Robert Hanks

Sep 2, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Robert Hanks

From the September 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. This month, the Czech film-maker and artist Jan Švankmajer, best known for his surreal, gruesome, disconcerting and, if you’re in the right frame of mind, startlingly funny and beautiful animations, turns 90. Over more than 50 years he has made more than 30 films, many of them no more than a few minutes long, seven of them full-length features, and has won a reputation that crosses all borders of language and genre.

Apr 24, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Robert Hanks

When the Fitzwilliam’s rehang of five of its main rooms was unveiled in March, the Observer ran the story under the headline ‘“Inclusivity shouldn’t be controversial”: will a radical art rehang give Cambridge an unwanted “woke” row?’ Within a few hours, under the headline ‘Fitzwilliam Museum’s inclusive rehang “not woke”’, the Telegraph website seemed to confirm that, yes, an unwanted ‘woke’ row was exactly what Cambridge would be getting.

Apr 4, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Robert Hanks

From the April 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Cinema is a collaborative art, and auteurist accounts that centre the director’s vision often seem at odds with the actual process of film-making.

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

Dec 18, 2023 | apollo-magazine.com | Robert Hanks

From the December 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Before the Industrial Revolution and the great shift of population from countryside to city, most dogs were kept to do a job: herding, guarding, hunting, racing, ratting. Of course, many dogs were also, some exclusively, beloved pets. But on or about the first half of the 19th century, canine character changed, the importance of dogs as companions began to outweigh their role as employees or co-workers.