CONTENTS November 2010
EDITORIAL
From the archives
Just as the reputation of Dutch genre painter Gabriel Metsu has varied considerably, so have approaches to art history, as an article in the February 1926 issue of Apollo shows.
EDITORIAL
The giving game...
On their way into this year’s Frieze Art Fair visitors were asked to sign a petition. ‘Cut us, don’t kill us,’ it read.
CONTEMPORARY ART
The Art Market: Market Preview
CONTEMPORARY ART
The Art Market: Market Review
W ill the 25th Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris (15–22 September) prove a watershed? Some difficult decisions need to be taken to ensure the future and determine the character of this once peerless fair.
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
An exhibition by modern neo-classical sculptor Alexander Stoddart is reason enough to visit the beleaguered Scottish town of Paisley, but its architectural treasures make the visit even more worthwhile.
Winter 2010 Art Fairs: Beach Ready
With galleries returning to the fair en masse and a strong Latin American interest, the ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach flags up a recovering economy and the promise of high-quality presentations
Collectors’ Focus: Modern British Sculpture
Following a recent spate of major exhibitions on the subject, the market for modern British sculpture is enjoying a renaissance, with less well-known names available at very good prices.
Around the galleries
A host of art and antiques fairs – in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the UK – promises a busy November for collectors.
The Art Market: Market Review
W ill the 25th Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris (15–22 September) prove a watershed? Some difficult decisions need to be taken to ensure the future and determine the character of this once peerless fair.
Winter 2010 Art Fairs: Beach Ready
With galleries returning to the fair en masse and a strong Latin American interest, the ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach flags up a recovering economy and the promise of high-quality presentations
Drawn to Line
Louis-Antoine Prat, a selection of whose world-renowned collection of drawings is currently on show in Sydney, is a highly literate and scholarly collector with a fiercely independent spirit
Figuring it out
From the monumental Angel of the North to the minuscule figures of Field, British sculptor Antony Gormley’s numerous takes on the human form are created for the artist and the public alike to puzzle over. And his latest incarnation of Horizon Field is no different…
A Subtle Luxury
Interior designer Jean-Michel Frank created a dramatic, pared back aesthetic to achieve the impression of emptiness and luxury – a style that found favour among his Parisian avant-garde peers and the interwar generation alike
The House of Illusion
The Fetta di Polenta in Turin, designed by Alessandro Antonelli during the 19th century, is an astonishing seven-storey building that at its narrowest point measures just 54 centimetres. Its gallerist owner, Franco Noero, talks to Apollo about how the remarkable spaces within generate ideas and artistic responses
Buying Bonaparte
The story of the British government’s 1816 purchase of Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, a colossal statue by Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova, has never been told before now – a tale of complex negotiations, cultural politics and intrigue…
Thinking in Colour
Italian designer and architect Ettore Sottsass was a man of contradictions – a postmodernist with a romantic sensibility and a creator of industrial design with a strong passion for the natural world – as this evocative account reveals
Architecture
An exhibition by modern neo-classical sculptor Alexander Stoddart is reason enough to visit the beleaguered Scottish town of Paisley, but its architectural treasures make the visit even more worthwhile.
Motion capture
Eadweard Muybridge’s Fascinating Photographic Experiments Had A Dark Side, Writes Sue Hubbard
Scotland and beyond
Peyton Skipwith Celebrates The Wide-ranging Vision Of The 19th-century Glasgow Boys
A fearsome imagination
Timothy J. Standring Revels In The Haunting Spectre Of Italian Baroque Painter Salvator Rosa
Off The Shelf
Apollo’s selection of recently published books on art, architecture and the history of collecting
A right royal treasure trove
Nearly 1,000 Possessions Of The Danish-Norwegian Crown Are Catalogued In This Monumental Tome, Finds Philippa Glanville