Apollo

March 2006

Features:

• EDITORIAL The future of the Crafts Council
• 10 TO CATCH What’s on around the world in March
• LONDON NEWS Samson Spanier witnesses an angry debate about arts policy
• REMBRANDT NEWS The artist’s 400th birthday is marked by a cornucopia of events, and new research
• MUMBAI NEWS Louise Nicholson reports on the battle to protects the city’s historic buildings
• THE UFFIZI’S MASTER JUGGLER There was outrage last year when Antonio Paolucci, the head of Florence’s museums, appointed himself director of the Uffizi. In a rare interview, he explains to Carla Passino how he copes with both roles – and outlines his vision for the gallery’s future.
• COLLAGE, COLLECTING AND PETER BLAKE Intimately linked with his art, Peter Blake’s collections are the subject of an exhibition at this year’s Olympia Fine Art, Design & Antiques Fair. Bevis Hillier visited him in his London studio to talk about collecting. Photographs by Snowdon.
• HOLBEIN’S THOMAS WYATT THE YOUNGER Holbein’s portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger – who was beheaded for treason in 1554 – was thought to be known only from copies. Roy Strong reveals that this innovatory masterpiece survives.
• A NEWLY DISCOVERED DRAWING BY TADDEO ZUCCARO This magnificent study of God is almost certainly a fragment of a drawing by Taddeo Zuccaro for the famous fresco of God Creating Eve in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, argues Gregory Muenzen.
• GAUGUIN AND A BROTHEL IN ARLES Gauguin’s stay in Arles with Van Gogh in 1888 had a transforming impact on his art partly because it was also a time of sexual awakening, argues Martin Gayford, using newly discovered evidence.
• SILVER FOR HOLY DAYS The newly opened ‘Sacred Silver’ gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, contains an impressive display of Jewish art from the Middle Ages to the present day, as as Louise Hofman reveals.
• David B. Elliott, A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage by Simon Pö
• Anne Middleton Wagner, Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture, by James Hall
• C.E.B. Brett, Towers of Crim Tartary: English and Scottish Architects in the Crimea 1762-1853, by James Stevens Curl
• ‘Marco Palmezzano, il Rinascimento nelle Romagne’ by Tom Henry
• ‘Poussin, Watteau, Chardin, David.. Peintures fraņaises dans les collections allemandes, XVIIe-XVIIIe sìcles’ by Robert Oresko
• ‘Embracing the Exotic: Jacob Epstein and Dora Gordine’ by Peyton Skipwith
• David Watkin unveils a painting by Carl Laubin that incorporates all the major works of C.R. Cockerell
• COLLECTORS’ FOCUS Charles Avery discusses the market for Old Master sculpture
• CONTEMPORARY ART by Martin Gayford: artists’ clothes and the cult of the dandy
• ARCHITECTUREby Gavin Stamp: the sale of buildings and fittings by charities
• FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES John Rowlands reviews John Pope-Hennessy’s memoirs
• Asia Week in New York by Susannah Woolmer
• THE ART MARKET by Susan Moore