2:02pm
Two unrelated exhibitions open this week in UK galleries: ‘Stephen Gregory: Down to the Bone’ at London’s Opus Gallery and ‘Unpopular Culture’ at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. Neither features the work of Damien Hirst, yet both have received national press attention because of an apparent link to the Brit artist. Both shows contain skulls – among many other exhibits – which has drawn comparison with Hirst’s $100m diamond encrusted skull entitled For The Love of God. The artist of one show and the curator of the other have felt compelled to justify their use of skulls in the context...
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11:23am
As Londoners began voting in the mayoral elections, the story broke that Rome’s newly-elected right-wing mayor, Gianni Alemmano, pledged to tear down buildings constructed by his left-wing predecessor, including the Ara Pacis Museum designed by US architect and recipient of architecture’s Pritzker Prize, Richard Meier.
The museum, a modernist glass, marble and steel structure housing the Ara Pacis – a 2,000 year-old altar created by the Roman emperor Augustus, met with criticism when it opened in 2006 for its lack of sensitivity to the surrounding architecture and is cited as an example by those who argue that contemporary architecture...
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2:08pm
Jeremy Broadway, an amateur potter based in Dorset, has been convicted of obtaining money for deception after passing off his ceramics as works by Bernard Leach and Lucy Rie, according to a report in today’s Guardian newspaper. As forgers go, Broadway was a big success: Bonham’s sold two pots by him for £10,000 believing they were by Leach and Rie. Buyers in Denmark and the US as well as the UK are thought by police to have fallen for the scam, which was carried on for at least four years. But perhaps those buyers would be well advised to hang...
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12:03pm
As part of this month’s China-themed issue, Apollo interviewed Baron Guy Ullens about his newly-opened Ullens Contemporary Art Centre in Beijing, which houses part of his 1,300-strong collection of contemporary Chinese art. To fund the project, Ullens and his wife sold their collection of 14 Turner watercolours at Sotheby’s in 2007 for a hefty £10.4m – the biggest group to come on the market for 50 years – and thus relinquished a highly covetable collection and market-assured investment.
For private collectors to sell up and change direction is not unprecedented – Charles Saatchi sold his major collection of postwar American...
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12:00am
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Email your answers to offers@apollomag.com and we'll announce the winner the following Friday. Good luck!
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The Lower East Side, once home to immigrants and aspiring artists, is no receiving the uptown treatment.
The National Trust's plans to acquire Seaton Delaval Hall are a tribute to a genius who has inspired writers and artists for centuries.
The Fitzwilliam Museum is celebrating the centenary of the directorship of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell with an exhibition that makes clear that he was in many ways the first modern museum director.
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