Ed Behrens

2 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens

Not many people expect to find Antonio Banderas in Tokyo. But there he is, or at least there he is on a screen, in ‘Crafted World’, an exhibition mounted by Loewe in Japan to tell the fashion house’s story of craft. The notion of a Spanish leather company owned by a French luxury conglomerate putting on a show in East Asia is not as far-fetched as it might seem. Loewe first expanded to Japan in 1973, opening a concession in Nihombashi Mitsukoshi in Tokyo, the country’s first department store.

1 month ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens

For the past 10 or so years, there has been a concerted effort to rehabilitate Anni Albers so that she is taken as seriously as Josef, her husband. Josef was a tutor at the Bauhaus while Anni was a student there. He taught drawing and lettering; she learned weaving, set upon this thread by Walter Gropius, who didn’t think women could handle the labour of metalwork or painting.

1 month ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens |Samuel Reilly |Susan Moore |Rosalind Jana

In this issue It’s time for the UK to act on restitution An interview with Alex Da Corte The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Music-making in Renaissance Italy Plus: a new golden age at Versailles, Cycladic art over the centuries, the dangers of living in Los Angeles, Tracey Emin’s passion for painting, what new EU import laws will do to the art market, and a preview of TEFAF Maastricht; with reviews of modernism in Brazil, the drawings of Henri Michaux, and the essays of Svetlana Alpers. And...

2 months ago | apollo-magazine.com | Ed Behrens |Samuel Reilly |Michael Delgado |Hettie Judah

In this issue How pastels caused a stir in 18th-century ParisCimabue, the first light of the RenaissanceWhen Rubens was king of his own castleWill US tariffs threaten the art market? Also: American museums and the culture wars, in defence of eccentrics, the retro pleasures of Viennetta, Italy’s answer to Versailles; reviews of Orphism in New York and medieval women in London, John Singer Sargent’s favourite family, and the only Disney character who was ever funny.