Emma Crichton-Miller

6 days ago | apollo-magazine.com | Emma Crichton-Miller

From the June 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In December 2008 a tin-glazed earthenware armorial dish, elaborately moulded and painted in blue, orange, yellow and manganese, came up for sale at Bonhams London. Made in c. 1649–51 and signed with the initials REN, the dish came from the Pickle-herring Quay pottery, pioneers in English delftware, established in Southwark by Christian Wilhelm in around 1618. The dish commemorates the union of the Markham and Faringe families.

2 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Emma Crichton-Miller

From the May 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1905, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, pioneers of American Pictorial photography, opened an exhibition space in New York. Little Galleries of the PhotoSecession, soon known as 291, its address on Fifth Avenue, at first championed fine art photography.

Mar 7, 2025 | ft.com | Emma Crichton-Miller

When Ayo Adeyinka, founder and director of London-based Tafeta gallery, visited the Venice Biennale last year, he was thrilled.

Feb 21, 2025 | apollo-magazine.com | Emma Crichton-Miller

From the December 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. During the almost 800 years that the Arab Muslim Abbasid caliphate held nominal sway from North Africa to India and the Aral Sea (750–1517), there were many disruptive interludes. The Samanid Empire, which lasted from 819 to 1005, was one of a handful of Iranian Muslim dynasties that contributed to what is known as the Persian Renaissance.

Feb 2, 2025 | ft.com | Emma Crichton-Miller

Sadler’s Wells East, a new dance centre for the UK in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, opens its doors next month after much...