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3 weeks ago | 
apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore
Renato de Albuquerque bought his first piece of Chinese export porcelain in the Portobello Road in London in the early 1980s. Four decades and some 2,600 acquisitions later, the Brazilian collector’s world-class holdings of primarily Ming- and Qing-dynasty export wares are at the heart of a new foundation that places the art of ceramics – past, present and future – centre stage.
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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...
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore
James Ensor has long been regarded as a maverick. Most celebrated – and rightly so – for his fantastical, often satirical images of the ghoulish and the grotesque, this ‘master of the mask’ has been cast as the consummate outsider. The notion was that this painter, draughtsman and etcher worked away alone and misunderstood in the garret above the family curiosity shop in Ostend, haunted by its contents.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
ft.com | Susan Moore
France’s flagship art and antiques fair has a chequered recent past.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
ft.com | Susan Moore
“Where there is energy and dynamism, there is a market,” says Henry Howard-Sneyd, longtime chair of Asian art at Sotheby’s and founding...
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore
It is hard to imagine a more appropriate way for the National Gallery to mark its bicentenary than with an exhibition that takes as its starting point the acquisition, a century ago, of two of its most popular paintings. Sunflowers and Van Gogh’s Chair arrived courtesy of a new purchase fund for modern art created by the collector and gallery trustee Samuel Courtauld.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore
From the July/August 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Parcours des Mondes offers – literally – ‘Journeys through Worlds’. This annual global art festival also brings the world to Paris. The arrival of these international collectors, curators and enthusiasts will be especially welcome in the galleries of Saint-Germain-des-Prés this year. For these are challenging times – and not only for obvious geopolitical reasons.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Susan Moore
From the March 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Helen, Lady Hamlyn CBE is, among many other things, a collector of buildings. More precisely, a collector of remarkable buildings – houses, chateaux, forts and palaces that tend to be either radically new or exceedingly old. ‘It breaks my heart to see a really wonderful building in a state of disrepair,’ she confesses as she describes some of her myriad rescue projects. Several have involved ruins on the brink of collapse.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
ft.com | Susan Moore
For an event designed, built, filled and promoted in just three months last year, Treasure House Fair’s mere existence was remarkable.
