The Week’s Muse: 6 December

A round-up of recent news and comment from The Muse Room

The Apollo Award Winners 2014 have been announced

Congratulations to this year’s winners! Among them: Nicholas Penny is Apollo’s Personality of the Year; Anselm Kiefer is Artist of the Year; and the Ashmolean Museum has won two awards, for Book and Acquisition…

Jeremy Deller on the relationship between Warhol and Morris

Jeremy Deller discusses ‘Love is Enough’, his ‘speculative show’ at Modern Art Oxford which brings Andy Warhol and William Morris together in an unlikely mix of art, design and ideals.

The Italian art invasion

© Giulio Paolini

There’s been a surge of interest in post-war Italian art recently, particularly in London. Why now? And how will Italy’s strict export laws affect things in a few years time? Rosalind McKever explains how supply and demand has reached a peculiar tipping point.