‘The Cloaca are machines, they’re animals, they’re us’
Wim Delvoye discusses merde-making machines, mass production, pig tattoos and Europe’s messy future
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Your chance to win ‘Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World’ by Joanna Marschner with David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford (eds.)
The Apollo podcast: Charles Saumarez Smith
Thomas Marks talks to the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy about his new book on East London
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Your chance to win ‘Picturing America: the Golden Age of Pictorial Maps’ by Stephen J. Hornsby
Acquisitions of the month: April 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from the final portrait of the 1st Duke of Wellington, to a rare Modigliani sculpture
The man on a mission to re-energise Murano glass
‘Letting Murano glass die is like allowing the Colosseum to collapse’
The Apollo podcast: Adam Lowe
Thomas Marks talks to the founder of the Factum Foundation about how digital technologies are conserving world heritage
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Your chance to win ‘Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis’, edited by Maud Lankester and Yvette Bruijnen
Do museum directors need curatorial experience?
It takes all manner of skills and qualities to run a top institution – or at least to do it well.
‘It’s hard to figure out why Giacometti is so good’
Carol Bove on Alberto Giacometti, the Venice Biennale, and being ‘spiritually Swiss’
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Stanley Spencer: Looking to heaven’, edited by John Spencer (Unicorn Press)
Acquisitions of the month: March 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from rare Fabergé animals in London to Canadian masterpieces in Ottawa
Eight art events to get to in April
Highlights include shows devoted to Botticelli, Balla, and Walker Evans, and Tate’s ‘Queer British Art’ exhibition
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London’, edited by Julius Bryant and Susan Weber
Is Documenta exploiting the economic crisis in Athens?
This year Documenta will be split between Kassel and Athens. Is this ‘crisis tourism’ or will it spotlight the city’s overlooked contemporary art scene?
TEFAF video: an unholy alliance – conflict or symbiosis?
Watch a TEFAF Talk about the relationship between museums and the art trade
Where to go when you leave TEFAF Maastricht
If you’re visiting the fair, why not expand your horizons and head to these nearby art events, too?
Are things looking up for women in the arts?
Women artists have long been underrepresented on the world stage. On International Women’s Day, we celebrate some notable recent attempts at change
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art and its Dealers’ by Philip Hook
Acquisitions of the month: February 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from a late medieval altarpiece panel, to 62 works of art by contemporary African American artists
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
Is the Bilbao effect over?
How has the Guggenheim Bilbao changed the city in the 20 years since it opened – and should other cities still try to copy its example?
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Do artists’ lives get in the way of their work?
An exhibition of Eric Gill’s art in Ditchling raises questions about how far we can separate art from life. Should biography shape our understanding of an artist’s work?