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Rebirth of a nation: the Metropolitan's American Wing: this month the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, unveils the transformation of its American Wing, which includes a new presentation of 12 of its period rooms. Philippa Glanville explains the curat
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ever since it opened in 1924, the American Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,...
Apollo, 05/01/09 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Book of the year: Arthur MacGregor's account of the origin of public museums is a triumph
'Acukow sings by Clockwork, a Horseman rids, a Ship sails, an Old Woman walks, a Centaur runs and shoots, a Crab creeps upon a Table so wel as to...
Apollo, 12/01/08 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Echoes of the orient: Philippa Glanville visits Brighton for the first exhibition in over 70 years to chart Britain's fascination with Chinese art and design
The setting for this exuberant show surveying four centuries of the English flirtation with the exotic East is Brighton Pavilion's Indian stables,...
Apollo, 10/01/08 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Glory to God in silver: Philippa Glanville welcomes the Goldsmiths' Company's ambitious, vibrant survey of the plate used by British churches
This summer Philip Hardwick, the architect of Goldsmiths' Hall in the 1830s, would not recognise his 40-foot-long White and Gold Drawing Room....
Apollo, 07/01/08 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Glittering stars: This comprehensive overview of Scottish silver, from medieval times to striking contemporary commissions, celebrates a proud and thriving tradition
Silver has had many roles in the past 500 years, from entertaining to commemoration, from race prizes to communion chalices. 'Silver: Made in...
Apollo, 04/01/08 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Enthroned in silver: silver furniture created for baroque courts makes a dazzling exhibition at Versailles
Echoing, vast, virtually bare of furniture, the state apartments at Versailles are normally an oppressive experience. But this winter these...
Apollo, 02/01/08 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Women seize the easels: the emergence of professional female artists in Italy is enthrallingly explored in an exhibition in Washington, DC
'Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque', National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 16 March-15 July (+1 202 783 5000)....
Apollo, 07/01/07 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Princely magnificence in Dresden: Philippa Glanville celebrates the newly reopened Historic Green Vaults in Dresden's Royal Palace, a spectacular restoration that has brought back to life one of the greatest artistic losses suffered in World War II
After more than a decade of focused, costly and highly specialised restoration, the Old or Historic Green Vaults of Saxony" reopened in the Royal...
Apollo, 12/01/06 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Yale shows its mettle: Philippa Glanville applauds a scholarly exhibition of silver from the Kremlin, which includes gifts to the Tsars from 17th-century English monarchs and merchants
In the calm, contemporary atmosphere of the Yale Center for British Art, robust Jacobean standing cups and salts selected from the unique holdings...
Apollo, 09/01/06 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication -
Sweetened by silver gifts: Philippa Glanville is impressed by new discoveries at an exhibition of work by goldsmiths in the Hague, which illuminates the role played by silver in court life and diplomacy in both the Netherlands and England
For historians of baroque Europe concerned with court culture, this large and ambitious exhibition, which fills more than seven rooms at the...
Apollo, 01/01/06 by Philippa Glanville · More from publication
