions based on books don't always work. Possibly the worst show at the National Gallery, London, in recent memory was 'Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting' in 2002. Great works of art were flown in from around the world to ...
Mantegna unfrozen: the Louvre's comprehensive and compelling exhibition challenges preconceptions about Mantegna's art.(EXHIBITIONS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Can one work be the summa of an artist's work? Of his interests, sensibilities, touch and talent? Arguably not. But in the case of Mantegna, whose priorities were remarkably consistent throughout his career, and of the Louvre's fascinating monographic exhibition, the artist seems to be ...
Life & loves of a pre-Raphaelite: Simon Poe finds Holman Hunt's portraits to be an unexpected relief from the laboured works for which he is best remembered.(EXHIBITIONS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Faced on all sides by examples of the painfully laborious technique with which he persisted until his eyesight failed, one almost begins to feel sorry for Holman Hunt before one gets to the end of this exhibition. Even successful masterworks from the 1850s, such as The Hireling Shepherd ...
Picasso and his masters: an exhibition juxtaposing Picasso with the artists who influenced him is an almost overwhelmingly rich experience.(EXHIBITIONS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Over a century after Picasso began to achieve a fame that would lead to a popular car, Citroen's Picasso, being named after him, he remains a controversial figure of wide interest. This exhibition is not only the artistic event of the year in Paris but also a popular attraction with 10,000 ...
New light on old books: Hugh Buchanan's watercolours transform books and libraries into subjects of mysterious romance.(EXHIBITIONS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Antiquarian books, fine bindings and historic libraries are the theme of Hugh Buchanan's 12th exhibition of watercolours at the Francis Kyle Gallery. Here, in contrast to his previous exhibitions, the architectural interiors for which he is best known and ...
Lines of succession: Gert-Rudolph Flick has assembled a 'lineage' of European painters that thought-provokingly mingles famous and obscure names.(Masters and Pupils: The Artistic Succession from Perugino to Manet )(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Masters and Pupils: The Artistic Succession from Perugino to Manet 1480-1880 GERT-RUDOLPH FLICK PAUL HOLBERTON, 50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780955406324 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For centuries an appreciation of classical antiquity was ...
Storms over Stonehenge: Rosemary Hill has written an incisive, witty account of Stonehenge's place in the landscape of ideas.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Stonehenge ROSEMARY HILL PROFILE BOOKS, 15.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 139781861978653 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No monument in the world, with the exception of the Great Pyramid and the Temple of Jerusalem, has been meditated upon as ...
Venetians in vogue: Simon P. Oakes applauds Nicholas Penny's catalogue of the National Gallery's later 16th-century Venetian paintings.(National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600)(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600 NICHOLAS PENNY The National Gallery/Yale University Press, 75 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781857099133 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following a ...
'Rothschilds of the East': the home of a great French 19th-century collector is justly celebrated in a sumptuous book.(The Camondo Legacy: The Passions of a Paris Collector)(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Camondo Legacy: The Passions of a Paris Collector MARIE-NOEL DE GARY THAMES & HUDSON, 29.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 139780500514108 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What motivates a collector? his visually ravishing book sets out to answer ...
Directory of international auctioneers of arts & antiques.(Directory)
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Directory of British art & antique dealers.(Directory)
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Directory of international art & antiques.(Directory)
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Directory of international shippers of art & antiques.(Directory)
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Directory of conservators & restorers of art & antiques.(Directory)
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Directory of international picture framers.(Directory)
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Directory of specialist consultants and valuers.(Directory)
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Art and the circus: in the August 1965 issue, Geoffrey Wagner examined the lure that the circus tent has for writers and artists, and its particular appeal to modern and impressionist painters.(FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Most of the great modern painters have been attracted by the circus. Being an earlier form of visual entertainment than the cinema or television, this 'powerful fine sight' as Mark Twain called it, has an international element--English riders, Russian clowns, French trapezists, Polish ...