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First Look: Photorealism
Katie Hall introduces ‘Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealism’ at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
First Look: Thomas Rowlandson
Kate Heard introduces ‘High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson’ at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh
First Look: Turner and the Sea
Christine Riding, Senior Curator of Arts at the Royal Museums Greenwich, introduces ‘Turner and the Sea’
First Look: Drawing Time, Reading Time
Claire Gilman introduces ‘Drawing Time, Reading Time’ at the Drawing Center in New York
First Look: Art Turning Left
Francesco Manacorda introduces ‘Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making’ at Tate Liverpool
First Look: Georgians Revealed
Moira Goff, lead curator of ‘Georgians Revealed’ at the British Library, talks to Apollo
First Look: Nur
Sabiha Al-Khemir, curator of ‘Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World’ at the Focus-Abengoa Foundation in Seville, talks to Apollo
First Look: Daumier
Catherine Lampert, curator of ‘Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, talks to Apollo
First Look: Malevich
Geurt Imanse and Bart Rutten, curators of ‘Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde’ at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, talk to Apollo
First Look: Eileen Gray
Cloé Pitiot, co-curator of ‘Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter’ at IMMA, speaks to Apollo about the inspiration she has drawn from the artist
First Look: Facing the Modern
Gemma Blackshaw, guest curator of ‘Facing the Modern: the Portrait in Vienna 1900’ at the National Gallery in London, speaks to Apollo
First Look: Shunga
Tim Clark, curator of ‘Shunga: Sex and Pleasure’ at the British Museum, speaks to Apollo
First Look: Magritte at MoMA
Anne Umland, curator of ‘Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938’ at MoMA speaks to Apollo
First Look: Canterbury and St Albans
Kristen Collins and Jeffrey Weaver introduce an exhibition of English Romanesque art which opens at the Getty on Friday
First Look: Masterpieces at the Sainsbury Centre
Curator Ian Collins introduces ‘Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia’, which opens on Saturday
First Look: Bacon/Moore at the Ashmolean
Curator Martin Harrison speaks to Apollo about ‘Flesh and Bone’, which opens on Thursday
First Look: ‘Victoriana’ at the Guildhall
In this ongoing series, Apollo previews a range of international exhibitions and hears from their curators
Sotheby’s earnings plummet by 88 per cent in first half of year
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
‘I know exactly what I am looking for’ – Helen Hamlyn on collecting with purpose
The philanthropist’s pursuits range from collecting Asian art to restoring ruined buildings
The Italian wines that look as good as they taste
A series of artist-designed bottles produced by an innovative Tuscan winery wouldn’t be out of place in a gallery
The week in art news – the Met hires its first head of provenance
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
A New Look at Van Eyck: Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928–1978)
The Getty Center makes a case for the critic and photographer’s important role in the development of art history in his home country
The pyramids at Giza looked very different when they were first built
The Egyptian pyramids were originally covered in smooth white limestone – as a casing stone now in Scotland shows