12:54pm
Apollo Muse invited you to submit your reviews of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Below is a review of the show, written by Tom Gayford, who visited the RA after a certain accident hit the headlines...
If you’re desperate to escape the summer heat, it might be worth your while to drop into the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition (open until the 17th of August) – but watch your step. Last Saturday a visitor slipped and knocked over a nine-foot tall sculpture by Tatiana Echeverri, leaving it in fragments on the floor.
Not all of the exhibits are so fragile, however,...
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11:00am
Anyone wishing to idle away an hour or so would do well to visit Tate Britain’s current exhibition ‘Drawn from the Collection’ which gives an airing to a small selection of the thousands of drawings that Tate holds as part of the national collections of prints and drawings.
The show clearly aims to be a gentle crowd pleaser with themes such as ‘faces’ and ‘creatures’ (as opposed to ‘portraits’ or ‘anatomy’) and is very much about ticking the commendable box of airing works that are rarely or never before exhibited. The strength of the exhibition lies not just in seeing...
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3:51pm
There is still time to catch a small but fascinating exhibition at the Wellcome Collection – ‘From Atoms to Patterns’ runs until 10 August and tells the story of ‘Crystal structure designs from the 1951 Festival of Britain’. I’ll admit that it’s a highly specific-sounding title, but will make a curious trip down memory lane for anyone who can remember their parents’ or grandparents’ home furnishings, or those they aspired to, at least.
The focus of the show is the scientific breakthroughs of the 1950s and their use in domestic design. I had always assumed that ’50s dresses had...
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1:11pm
A small press soirée at London’s National Gallery last night provided further opportunity to view its current exhibition ‘Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist Painters 1891-1910’, which opened last month. It’s an interesting show on several counts, principally because it offers the chance to view an art movement that failed to make much international impact but did, however, pave the way for the bold brilliance of Italian Futurism.
Despite being a loose-knit group of northern Italian painters, the Divisionists were united by one big idea: the treatment of light. This was inspired by the works of French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul...
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11:22am
The Royal Academy, London, gathered members of the press on Friday to announce its forthcoming October blockbuster exhibition ‘Byzantium’ with which it aims to rescue the empire from the unpopularity in which it has languished since the days when Voltaire declared it ‘a disgrace to the human mind.’ Some 300 objects – icons, silver and gold metalwork, ivories and enamels – on loan from 100 different organisations, will highlight the splendours of the empire that spanned Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, Ukraine, Syria and Egypt for over 1,000 years until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks.
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12:00am
This is an extract from an Apollo interview with a well-known collector and art-world figure. A copy of our 2007 Book of the Year, James Stourton's Great Collectors of Our Time (Scala) will be won by the first reader to identify the interviewee. For your chance to win, email your answer to offers@apollomag.com using 'Collectors' as the subject of your email. (A clue is at the bottom of the extract).
I was born in the Home Counties, in Kent. As I grew up I was strongly influenced by a father who was a literary man but who imbued me with...
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A recent exhibition in Nottingham showcases contemporary artists' exploration of the Communist-era space race.
Cast aside by Modernists for much of the 20th century, Classicism
has a comeback of sorts, with an excellent new book reappraising
architecture partnerships and a recent exhibition at one of the very
institutions that so derided the style.
