Apollo
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Articles in Oct 2006 issue of Apollo
- Where do we come from? Where are we going? The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has reopened after a major renovation and expansion of its collections. Its Chief Curator, Eleanor Jones Harvey, presents a selection of its new acquisitions
by Elanor Jones Harvey - Art in the pulpit: Helen Geddes welcomes a handsomely illustrated account of the three pulpits by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano that are among the great masterpieces of medieval sculpture
by Helen Geddes - What will the rich do next?
by Michael Hall - Dross in the gold: In the March 1991 issue, Christopher Knight published a withering review of the new Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles
by Christopher Knight - The sins of the world: Kenneth Bendiner argues that Robert Rauschenberg's 'combine' work Monogram is not a random assembly but a coherent whole that by alluding to Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat takes as its subject the sacrifice of Christ
by Kenneth Bendiner - A hybrid art: 18th-century European decoration on oriental ceramics has long been sidelined by specialists. This landmark publication should persuade them that they are wrong
by Hilary Young - Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
- At home on Chestnut Street: historic New England has acquired a major new property, the Stephen Phillips House in Salem, Massachusetts. As Brian Pfeiffer explains, from the outside it appears to be a classic Federal-period mansion, but its history is as i
by Brian Pfeiffer - Avant-garde or kitsch? Simon Poe reviews three recent books on Millais and the Pre-Raphaelites, which range from worthy but indigestible to gripping and sumptuous
by Simon Poe - London news: when Robert Tuttle was appointed American ambassador to the Court of St James's in the summer of 2005, he and his wife, Maria, chose to make their official residence, Winfield House, in Regent's Park, London, a setting for modern American art
by Michael Hall - Expanded memories: to mark his major exhibition opening in Japan this month, Bill Viola talks about his philosophy of art
by Martin Gayford - Too much money: Richard L. Feigen, one of America's most celebrated art dealers, argues that the extraordinary amount of money that has flooded into parts of the art market in the past 20 years is responsible for some pernicious developments, from the com
by Richard L. Feigen - Taking the plunge: Nicholas Grimshaw's new spa at bath is a fine building, but its clinical austerity is surely at odds with its purpose
by Gavin Stamp - From America for Florence: Mel Gibson and Sting may not often be associated with Florentine mannerist altarpieces, but, as Larry J. Feinberg explains, the support that they and many other benefactors are giving to a dynamic American organisation, the Frie
by Larry J. Feinberg - 19th-century German art: the scarcity of top-quality paintings by famous names is driving collectors to explore new areas of this buoyant market
by Claudia Herstatt - The upper art side: a rediscovered painting by gravelot stars at New York's international fine art fair, while in Paris Brassai's estate is being auctioned
by Susan Moore - Art dealer, publisher, Jew: Vera Grodzinski welcomes an account of the career of Paul Cassirer, the art dealer and publisher who did so much to introduce French modernism to Germany
by Vera Grodzinski - Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer previews major fall shows in New York, ranging from Wildenstein's splendid benefit show for the New Orleans Museum of Art to new work by Dale Chihuly and Alexander Creswell
by Susannah Woolmer - The Mond Bequest and the Barnes Collection: shall the dead hand rule?
by Selby Whittingham - City of light and mist: an opportunity to see original prints of some of Hoppe's finest London photographs reveals their unexpected depths and subtleties
by Samson Spanier - Art in the machine age: Sheeler's hidden human touch: an exhibition opening this month in Chicago strives to present Charles Sheeler's paintings and photography as a unified aesthetic enterprise
by Yonna Yapou - My review of the new sculpture gallery at the V&A referred to scholarship as it is displayed, not to the museum's very laudable publications
by John Kenworthy-Browne - Pulsating out of the flame: a rich exploration of David Bomberg's art reveals his central role in 20th-century British painting
by Jack Wakefield - Hot baroque: an exhibition at Castel Sant' Angelo on the creation of baroque in 17th-century Rome ranges from architectural drawings and models to an impressive array of devotional and domestic objects
by Andrew Hopkins - The Denver Art museum not just a one-minute 'wow'
by Louise Nicholson - An evangelical architect: a richly illustrated survey of Quinlan Terry's career makes John Martin Robinson wonder why this ardent classicist regards himself as a martyr of modernism when he is such a puritanical modernist himself
by John Martin Robinson - Working holiday: because the drawings he made there are now mostly in poor condition, Constable's visit to the Lake District in 1806 is usually regarded as a dead end in his career. An exhibition at Grasmere suggests otherwise
by Hugh Belsey