Most Recent Articles from Apollo

• Art business: Christie's and Sotheby's have announced their results for the first half of 2009. Record prices are still being set, so why are the overall figures so dire? 

  If you want a clear idea of the schizophrenic nature of the art market so far this year--and the contrasting attitudes of buyers and sellers--you...

  10/01/09 by Ben Wright · More from publication

• In search of Eileen Gray: towards the end of her life the designer Eileen Gray wrote that although she had spent her entire career in France she thought of herself as essentially an expatriate Irishwoman. Jennifer Goff, curator of the Eileen Gray collecti 

  [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] At the sale in February of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge collection, Eileen Gray's 'Dragon' chair made a...

  09/01/09 by Jennifer Goff · More from publication

• Bigwigs & blackguards: a new history of the National Gallery, London, by a former director tackles the sensitive question of the often tense relationship between its trustees and director 

  In 1854 the Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen offered the newly created post of director of the National Gallery, London, to the Scottish collector and...

  09/01/09 by Michael Hall · More from publication

• Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for September 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Raven Row, London, is staging 'Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium' from 4 September to 1 November. The exhibition,...

  09/01/09 · More from publication

• Letter: the opening in June of the Acropolis Museum in Athens has rekindled the quarrel over the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum. Guy Weill Goudchaux—who is neither British nor Greek—invites us to consider some points 

  It is possible to imagine circumstances in which the Greek demand that the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum should be returned to Athens...

  09/01/09 by Guy Weill Goudchaux · More from publication

• Tribal triumph: Udo Horstmann and his wife, Wally, have filled their home in Switzerland with one of the world's greatest private collections of tribal art. As Mr Horstmann explains to Louise Nicholson, it is 'an expedition into another world' 

  [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] It is a good thing that Udo Horstmann and his wife, Wally, live in a clean-lined modern house. For they keep their collection...

  09/01/09 by Louise Nicholson · More from publication

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