1:37pm
It has been announced this morning that the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair has been axed. The shock news comes just weeks after the fair celebrated its 75th anniversary at this year's event which ran from 11-17 June. The fair is the oldest and most revered of all the London fairs, receiving royal patronage from HRH Princess Alexandra.
The fair is owned by the Grosvenor House Hotel which hosts the event in its Great Room. According to Apollo sources, the motivation behind the decision to end the fair is due to the economics of staging the event. While the...
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5:06pm
Following initial reports of April's earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy, very little news of the region's progress has been reported overseas. Here we bring you the latest news from our contributor Andrew Hopkins, who teaches at the university in the devastated city of L'Aquila.
It was the Faculty of Arts that was hit hardest when the earthquake struck L’Aquila on 6 April. Following a long-standing policy in cultural politics here in Italy, the plethora of disused monumental buildings that each town abounds in were given over to the Universities to use. While Engineering, Medicine and Biotechnology had customised...
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4:37pm
BANKSY NEW SHOW.
A unique collaboration between Banksy and the Bristol Museum has recently been unveiled. The exhibition, which is Banksy’s first museum show, has already attracted thousands of visitors to his home city. The exhibition is themed according to Banksy’s take on classical art. Banksy, who has exhibited all over the world, is delighted to be holding his first government-funded exhibition, which he describes as, ‘his vision of the future, to which many people will say: “ You should have gone to Specsavers”.’
MOCA
Things are looking up for MOCA, with news that more, quite substantial,...
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4:04pm
Futurism, the Italian modernist movement, was explosive and brilliant – the opening line of the Futurist Manifesto reads ‘We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness’ – and it was also occasionally bonkers. Futurism’s founder, Filippo Marinetti, called for a ban on the consumption of pasta, something unlikely to catch on in his homeland of Italy. The movement is commemorated at the moment by art events marking the 100th anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto.
The Tate’s current show ‘Futurism’ is worth a browse if you’re truly interested in the visual art of this period...
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4:47pm
1. Guggenheim to cut 8% of its jobs:
The Guggenheim Museum in New York has announced that it will cut 25 positions from its full-time staff, following an 18% reduction in the museum’s endowment in the last year. A record high attendance this year has helped to ensure that no exhibitions will be cancelled and the opening hours will remain the same, despite the recession.
- New York Times article
2. Dartmouth receives $50m donation for new Arts Centre:
An anonymous family has given Dartmouth College $50m, the institution’s largest ever donation, towards a new arts centre. The...
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Wednesday, 17th June 2009
2:24pm
In his editorial in the current issue of Apollo Michael Hall discusses the impact of the earthquake that shook the Abruzzo region of Italy on 6 April. Hardest hit was the city of L'Aquila – nearly 300 people were killed and an estimated 30,000 are still camped out in tents on the edge of the city while its devastated infrastructure is investigated. All of L'Aquila's historic buildings have been damaged, for example, S Bernardino, Sta Maria di Collemaggio and the Porta Napoli (to access the editorial, click on the link: editorial).
While the Italian authorities are rightly focusing on...
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4:31pm
1. £7m Picasso sketchbook stolen from Museum in Paris:
A sketchbook containing 32 sketches by the Pablo Picasso was stolen from the Picasso Museum in Paris on Tuesday. It was stored in a glass cabinet that had no alarm system and a flimsy lock, which was broken during the theft. The French press have reported that the museum’s security is notoriously ‘feeble’.
- Independent article
2. Art Basel attracts a more frugal crowd:
While attendance remains high, collectors, both seasoned and new, are spending more carefully at this year’s Art Basel, the world’s leading contemporary art fair. One...
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2:26pm
1. The world's top artists flood to Venice for Biennale:
77 countries will compete for international recognition at the 54th annual Venice Biennale, described by some as the ‘art world’s Olympics’, where countries send their best artists to exhibit in pavilions, one for each nation. Although the price of tickets has been raised from $20 to $25 (£16) this year, attendance is expected to number a respectable 400,000 before the end of the fair in November.
Wall Street Journal article
2. Yale turned a blind eye to ownership of Van Gogh bought from the Soviet Union:
A descendant...
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7:20pm
Charles Saumarez Smith opened the press preview on the forthcoming Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, by announcing that despite the economic climate and its enormous impact on gallery budgets, and in contrast to his experience of state-funded galleries, he had enjoyed the relative freedom of raising funds for a private institution.
Necessary funds for the show, he added, which opens at the end of September, ‘were very nearly there’. Saumarez Smith was also keen to point out that this was a landmark show for the Royal Academy as it will be the first time that a...
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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.
