Alice Neel: People Come First Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 22 March–1 August In around 100 paintings, drawings and watercolours the largest retrospective of Neel’s work in New York – and the first in 20 years – argued for her as one of the great American painters of the 20th century. The artist’s urgent, […]
Casa Balla, Rome Opened June 2021 For nearly 30 years, from 1929 until his death in 1958, Giacomo Balla lived in this apartment on Via Oslavia in Rome. Having been left to his daughters, who lived here until their deaths in the 1990s, the flat – a living laboratory for the Futurist’s work, its walls, […]
A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540–1640 Mark Girouard Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The eminent architectural historian’s compendium of the people who created English architecture between 1540 and 1640 includes entries about master craftsmen, designers, surveyors and patrons. It is, astonishingly, the first book of its kind. Francis Bacon: Revelations Mark […]
Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey has been making his compelling photographic portraits for five decades. Ranging from images of Harlem in the 1970s to recent work, his first career survey opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last year before travelling to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and then on to the […]
Digital Violence This website presents the findings of Forensic Architecture’s investigation into the use of the malware Pegasus, made by the cybersurveillance company NSO Group, which, the project reports, has infected phones of journalists and activists across the world. Majolica Mania Online Surpassing most digital exhibitions in depth and breadth, this companion to Bard’s survey […]
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions will be published in the December 2021 issue Château de Versailles Bust of Georges Mareschal (c. 1700–10), François Girardon The pre-eminent French sculptor under Louis XIV, François Girardon completed a number of major commissions for the palace and gardens of Versailles. The sober, classicising restraint of […]
