International Art: Apollo Magazine – April 2024
Category Archives: Exhibitions
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
The Week In Art Podcast (March 8, 2024): To coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, the South London Gallery is opening the exhibition Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest.
Activism and photography have long gone hand in hand but this collaborative exhibition, organised with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), attempts to capture a new chapter in this distinguished history, with a particular focus on feminism across the world. We talk to Sarah Allen, the head of programme at the South London Gallery, and Fiona Rogers, the V&A’s Parasol Foundation curator of women in photography, about the show. The financier, philanthropist, collector and leader of cultural organisations Jacob Rothschild died last week at the age of 87.
We talk to Anna Somers Cocks, the founder of The Art Newspaper, who interviewed Lord Rothschild on numerous occasions, about his impact on the visual arts and heritage. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Adelphi, made in 1967 by Robert Ryman. It is one of around 50 pieces by Ryman in the exhibition The Act of Looking, which opened this week at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. Guillaume Fabius, the co-curator of the show, joins us to discuss the painting.
Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, South London Gallery, London, 8 March-9 June.
Robert Ryman: The Act of Looking, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, until 1 July.
Art Exhibitions: ‘Matthew Wong & Vincent Van Gogh – Painting As A Last Resort’
The exhibition ‘Matthew Wong l Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort’ invites you to discover more about Wong’s work and his artistic connection with Van Gogh. On view at the Van Gogh Museum from 1 March until 1 September 2024.
International Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2024
In the studio with… Manuel Mathieu
The Haitian-Canadian artist surrounds himself with unlikely objects to spark his imagination, books about drawing, and about 25 different types of tea
The clockwork marvels that tell a tale of two empires
These timepieces are fluttering, chiming embodiments of how Britain and China traded with each other in the 18th and 19th centuries
Reel life – how Zineb Sedira found herself through film
At the Whitechapel Gallery, the French-Algerian unspools personal and political histories through imitation sets and empty stages
International Art: Apollo Magazine – February 2024
• Holidaying with the Habsburgs
• An interview with Julie Mehretu
• The crisis in Italian museums
• Howard Hodgkin’s Indian miniatures
Plus: Slim pickings for foodies on Valentine’s Day, Parma’s monumental museum complex, and – and reviews of Impressionists on paper, experimental art in the Eastern bloc, and Africa and Byzantium at the Met
Exhibitions: ‘New Terrains- Native American Art’ (2024)
The exhibition provides context for the evolution of contemporary Native art, including the influence of modernism, post-war, and pop art.
New Terrains: Contemporary Native American Art New York Exhibition 5–23 January
Join the pair as they reveal works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder (Luiseño), Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation), and more.
Art Museum Exhibitions: ‘Nicolas de Staël’ In Paris
Twenty years after the one organised by the Centre Pompidou in 2003, this exhibition offers a fresh look at the artist’s work, drawing on more recent thematic exhibitions that have highlighted certain little-known aspects of his career (Antibes in 2014, Le Havre in 2014, Aix-en-Provence in 2018).
International Art: Apollo Magazine – January 2024
Breath of fresh air – Gerhard Richter in the Alps
Three exhibitions in the Engadin Valley explore how the Swiss mountains have inspired some of the painter’s most playful work
Remembering the festive geese of Christmas past
The festive bird has often been served up by artists and writers including J.M.W. Turner and Charles Dickens
Exhibits: ‘Medieval Money, Merchants, And Morality’ At The Morgan Library NYC
“Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality” is open to the public November 10, 2023 through March 10, 2024.
Trade was conducted on an unprecedented scale, banks were established, and coinage proliferated like never before. The widespread use of money in everyday life transformed every aspect of European society, including its values and culture. Bringing together some of the most acclaimed manuscripts in the Morgan’s collection and other exceptional objects including a renaissance purse, a brass alms box, and a hoard of coins, this exhibition will explore the fate of the avaricious, attitudes towards the poor, contentious lending practices, and money management.
The famous Hours of Catherine of Cleves, the Hours of Henry VIII, and the Prayer Book of Queen Claude de France will be presented from a decidedly new angle, combining economic and art history to consider the early history of capitalism and the crisis in values that it sparked. These will feature alongside lesser known treasures, including an Italian account book in its original binding and a stunning leaf from a register of creditors made in Bologna, Italy, in 1394–95. As people today reflect on fluctuating markets, disparities in wealth, personal values, and morality, the themes addressed in this exhibition are as relevant as ever.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
The Week In Art Podcast (December 8, 2023): This week: the final big art market event of the year, Art Basel in Miami Beach. The Art Newspaper’s associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, talks to our acting art market editor, Tim Schneider, in Miami about the fair, as tensions rise ahead of the pivotal 2024 US election.
In Athens, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, or EMST, is next week opening a months-long programme which will end up with the entire museum filled with women artists. We talk to EMST’s director, Katerina Gregos, about the programme, called What if Women Ruled the World? And this episode’s Work of the Week is two objects: the 15th-century Florentine artist Francesco Pesellino’s panels telling the story of David and Goliath, made for a luxurious cassone or chest for the Medici family.
The panels belong to the National Gallery in London and have just been restored for a new exhibition there, Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed. We talk to Jill Dunkerton, who did the restoration, about these extraordinary paintings.
Art Basel in Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center, until Sunday, 10 December.
What if Women Ruled the World? begins at EMST, Athens, on 14 December.Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed, National Gallery, London, until 10 March 2024.
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