CONTENTS September 2010
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture - Bring Back the Railings
As part of a metal salvage drive for munitions in World War II, many of the UK’s parks and squares lost their iron railings. With the National Gallery now victim to a constant stream of commercial events in its environs, isn’t it time we got them back?
Around the Galleries
Collectors drawn to Paris for the biennale are spoilt for choice by the wealth of accompanying shows and events
Collectors' Focus
The market for gold-ground Italian painting remains strong, with high-quality works of good provenance and great beauty to be found at the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris this month.
Market Review
June saw a spectacular Modigliani sale and a spate of new and rebranded London art fairs
Bronzino's Drawings: Authorship and Preservation
The varied physical condition of Agnolo Bronzino’s drawings, recently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, plays a crucial role in the question of authorship, yet is often overlooked in the study of early Italian art
Houses of Light
Set in the natural beauty of Los Angeles countryside, the artists Roy Dowell and Lari Pittman have made their home in Richard Neutra’s Serulnic House and developed a new house on the same site. Apollo caught up with them to find out how their modernist homes inform their lives
Remarkable and Curious
The quantity and superb quality of 18th-century French furniture in English collections is testament to the British passion for their neighbours’ designs, yet the presence of these works is little known in the UK or abroad
Aspiring to the Heavens
Cy Twombly has created a huge, evocative painting for the ceiling of the Louvre’s Salle des Bronze. It is the latest in a long line of sky depictions on ceilings, and marks a radical departure for the artist better known for his abstract, graffiti-style scribbles
Objects of Desire
Sèvres’ lesser-known output of veilleuses, exquisite 18th-century nightlights or perfume burners, reflect in miniature the contemporary fashions and collectors’ interests of the time, including the depiction of drunken men in the style of Teniers the Younger
The Artist as Collector
Tom Phillips’ collection of African goldweights – miniature sculptures from West Africa – is probably the finest in private hands. He talks to Apollo about why these objects echo his love of imaginative territory
A Taste for History
The interior designer Jacques Garcia, currently refurbishing the 17th- and 18th-century period rooms at the Louvre, shares his obsessive passion for collecting with Apollo
L’art en Paris
The grand spectacle of the 25th Biennale des Antiquaires, the French capital’s international art and antiques fair, will be joined by more gallery shows and satellite events than ever
A Language All his Own
Peerless photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has become a master of light and colour, writes Ben Luke
The Italian Dream
Whether they made it there or not, Italy was highly influential for the pre-Raphaelites, writes Simon Poe
Out of Africa
How much light does an exhibition of modernist photographs and African sculpture shed on the subject, asks Yonna Yappou
A Little Patch of London
G.F. Watts’s relationship with Kensington reveals much about this Victorian painter, writes SImon Poe
A Passion for Nature
Julian Treuherz celebrates a reappraisal of pre-Raphaelite painter John Brett, who delighted in coastal landscape
Off the Shelf
Apollo’s selection of recently published books on art, architecture and the history of collecting