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A closer look at William Kent’s gilded ceilings at Houghton Hall

With a new book dedicated to William Kent’s Houghton Hall ceilings, Apollo takes a closer look at the depiction of Venus in the Green Velvet Drawing Room

30 May 2022
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Gnarled histories – winemaking in Algeria

Though France is now better known for its winemaking industry, the country owes the survival of its connoisseurship to Algeria

30 May 2022
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Double take – Picasso’s Seated Nude (detail; 1909–10) and El Greco's Penitent Magdalene (detail; c. 1580–85), El Greco. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2022

How El Greco rocked Picasso’s world

Carmen Giménez, the curator of an upcoming exhibition in Basel, talks to Apollo about the modernist’s lifelong debt to the Old Master

30 May 2022
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Can an exhibition represent a nation?

Exhibitions can successfully capture a cultural and social moment, but they are as much a glimpse into the mindset of the curators as they are into the art of that time

30 May 2022
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Fresh flavours at the National Gallery’s new restaurant

The gallery’s gloomy dining room is now a thing of the past. The restaurant has an elegant new look and menu to match

30 May 2022
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Cosmopolitan oil dealer Calouste Gulbenkian’s rich pickings

The Armenian businessman had a taste for portable items of beauty and cherished his collection as though it were an extension of himself

27 May 2022
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Acquisitions of the Month: April 2022

A terrifically grumpy portrait of Goya and a mythical landscape by Paul Bril are among this month’s highlights

5 May 2022
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The art of armour – uncovering the details of a Renaissance shield

Pierre Terjanian of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells Apollo why a Renaissance pageant shield is such a beguiling work of art

28 Apr 2022
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Lines of control – the story of Jackson Pollock’s drips

The American painter may be famed for a chaotic approach, but in reality he had complete command of his materials – and he owed his technique to a printmaker

28 Apr 2022
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Philip Guston Dawn

Mixed emotions – the uneasy art of Philip Guston

The artist’s motivations for painting hooded Ku Klux Klan figures were as complicated and unsettling as our reactions as viewers might be

28 Apr 2022
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Cult status – the idiosyncratic portraits of Glyn Philpot

The painter’s contemporaries saw him as a successor to Sargent, but his depictions of Black and queer subjects may stand out more today

28 Apr 2022
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Marcela Correa sculptures

An elegant pairing of modern art and Chilean wine

Blending wine, art and hospitality, Viña Vik wine estate invites visitors to indulge in the totality of aesthetic pleasure

28 Apr 2022
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Elizabeth David’s taste in Old Masters

Suspicious of photography’s ability to illustrate her colourful accounts of culinary history, food writer Elizabeth David looked to the Old Masters instead

28 Apr 2022
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The exterior of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, designed by Henry Flitcroft

How the Versailles of Yorkshire was saved from ruin

Wentworth Woodhouse, the largest stately home in England, has at last been restored to something of its former glory

28 Apr 2022
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Forgotten artist Maeve Gilmore comes into her own

Maeve Gilmore thrived on the demands of domesticity – and her family is now on a mission to make her art much better known

28 Apr 2022
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The must-see pavilions at the Venice Biennale

From Simone Leigh’s monumental sculptures to Zineb Sedira’s inventive sets, this year’s Venice Biennale presents a rich and varied portrait of contemporary art across the globe

21 Apr 2022
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Full circle – the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice returns to its social roots

Formerly home to the Venetian officials who cared for the city’s poor, the newly restored historic building now serves the local community as well as tourists

21 Apr 2022
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Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire

How the Jewish aristocracy reinvented the European country house

In the late 19th century, Jewish families across Europe created homes that are monuments to the complexity of cosmopolitanism and integration

7 Apr 2022
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Waking Dream Seance: Surrealist Group,

The violence and creativity of André Breton’s Surrealism

Underlying the Surrealist leader’s preoccupation with dreams and the unconscious was a very practical desire to change the world. Who’s to say he didn’t succeed?

5 Apr 2022
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Natura morta con aragosta e rapanelli (1938), Cagnaccio di San Pietro. Private collection.

The Venetian painter whose still lifes look good enough to eat

Cagnaccio di San Pietro grew up in a Venetian fishing village – so it’s no surprise seafood stars in his still lifes

5 Apr 2022
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Bastion House – the passing of a London landmark

140 London Wall is an imperious piece of 1970s architecture – so why is it being replaced by a generic office block, at great environmental cost?

5 Apr 2022
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Untitled (2019), David Shrigley.

The fine art of winemaking

Making wine is an exacting activity that has much in common with the artistic process

5 Apr 2022
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Golden rose (second quarter of the 14th century), Minucchio Da Siena.

The Musée de Cluny brings the Middle Ages bang up to date

The museum has sensitively reimagined all its displays to breathe new life into its medieval masterpieces

4 Apr 2022
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Something to savour – at the new Food Museum in Suffolk

An East Anglian museum is turning its attention from the field to the table with provocative results

24 Mar 2022
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