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‘Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise’
London was rebuilt according to its inhabitants’ needs after the Great Fire of 1666 – and is so much the better for it.
The Chinese tea bowl that is a minor miracle
The highlight of the Asian art sales in London is a ceramic masterpiece that was created in China almost a thousand years ago
Julia Stoschek on the realities of collecting video art
The German collector, who recently launched a new space in Berlin, talks to Apollo about the challenges and rewards of acquiring a young art form
Creative Industries Federation says EU citizens in the UK must be able to stay
Art News Daily : 28 October
Georgian Gothic is no longer the eccentric style it used to be
Scholars have started to treat Georgian Gothic architecture and design much more seriously
Turkey’s art scene was booming. Now, it’s braced for trouble
Turkey’s art scene has been growing for years, but has struggled in the wake of the failed coup attempt of 15 July and subsequent government crackdowns
Sadiq Khan announces trust to help create affordable artists’ studios
Art News Daily : 27 October
‘Another manifestation of the barbarism that has overwhelmed this country’
Walsall’s New Art Gallery is one of the best buildings to come out of the UK’s Millennium celebrations. Can it survive the devastating budget cuts it faces?
The global ambitions of Artes Mundi
Six shortlisted artists battle it out for this year’s prize – one of the nominees, Bedwyr Williams, tells Apollo about his futuristic project
How exactly does crime affect the art market?
Art crime is never far from the headlines, and it should be taken as seriously as any other crime
How US election art just keeps getting grosser…
First a sculpture of Hillary Clinton suckling a banker appeared in New York, and now comes Donald Trump as an ugly Renaissance baby
It’s the loneliness of Diane Arbus’s images that make them so discomforting today
An exhibition of Diane Arbus’s early work presents curiosities without cabinets
The effort to save Italy’s earthquake-damaged art and architecture
Two months after the devastating quake in central Italy, it’s still not clear how much of the region’s heritage has been destroyed
Helsinki’s artists are world class – but recognition has to start at home
Both government and business need to realise how much the art scene here is worth celebrating, and sooner rather than later
Art history benefits us all. Why won’t the government fight for it?
We will never defeat the notion that art is the preserve of the privileged, if we stop people from learning about it
Della Robbia’s glazed terracotta changed Tuscan art
This superb exhibition makes us look at terra invetriata – a prodigious combination of earth, glass, and fire – through the eyes of 15th-century Tuscans
Keith Cunningham: the artist who walked away from fame
He was ranked alongside Auerbach and Kossoff: so why did Cunningham stop painting just as his career was taking off?
Proposed funding cuts threaten the future of the New Art Gallery Walsall
Art News Daily : 24 October
Why it’s boom time for the art insurance sector
With more art moving around the world than ever before, art insurance is now a huge business
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The Madonna and Maggie Simpson; Alex Katz at H&M; the girl with the not-so-pearl earring and more
Remembering Anne Crookshank (1927–2016)
Irish art history owes a huge debt to the pioneering contribution of Anne Crookshank
Why has it taken early Chinese photography so long to emerge from the shadows?
Stephan Loewentheil has been on a 35-year-long quest to collect and display historic photographs of China