Fatema Ahmed

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Articles

A new chapter for the Parthenon Marbles?

2 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

In ‘Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon’ (Paul Dry Books), the poet A.E. Stallings tells the story of how Lord Elgin removed the sculptures from the Athenian Acropolis and considers how they have fared in London ever since.
The émigres who made Britain modern

1 month ago | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

Owen Hatherley’s new book is ‘The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century’ (Allen Lane). The book, which looks at the fields of photography, film, publishing, art and architecture, is about the intellectuals who escaped fascism in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and came to Britain.
The meetings of American artists

Jan 29, 2025 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

When Rachel Cohen’s first book, A Chance Meeting: American Encounters, was first published in 2004, it was widely acclaimed for its innovative structure in which the narrative unfolds like a game of consequences: a young Henry James, for instance, is photographed by Mathew Brady; Mathew Brady photographs Ulysses S. Grant; and Ulysses S. Grant meets Mark Twain.
Dame Rosalind Savill (1951–2024) | Apollo Magazine

Jan 6, 2025 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

Rosalind Savill spent almost her entire professional life in public service and, indeed, quite a lot of her time outside her day job, advising, teaching and sitting on numerous boards and committees. In 1974 she joined the Wallace Collection, the institution that would become her home and the main focus of her professional life for some 37 years, and that she would utterly transform during nearly two decades as its director.
Francesca Galloway’s couture collection

Nov 25, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

Francesca Galloway photographed at home in London in September 2024, with her Jack Russell, Rex. Photo: Benjamin McMahon
The cosmic art of Liliane Lijn

Sep 30, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

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Pompidou Centre’s economic model unsustainable, says French audit authority

Apr 27, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

The Pompidou Centre’s economic model is unsustainable, according to France’s Court of Accounts. The auditing authority published its report, covering the period 2013–22, on Tuesday. Its president Pierre Moscovici told Le Monde that that, at the moment, the Pompidou ‘does not have the means to finance its development and investment projects by itself’.
March 2024 | Apollo Magazine

Feb 26, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed |Robert Hanks |Annabel Jackson |Peter Parker

• Willem de Kooning’s Roman holidays• The sentimental side of Angelica Kauffman• Why the art world needs gatekeepers• An interview with Laure ProuvostPlus: the Met enters a new era, haunting buildings in Hungary, the reopening of the Fondation Bemberg, the modernist movement in Georgia, reviews of Lee Ufan in Berlin and the first English-language biography of Monet, and previews of TEFAF Maastricht and Salon du Dessin View the previous issues archive
What’s next for the Met?

Feb 26, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

From the March 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1970, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the centenary of its founding, it held a ball comprising several events for the price of one.
How to treat a person like a work of art

Nov 24, 2023 | apollo-magazine.com | Fatema Ahmed

Christine Coulson was a writer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for many years. Her second novel, ‘One Woman Show’, consists of 75-word-long descriptions – in the style of the wall labels Coulson used to write at the Met – to tell the story of Kitty Whitaker’s progress through the 20th century.