Artemisia National Gallery, London 3 October–24 January 2021 This display under Letizia Treves’s expert curation gathered 30 works firmly attributed to Gentileschi and set them amid compelling biographical material. The drama of her life story, this display demonstrated, is exceeded only by the drama in her paintings. Leonardo da Vinci Musée du Louvre, Paris 24 […]
Art is where the home is Begun in response to Covid-19, ‘Art is where the home is’ was set up by Firstsite in Colchester to keep children entertained during lockdown. A free online activity pack – which has had more than 72,000 downloads – includes contributions from Grayson Perry and Jeremy Deller. The Botanical Mind […]
The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s Amelia Rauser Yale University Press This thought-provoking book looks at the vogue for ‘Grecian dress’ prevalent in Europe in the last decade of the 18th century. Rauser argues that in performances as ‘living statues’, women were making an important contribution to the […]
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 […]
