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The Acquisitive Gene
Christian Levett’s fanaticism for collecting antiquities has led to him opening a museum for his collection in the South of France. He spoke to Apollo about his collecting and the museum’s mission to reveal the thread of Classicism in Western art
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The Mythology of Desire
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston explores the themes of beauty, love and sexual desire in the ancient world. Many of these classical pieces, with their often overt erotic depictions of playful gods, were collected by the philanthropic gentleman scholar Edward Perry Warren
Ariadne Awakened
‘Modern Antiquity’, an exhibition originally at the Getty Villa and opening this month at the Musée Picasso in Antibes, explores the multi-faceted relationship between Modernism and antiquity – and the effect that this has on how we view ancient art
Art’s Alchemist
Anselm Kiefer is inspired by the transformative possibilities of ruins and ex-industrial spaces, in part derived from his childhood in post-war Germany. He talks to Apollo about the ideas that have driven him to create paintings that mutate through alchemy
The Tent in the Park
The disused Commonwealth Institute building in London is a remarkable landmark of post-war British architecture. Now, its soaring internal spaces are being reconfigured to house the relocation of the Design Museum in 2014, but will the structure finally be fit for purpose?
