Previews
First Look: ‘Cézanne and the Modern’ at the Ashmolean Museum
Henry and Rose Pearlman’s superb collection includes Cézanne’s very last, a magical still life
First Look: ‘Art and Optimism in 1950s Britain’ at mima
Alix Collingwood introduces mima’s latest exhibition of art and design in post-war Britain
A Collection of Ideas: Five Innovations
Luke Baker introduces five of the unusual design items in MoMA’s ‘Collection of Ideas’
First Look: Photographs at Play
‘Photographs at Play’ opens at The Morgan this week: an invitation to think creatively about photography…
First Look: Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray
Three great artists, one exhibition: Francesco Stocchi discusses his latest project at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
First Look: A Royal Passion at the Getty
A new exhibition at the Getty looks at the early days of photography and the young Queen Victoria’s enduring interest in the medium
First Look: Discoveries
Nicholas Thomas introduces an eclectic new exhibition, ‘Discoveries’ at Two Temple Place
First Look: Joseph Wright of Derby
Amina Wright introduces ‘Joseph Wright of Derby: Bath and Beyond’ at the Holburne Museum
First Look: The ‘Furias’
Miguel Falomir introduces ‘The “Furias”: Political Allegory and Artistic Challenge’ at the Prado, Madrid
First Look: Hannah Höch
Daniel F. Herrmann introduces the upcoming Hannah Höch exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery
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
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