Article Results (Showing 1 - 10 of 128) RSS Alert
-
More on Moffat: a rare exhibition of Curtis Moffat's remarkable interwar modernist photographs deserves to prompt further research into the career of this Anglo-American friend of Man Ray
You should not feel guilty that you have not heard of Curtis Moffat. There are no modern books on him. The purpose of the V&A's exhibition on this...
Apollo, 02/01/08 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
In search of perfection
The 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792) gave his name to the snack of meat encased between two slabs of bread. The story goes that it was designed so...
Spectator, The, 09/15/07 by Spanier, Samson · More from publication -
Collectors focus: Scottish painting: there is huge international demand for Colourists and other 20th-century artists, but Old Masters and the Glasgow Boys can be bargains
The market for Scottish paintings is in rude health if the Scottish Colourists are anything to go by. They have shot up in value over the past four...
Apollo, 07/01/07 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
2007 Ad
SKULLING ON THE WATER What is happening when your admiration of the Grand Canal--seemingly unchanged since Canaletto's sun-kissed depictions of...
Apollo, 07/01/07 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
20th-century American painting: stratospheric prices for Warhol and the abstract expressionists are being matched across an ever-more diverse market
Until recently, it was a rule in the market for 20th-century American painting that only two areas commanded significant prices: abstract...
Apollo, 05/01/07 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
Blue-sky thinking: Yves Klein emerges as much more than a painter in a wide-ranging exhibition in Paris and Vienna
'Void' (vibe in French) is the word that Klein used constantly to describe what he wanted to apprehend through his art, often supplementing it with...
Apollo, 05/01/07 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
Maastricht news: the world's biggest art fair was once again the stage for major discoveries, and the presence of auction-houses added a new frisson
This year's European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht (9 to 18 March) was a salutary rebuttal of the often-heard claim that there are no more...
Apollo, 04/01/07 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
20th century AD
This is an exciting time to collect or sell jewellery, because, after a 50-year hiatus, a new jeweller who is a worthy inheritor of the...
Apollo, 02/01/07 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
London news: the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade forms an opportunity for exhibitions of art old and new throughout the capital
London's museums are celebrating this year the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, when Parliament passed on 27...
Apollo, 01/01/07 by Samson Spanier · More from publication -
Personality of the Ernst van de Wetering, Director of the Rembrandt Research Project: Ernst van de Wetering has dedicated almost 40 years to the Rembrandt Research Project in Amsterdam. He talks to Samson Spanier about the challenges of attribution, the d
'I do not feel myself to be an art historian', says 68-year-old Ernst van de Wetering, sitting at a card table in Amsterdam. This is a surprising...
Apollo, 12/01/06 by Samson Spanier · More from publication
