While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
Sixty-five key paintings in the Royal Collection, usually hung in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, went on public display together for the first time at the start of this month – in the Queen’s Gallery, to allow for renovation works on the palace to begin. The show, which includes masterpieces by the likes of Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Dyck and Canaletto, has been shuttered after just two weeks due to Covid-19 restrictions in London, but the Royal Collection has published extensive materials relating to the display on its website. These include texts and images exploring each of the three themed rooms, and a 3D virtual tour. Find out more from the Royal Collection’s website.
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
This is the first major exhibition for 30 years devoted to Cincinnati’s favourite artistic son. Born in Covington in 1848, Frank Duveneck moved to Munich for his studies in the 1860s. He remained in Europe until 1888, and among the 125 works on show here are his Impressionist-influenced Bavarian landscapes and Venetian harbour scenes. After returning to the US, he taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where he became director of faculty in 1905. He was renowned for the panache of his society portraits and above all for his genre paintings of street children – ruddy-faced cobbler’s boys and street urchins, catching the viewer’s eye as they nonchalantly whistle or smoke. The exhibition, which also includes the artist’s lithographs and drawi
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
Mary Weatherford has incorporated neon tubing into her paintings since 2012, when she became fascinated by the signage she saw while driving around the city of Bakersfield in California. These luminous, abstract canvases are often evocative of urban life – but they also frequently call to mind mountain views or seascapes, and indeed Weatherford’s paintings are intended as an exploration of the gaps and the connections between nature and artifice. This display at Aspen Art Museum includes a selection of major neon works from the last decade; it runs from 18 December–2 May 2021. Find out more from Aspen Art Museum’s website.
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
Drawn from the Dallas Museum of Art’s significant holdings of silks from sub-Saharan Africa, this display offers an overview of sericulture in the region from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. Handwoven
kente cloths worn by the royals of the Asante kingdom (in modern-day Ghana) are displayed alongside prestigious robes made in the Hausa and Yoruba regions of Nigeria and often embroidered by specialists of the Nupe people; the show, which runs from 20 December–24 October 2021, also includes Malagasy shawls from Madagascar. Find out more from Dallas Museum of Art’s website.
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
The furniture of Jean-Henri Riesener, with its signature floral marquetry and elaborate gilt-bronze mounts, typifies the opulent era of Louis XVI; he was appointed cabinetmaker to the king in 1774, and was a favourite of Marie-Antoinette. Over the past five years, a research project led by the Wallace Collection in partnership with the Royal Collection Trust and Waddesdon Manor has delved into Riesener’s life and work, and now culminates in a series of exhibitions across the institutions, as well as a number of new digital resources. At the Wallace is a display focusing on furniture owned by Marie-Antoinette, and on Riesener’s influence on 19th-century cabinetmakers (until 5 April 2021); in the spring, Waddesdon will present an object trail featur