Apollo back issues from May 2009:
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie ... It is hard to think of any artistically worthwhile depictions of a modern political leader or head of state, which is what makes Marcus Harvey's 'Maggie' so remarkable.
May 01, 2009; ... Thanks to the G20 summit and the ensuing round of international talks there was hardly a moment when the world's leaders were not off our television screens last month. The endless footage of Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel and all the rest made me think again how curious it is ...
Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for May.(Calendar)
May 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'In situ: Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich', shows works by the Russian couple displayed alongside paintings from the permanent collection in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (19 May-2 August). Left: a photograph from Makarevich's 1978-79 series ...
Best of Brussels: oriental, ancient and non-European art fairs: dealers in Asian art, antiquities and tribal arts from across the world converge on the Place du Grand Sablon in Brussels for a week of fairs in June. Annie Blinkhorn previews the highlights of BRUNEAF, BOAF and BAAF.(Brussels, Belgium; Brussels Non European Art Fair, Brussels Oriental Art Fair, Brussels Ancient Art Fair)(Calendar)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Every summer art dealers in Brussels vacate their premises to allow their colleagues dealing in tribal, Asian and ancient art to set up shop for three separate fairs taking place between 3 and 9 June. All the dealers participating are enthusiastic ...
A life in colour: the Merzbacher & Mayer collections: Werner Merzbacher has formed an astonishing collection of 20th-century art at its most radiant. He talks to Louise Nicholson at home in Switzerland about the pleasure that he gets from lending the works he loves to exhibitions.(COLLECTORS & COLLECTING)(Interview)
May 01, 2009; ... Werner Merzbacher and I are sitting in his living room on a sunny spring afternoon surrounded by his gathering of vivid, pure colour. For his modest Swiss home is filled with paintings by the French Fauve artists and their progeny--German Expressionists, Italian Futurists, Russian ...
Rebirth of a nation: the Metropolitan's American Wing: this month the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, unveils the transformation of its American Wing, which includes a new presentation of 12 of its period rooms. Philippa Glanville explains the curatorial challenges and assesses the results.
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ever since it opened in 1924, the American Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has had to cope with a sense of detachment. Originally it was a separate structure in a garden, linked to the north-west corner of the museum by a first-floor ...
Joining past and future: the Huntington's new American galleries: on 30 May the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art will be unveiled at the Huntington, San Marino. The Huntington's curator of American art, Jessica Todd Smith, introduces some of the recent acquisitions that will be included in the new displays.
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has long been known for its strong collection of European art, especially 18th- and early-19th-century British and French works. But the institution has evolved ...
From Moscow to Murnau: Marianne von Werefkin's early works led to her being called 'the Russian Rembrandt', but after she moved to Germany in 1896 she assumed an important place in the European avant-garde. Averil King introduces a painter who has long been overshadowed by her lover, Alexei Jawlensky.(Biography)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] 'I love what does not exist.' So wrote Marianne von Werefkin in her Lettres a un Inconnu (1901-05) expressing in words what she would try to convey in the atmospheric, spiritually charged paintings that she created at Murnau, ...
The women's rooms: a walk round Brooklyn and Manhattan galleries reveals the work of both new and well-known women artists.(ART NOW: NEW YORK)
May 01, 2009; ... I was having lunch with a painter, a curator, and an editor. Someone said the), thought a number of painters currently enjoying prominent exhibitions in New York were not worth looking at. This made me think about a perennial problem--bow does one stay in touch with developments that don't ...
Tent for a prince: 18th-century and regency buildings inspired by Turkish military tents were mostly temporary. Amazingly, one survives in south London, but its future is uncertain.(ARCHITECTURE)(London, England)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Placed over the balconies that flank the high altar in the Peterskirche in Vienna, that masterpiece by laced over the balconies that flank the high altar in the Peterskirche Lukas von Hildebrandt, are exotic onion-shaped semi-domes. These are reminders of the ...
Market preview: a celebrated Hockney is among the works from Betty Freeman's collection that will be offered in New York.(THE ART MARKET: NEWS, ANALYSIS AND PREVIEWS FOR COLLECTORS)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Betty Freeman was anything but a typical Beverly Hills housewife. Wealthy in her own right, Ms Freeman, who died in January at the age of 87, was one of the most influential patrons of new music of the last half-century. As well ...
Market review: Maastricht staged what may have been its best fair ever, but Asia Week had mixed results in New York.(ART MARKET)(Maastricht, Netherlands)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 6 OMITTED] This year's European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) at Maastricht was a real knockout (13-22 March). The fair has perhaps never looked better, nor offered so many thoughtful and well-presented stands. Boding well was the ravishing entrance confected by the Dutch ...
Art business: some businesses are doing rather well from the financial crisis, including pizza delivery, pawnbroking--and art loans.
May 01, 2009; ... Even as the downturn bites there are a number of businesses that are doing a roaring trade. Domino's Pizza, for example, has benefitted from an increase in people ordering takeaways rather than visiting restaurants. Pawnbrokers, for different reasons, are also profiting--the UK s H&T ...
Collectors' focus: Faberge: competition between traditional and new collectors is adding drama to this enviably robust market.
May 01, 2009; ... For over 100 years the name of Faberge has reigned supreme as a byword for luxury and exquisite craftsmanship. At its peak, the world's largest goldsmith employed over 500 staff--300 were craftsmen--with branches in St Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, Kiev and London. Best known today for ...
Around the galleries: historic rings make a fine exhibition in London and the Carre Rive Gauche fair opens in Paris.(London, England; Paris, France)(Calendar)
May 01, 2009; ... A gem of an exhibition awaits collectors of jewellery this May. Wartski, London, and Les Enluminures, Paris, are teaming up for a selling exhibition at Wartski of a private collection of 35 rings collected over 20 years ago by the owner of Les Enluminures, Sandra Hindman (Fig. 1). Dating ...
Around the galleries: an exhibition of Indian paintings belonging to the dealer-collector Subhash Kapoor is a rare treat.
May 01, 2009; ... The exquisite paintings commissioned by rulers and their courtiers at the exotic courts of India during the 16th to 19th centuries are rarely seen in public. Most museums that possess them display just a few in a back room that is hard to find. They were created to be kept wrapped up, ...
Masters of majolica: a remarkably beautiful exhibition in Arezzo sets the achievements of the Della Robbias in their artistic context.(EXHIBITIONS)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] According to Giorgio Vasari, money was one of the main motives that prompted Luca della Robbia in the mid 15th century to develop the glazed terracotta technique that brought him and his family wide renown. A talented sculptor of marble, who carved one of the ...
A dynastic enterprise: two exhibitions, in Dusseldorf and Munich, on the art collections of Johann Wilhelm, elector palatine from 1690 to 1716, make a major contribution to the study of baroque patronage and collecting.(EXHIBITIONS)(Dusseldorf and Munich, Germany)
May 01, 2009; ... It is a truism to note that, uniquely among European state collections, the origins of the National Gallery of London lay in an urge for a national institution, not in a donation, voluntary or forced, from a ruling dynasty. The Alte Pinakothek of Munich owes its existence to the collecting ...
The eternal mannequin: without Chirico, surrealism would have been very different, but he rapidly converted an imaginative breakthrough into cliche.(EXHIBITIONS)(Giorgio de Chirico)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] In the history of 20th-century art, Giorgio de Chirico is a case apart. Associated with Apollinaire after his arrival in Paris in 1911, his metaphysical art, influenced by Arnold Brcklin and by the philosophy of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, gained him ...
The mode of seduction: the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology has staged an exhibition on fashion as seduction that excites the intelligence just as much as the senses.
May 01, 2009; ... To seduce is to entice, to attract, to lure away. The etymology of this sonorous word is to be found in the Latin seducere--to lead apart--but seduction itself is as old as mankind. In representations of 'The Temptation of Adam', Eve's offering of an apple was an act of seduction whose ...
Wallinger's mind-map: an enthralling exhibition probes the blurred boundary between fact and fiction.(EXHIBITIONS)(Mark Wallinger)
May 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Russian Linesman' is a three-dimensional mind-map, at the centre of which lies Mark Wallinger's preoccupation with frontiers, borders and thresholds. Ranging from an early Roman double-headed herm to images of Apollo 17 and the Martian landscape via Albrecht ...
Furniture close up: Adam Bowett salutes the detailed scholarship of the Metropolitan Museum's latest catalogue of its American furniture, a monument to the connoisseurship of 20th-century collectors.(American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... North American museum collection catalogues are habitually thorough, detailed, meticulously researched and beautifully produced, and the latest offering, on early American furniture in the Metropolitan Museum, is no exception. Frances Safford's book is the first in a chronological series ...
Sporting a passion: a comprehensive dictionary of animal and sporting artists in America records the pastimes of a way of life that has changed little since the 19th century.(BOOKS)(Animal and Sporting Artists in America)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... This weighty volume is a labour of love--the love of a Virginia sportsman for his animals and his countryside. It documents what might be accounted an obsession, but one, he would insist, that springs logically, even inevitably, from the life of a certain class of American in the 20th ...
Directory of international auctioneers of art & antiques.(Directory)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS OF ART & ANTIQUES England BONHAMS 101 NEW BOND STREET, www.bonhams.com LONDON W1S 1SR Tel. 020 7629 6602 KNIGHTSBRIDGE, MONTPELIERFax 020 7393 3905 ...
Directory of British art & antique dealers.(Directory)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF BRITISH ART & ANTIQUE DEALERS Antiquities and Ethnographica Dealers in Greater London FINCH & CO Tel. 020 7413 9937 SUITE 744, 2 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, Mobile 07768 236921/07836 684133 LONDON SW7 3DQ. ...
Directory of international art & antiques dealers.(Directory)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ART & ANTIQUE DEALERS Catalonia--Spain DOLORS JUNYENT GALERIA D'ART Fax +34 93 487 63 51 ARAGO, 268 (PG. DE GRACIA--RBLA. Tel. +34 93 215 63 93 CATALUNYA), 08007 BARCELONA ...
Directory of international shippers of art & antiques.(Directory)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL SHIPPERS OF ART & ANTIQUES CADOGAN TATE Tel. London + 44 (0)20 7819 6-12 PONTON ROAD, NINE ELMS, 6600, Paris +33 (0)1 48 20 85 60 LONDON SW8 5BA www.cadogantate.com ...
Directory of conservators & restorers of art & antiques.(Directory)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF CONSERVATORS C9'- RESTORERS OF ART er ANTIQUES CLARE FINN & CO. LTD. Fax: 020 7937 4198 38 CORNWALL GARDENS,Tel. 020 7937 1895 LONDON SW7 4AA Experienced Oil Paintings' Conservator/Restorers, Accredited ...
Directory of international picture framers.(Directory)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL PICTURE FRAMERS JOHN DAVIES FRAMING LTD.Fax: 020 7976 1518 8 BURY STREET, ST JAMES'S, Tel. 020 7930 7977 LONDON SW1Y 6ABjdframing@btconnect.com ...
Directory of specialist consultants and valuers.(Directory)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF SPECIALIST CONSULTANTS AND VALUERS GURR JOHNS LTD Fax: 020 7930 1068 16 PALL MALL, LONDON SWlY 5NB Tel. 020 7839 4747 www.gurrjohns.com ...
Directory of international art lighting consultants.(Directory)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... <Pre> DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ART LIGHTING CONSULTANTS SANDRA LIOTUS LIGHTING Tel. 001 401 845 9236 DESIGN, LLC sandraliotus@cox.net JOHN DAVIS HOUSE ...
A twist in the tale: in December 1991 Sally Richardson interviewed the collector, novelist and MP Jeffrey Archer. Archer's switchback political career ended in July 2001, when he was imprisoned for committing perjury in the libel trial referred to here.(FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES)(Minister of Parliament)(Interview)(Reprint)
May 01, 2009; ... For Jeffrey Archer, buying art is an insatiable passion. Having built up a collection of lesser works by Impressionists, plus a handsome display by great names of the 20th century, his appetite has recently expanded to the tikes of Bellini and Tiepolo. The fact that these artists are ...