Apollo
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Articles in Sept 2004 issue of Apollo
- St Pancras New Church
by Samson Spanier - The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has started work on a new jewellery gallery, that is planned to open in 2008
by Samson Spanier - Van Dyck: a Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
by J. Douglas Stewart - An imperial parure: the Louvre has achieved a remarkable coup by purchasing—for the highest price ever paid by a museum for items of jewellery—the necklace and earrings which formed part of the emerald parure commissioned by Napoleon for the Emp
by Diana Scarisbrick - New life for Edinburgh's temples of art
by Michael Hall - Forget the Jets and the Sharks: gang warfare in this town is between the Mets and the MOMAS. However, a new museum prefers to stay out of the fray
by Louise Nicholson - Captain Cook appears to have died in a less saintly manner at the hands of the Hawaiians than previously thought, as a newly discovered watercolour, to be sold at Christie's, London, on 23 September, reveals
by Samson Spanier - Sam Fogg
by Samson Spanier - A new prize has been created to recognise a life-long contribution to art
by Samson Spanier - Exhibiting at the Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris
- In search of Lebel: two attractive eighteenth-century fetes galantes in the National Gallery of Ireland are signed simply 'J. Lebel', an otherwise unidentified French painter. Martin Eidelberg sifts through the many artists with that surname and proposes
by Martin Eidelberg - Venice in Edinburgh: 'The age of Titian' at the National Gallery of Scotland brings together works from renaissance Venice with a Scottish provenance, and includes several exciting discoveries as well as familiar masterpieces. Caroline Campbell reviews a
by Caroline Campbell - Photographer's Gallery
by Samson Spanier - 10 to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
- Letter from Dublin
by Nigel McKinley - Who was Robert Burnard? Angus Trumble investigates the mystery of a double portrait painted in about 1833 by Robert Burnard, a Cornish painter who emigrated to Australia in 1839. Its remarkable quality has in the past led to an attribution to Agasse—
by Angus Trumble - Sun-ripened succulence: Caroline Worthington reviews the exhibition of Luis Melendez's sensuous still lifes at the National Gallery of Ireland
by Caroline Worthington - City Merchants and the Arts 1670-1720
by Susan Bracken - Fine Art Society
by Samson Spanier - Egypt is preparing to create two new major museums
by Samson Spanier - Sunday in the park: the immense preliminary labour that Seurat devoted to the composition of his monumental paintings is analysed in an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago on the making of his most celebrated painting, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
by David Platzer - Bring back the friezes: Manchester Art Gallery's nineteenth-century interiors, splendidly restored in the 1980s with public money, have been spoilt by the gallery's recent redevelopment
by Gavin Stamp - James Maclaren: Arts and Crafts Pioneer
by Michael Drury - The first significant museum to be created on the basis of politically correct principles of respecting the 'voices' of its subject, the National Museum of the American Indian, opens on 21 September very near the US Capitol on the National Mall, Washingto
by Samson Spanier - The pop star Madonna as she appears in works of art is the subject of a new book, Madonna in Art by Mem Mehmet
by Samson Spanier - Irish sprezzatura: drawing widely on works from private collections, the Hunt Museum's Jack B. Yeats exhibition provides a rare comprehensive overview of Ireland's most celebrated painter
by Deirdre Conroy - The Harrogate Antique Fair: 1st-5th October: Harrogate International Centre, North Yorkshire
- Modern Chinese Brush Painting from a Family Collection
by Harley Preston - Last year's inaugural Frieze Art Fair of contemporary art was so successful that this year's is to be accompanied by three separate, additional fairs
by Samson Spanier - St Peter and the Brancacci chapel
by Margaret Finch - Modern British painting: after decades in which twentieth-century British art was seriously undervalued, prices for paintings are finally beginning to reflect the quality of the works. Why has it taken so long?
by Susannah Woolmer - Patridge Fine Arts
by Samson Spanier - The Spiral unwinds
by Michael Hall - Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture and Domesticity
by Isabelle Anscombe - The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council has announced that works of art worth 13 [pounds sterling] million of tax were acquired for the UK in the 2003-04 tax year, under the 'Acceptance in Lieu' scheme, by which such objects replace inheritance tax
by Samson Spanier - A newly discovered Courbet, a Rothschild writing desk and even ancient Mexican sculpture—the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris is sure to have something for everybody
by Susan Moore - You had to be there: an exhibition of the art of the 1960s at Tate Britain needs more space to do justice to a decade that demands a comprehensive retrospective
by Alan Powers - Ireland's collectors: a historical perspective: collecting in Ireland today is often depicted solely as the pursuit by the nouveaux riches of trophy canvases by Jack B. Yeats. Yet, as William Laffan describes in this detailed analysis of contemporary Iris
by William Laffan - Fleming Collection
by Samson Spanier - The sixteenth-century bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been restored, following its destruction in 1993 during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia
by Samson Spanier - Antiquities took centre stage at auction in London this July. Despite the excitement about the re-discovered Vermeer, the market for Old Masters remained unsettled
by Susan Moore - A shy pioneer: in the April 1981 issue, a new biography of William R. Valentiner by Margaret Sterne prompted Denys Sutton to recall this German-born former director of the Detroit Institute of Arts
by Denys Sutton