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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3:42pm
Yesterday’s was a rare fine summery evening and a pleasant one to walk through the courtyard of Somerset House, home of the Courtauld Collection. I told Nicola, my drinks companion earlier in the day that I was going along to visit ‘The Courtauld Cézannes’. She was not particularly impressed and rolled her eyes sighing, ‘All those wretched oranges’. (I think she was subjected to a roomful of still lifes at a mid-90s Cézanne retrospective somewhere.) It’s safe to say she’s not a fan. Last night, however, I found that I was.
In the upstairs galleries were the exhilarating blues...
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Wednesday, 25th June 2008
4:37pm
Exhibitions about clothing and fashion provide critics with one mighty visual-arts axe to grind. Pull out the frocks and museums are immediately subject to charges of dumbing down. The public, however, love ’em. The Victoria and Albert Museum is currently showing ‘The Story of The Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection’ of dresses worn by the Motown trio and last year’s exhibition of Aussie pop chanteuse Kylie Minogue was a tremendous sell-out show but, like its predecessors – including a Vivienne Westwood retrospective attracting the likes of Kate Moss and Sadie Frost – was subject to sneers.
Although...
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11:57am
It was announced yesterday that installations by Antony Gormley and Yinka Shonibare are the next projects to grace the fourth plinth, replacing Thomas Schutte’s neon coloured Model for a Hotel 2007. Gormley’s proposal, entitled One and Other, will see the plinth occupied by members of the public for one hour at a time over 100 consecutive days, enabling some 2,400 volunteers to participate. This human installation will be followed by Shonibare’s scale replica of Nelson’s ship, HMS Victory, with sails made from African textiles bought in London's Brixton market. The model ship will sit inside a giant glass bottle, gleaming...
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5:23pm
A quietly pleasing intervention occurred on my journey to work this morning, courtesy of London Transport’s Art on the Underground scheme that has commissioned new works by Anna Barriball, on display this week around the tube network. For nestled among the array of glossy but uninspiring adverts for Magnum ice cream and the latest crime novel, is Barriball’s series of posters, wryly entitled – given the context – About 60 miles of beautiful views.
The posters consist of short phrases found by the artist on the back of photographs in a discarded album in a junk shop, presented in...
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Moma's show on the impact of new media in the 1960s and 1970s recalls an idealistic age, before art aspired to control its audience.
The 500th anniversary of Palladio's birth is rightly being celebrated, but his influence on architects has in many ways been pernicious.
The National Galleries in Edinburgh and London and the National Trust have formidable fund-raising tasks in hand, but the targets would be even higher were it not for Britain's tax laws – which could be about to get better.
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