Aberdeen Art Gallery Reopened November 2019 A renovation and expansion costing £34.6m almost doubled the number of permanent galleries (to 19) and allowed three times as many objects to go on display. The history and wealth of Aberdeen’s civic collections, from founding collector Alexander Macdonald’s Victorian portrait gallery to recent acquisitions of Scottish silver, are […]
Steve McQueen This has been a busy year for Steve McQueen by anyone’s standards. A career retrospective at Tate Modern was accompanied by ‘Year 3’ at Tate Britain – a photographic project that saw the ground-floor gallery walls covered with thousands of school portraits, offering a snapshot of contemporary London; for a short time, enlarged […]
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions is published in the December 2020 issue Art Fund Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, bought by Derek Jarman in 1986 The artist and film-maker Derek Jarman acquired Prospect Cottage, a former fisherman’s home on the Kent coast, in 1986; he lived there until his death in 1994. Adorned […]
The most inspirational young people in the African art world
Artist and founder of the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, London and Nairobi
Co-founder, Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca
Artistic director, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech; head of cultural projects, Fondation Alliances, Casablanca
Paris and Roubaix
Johannesburg
Director, 32° East Ugandan Arts Trust, Kampala
