Wednesday, 1st February 2012
Nicola McCartney 4:21pm
A few weeks ago I attended an interesting talk about the overlooked artist Edward Burra (1905-76) at London Art Fair. Apollo’s Editor, Oscar Humphries, chaired the discussion around Burra’s biography, his paintings’ market value and position within modern British art. The panel included art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon and Simon Martin, the curator of Burra’s retrospective currently held at Pallant House (until 19 February 2012). What I learned, is that Burra’s bright and primitive watercolours were both inhibited and aided by his life-long suffering with anemia and rheumatic fever – the disability meant that he was better apt at dealing with...
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Monday, 31st October 2011
5:04pm
Two Temple Place is a neo gothic architectural gem hidden along London’s embankment, originally built for William Waldorf Astor in 1895. The space, with the help of The Bulldog Trust, is now open to the public for free and is to house a series of exhibitions celebrating publicly owned art from UK regional collections.
The inaugural exhibition is a selection of highlights from the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, which is currently under renovation. ‘William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth’ takes exquisite prints, textiles, stained glass and sketches by Morris and his associates related to his love for literature....
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Monday, 24th October 2011
5:41pm
‘Gerhard Richter: Panorama’ is a major retrospective that groups together significant moments from five decades of, arguably, the most important living artist’s career (b.1932, Deresden).
Coinciding with the Richter’s 80th birthday, ‘Panorama’ presents an overview of the artist’s wide ranging practice and includes many of his most iconic paintings, such as Candle (1982), a figurative representation of the highly charged and symbolic object often portrayed in traditional history paintings, and his abstract squeegee series (1990s), which are bright and almost acidic. Also exhibited are his more experimental works inspired by Duchamp, such as 4 Panes of Glass (1967), and...
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Friday, 21st October 2011
4:26pm
Over the next few months, Galerie Boulakia presents a rare opportunity to see 40 works on paper by Pablo Picasso that he produced throughout his lifetime (1881-1973) and which have been largely unseen to date. This major show also marks Galerie Boulakia’s 40th anniversary.
‘Journey to the End of the Line: 40 Drawings by Picasso’ (until 17 December) hopes to reaffirm drawing as an essential part of the artist's creative practice. Picasso had a complex relationship with the worth of his own sketches; he was an admirer of Ingre’s principle: “First, the drawing; then, afterward only, the colour.” And...
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Monday, 10th October 2011
5:43pm
In it’s fifth year, the Pavilion of Art & Design (PAD) brings together 60 galleries from 11 countries to Berkeley Square, which opens this week from 12–16 October 2011. PAD’s rigorous selection process means that only the best dealers from Europe and North America within Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography and Tribal Art from 1860 to today will be exhibiting. Highlights include Luxembourg & Dayan (USA) gallery who have just opened a new London space to coincide with the fair. They will be debuting with works of modern art by Alexander Calder, Steven Parrino and Anselm Kiefer. Their...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
