Search results for: acquisitions of the month

View of the entrance and façade of the National Gallery of Ireland, 2017, Photo: © National Gallery of Ireland

The National Gallery of Ireland enters a new era

The National Gallery of Ireland’s six-year-long refurbishment gives its Old Masters and Irish paintings a chance to shine

10 Jun 2017
Illustration by Anja Sušanj/Dutch Uncle

Is LA’s art scene growing too quickly?

In the last few years LA’s art scene has grown immeasurably. But as rents rise and experimental spaces get priced out, is LA’s arrival on the international art stage worth it?

29 May 2017

Damien Hirst accused of cultural appropriation

Art News Daily : 11 May

11 May 2017
Ed Sheeran (2016), Colin Davidson. © Colin Davidson

Ed Sheeran has a Van Gogh moment

A portrait of the singer-songwriter has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London

7 May 2017
Big Springs in Yellowstone Park (1872), Thomas Moran. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Ten art events to get to in March

This month’s exhibition highlights include a major Rodin centenary exhibition and the National Gallery’s pairing of Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo

28 Feb 2017
Set of bronzes representing Apsaras and a sitting deity, 12th century, Angkor Wat, installation view, Feuerle Collection, Berlin.. Photo: Thomas Meyer

Why Désiré Feuerle displays his art in a Berlin bunker

Désiré Feuerle talks to Apollo about his collection of Asian and contemporary art and its unusual underground home

22 Feb 2017
Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, in Brussels.

The museum director, the culture minister, and more trouble in Brussels

A long-running institutional feud seems to have moved into more a personal phase

23 Jan 2017
Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller at home in Geneva.

Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller (1930–2016)

Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, the leading tribal art collector and international museum patron, has died at the age of 86

4 Jan 2017
The Gilbert Collection is back on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Gilbert Collection is one of the most exquisite collections ever given to Britain

The Gilberts wanted these astonishing treasures to be shared and enjoyed. Now, the V&A has given them the showcase they deserve

6 Dec 2016

Museum Opening of the Year

Kunstmuseum Basel Basel, Switzerland The Kunstmuseum Basel reopened in spring 2016 following a 12-month refurbishment, and to coincide with the…

3 Nov 2016

Why has it taken early Chinese photography so long to emerge from the shadows?

Stephan Loewentheil has been on a 35-year-long quest to collect and display historic photographs of China

31 Oct 2016

Julia Stoschek on the realities of collecting video art

The German collector, who recently launched a new space in Berlin, talks to Apollo about the challenges and rewards of acquiring a young art form

29 Oct 2016
Does Brussels need the Pompidou?

Why Brussels really needs the Centre Pompidou

The local argument that sparked an international museum partnership between Belgium’s capital and the Centre Pompidou

19 Oct 2016
Pink Drawing Room (known as the Matisse Room), in Sergei Shchukin’s house, the Trubetskoy Palace, Moscow.

The revolutionary collector who changed the course of Russian art

How Sergei Shchukin brought paintings by the most trailblazing members of the French avant-garde to Russia

17 Oct 2016

Harnessing the future: the art of Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni’s untimely death in 1916 turned him into the tragic hero of Futurism – and helped the artist’s reputation flourish abroad

23 Jul 2016
The Angkor-period temple of Banteay Top, within the Banteay Chhmar acquisition block. Lidar revealed details of a large earthen enclosure and additional temple sites and occupation areas in the vicinity of this large stone temple.

Airborne technology is revealing Cambodia’s extraordinary medieval history

Cambodia’s historic temples are some of the most impressive in the world, but there’s so much more hidden beneath the forest floor

16 Jul 2016

Does today’s gallery system work for artists?

Representation by a leading gallery can make an artist’s career. But do commercial galleries hold too much sway over contemporary art and artists?

27 Jun 2016
Pavel Tretyakov (1901), Ilia Repin. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Russian portraits at the NPG are a revelation

Russia’s 19th-century portraitists were more than a match for the exceptional writers and composers they painted. So why is their work so neglected?

13 May 2016
View of SFMOMA from Yerba Buena Gardens

SFMOMA reopens at the heart of San Francisco’s booming art scene

With 3,000 new works, a major extension, and an ingenious way of working with collectors, SFMOMA is becoming a modern art museum to rival all others

12 May 2016

Why collect only women artists?

Valeria Napoleone discusses her unusual collection, and the importance of her relationships with artists

27 Mar 2016
Artist's impression showing the exterior of the Public Art Depot, designed by MVRDV

The Rotterdam museum that collects collectors

The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is to store private collections – which is just the sort of collaboration the museum has always thrived on

8 Mar 2016

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Max Hollein on the link between the ICA’s small but important archival displays, and Baselitz’s early paintings at the Städel Museum

2 Jan 2016

Andrew Ciechanowiecki: 1924–2015

The art world has lost one of the most respected scholar-art dealers of the 20th century

15 Dec 2015

Apollo Awards Ceremony

The winners of the Apollo Awards 2015 were announced last night at a ceremony at RSA House in London, attended by major figures from the art world

24 Nov 2015