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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.
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert amassed more than 1,000 masterworks of European craftsmanship over the course of their lifetime, ranging from jewellery to snuff-boxes and from metalwork to mosaics. The collection is on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which has arranged this travelling exhibition of around 100
objets d’art from the collection, the first leg of which runs at DIVA in Antwerp from 5 March–15 August. Highlights include a 16th-century goblet in the form of a partridge, made by the goldsmith Georg Rüel. Find out more from DIVA’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.
Egypt’s famous burial customs continued long after the rule of the pharaohs had ended. With eight resplendent mummies, this show at North Carolina Art Museum (6 March–11 July) explores how Egyptian culture was influenced by the Greeks and the Romans between the third century BC and the second century AD. Drawn from the Manchester Museum’s collections, there are also more than 100 other objects on display, including papyrus scrolls, ceramics and jewellery, that reveal how expectations for the afterlife affected the day-to-day experiences of Greco-Roman Egyptians. Find out more from the NCAM’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.
Since adopting the party-crashing persona of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire in the early 1980s, Lorraine O’Grady has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptual art. This career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum (5 March–18 July) focuses on 12 major projects over the past four decades – including
Miscegenated Family Album (1994), a photo-installation that presented images of Queen Nefertiti alongside O’Grady’s late sister, and
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.
Thanks to the easing of Covid restrictions in Switzerland, the Kunsthaus Zürich is reopening on 2 March, bringing a second chance to explore the work of Ottilie W. Roederstein. Exceptionally successful in her lifetime, the Swiss artist was largely forgotten after her death in 1937. She spent much of her early career painting portraits and still lifes – conventional subjects for a professional female painter – but from the 1890s began to absorb a range of modernist influences, from Impressionism to Symbolism, that brought her international acclaim in the early 20th century. With some 75 works, this first Swiss survey in more than 80 years retraces her career (until 5 April). Find out more from the Kunsthaus Zürich’s website.