What has the Arts Council done?

Plus: The Benin Bronzes go online       Get more great writing daily – save more than 20% on your first 3 months   Robert Hewison considers the Arts Council's 'levelling up' claims Like a small politbureau, the chief executive of the Arts Council England (ACE), Darren Henley, its head of communications, Mags Patten, and its chairman Sir Nicholas Serota sat shoulder to shoulder at a desk in the organisation's Manchester office for a livestreamed press conference. They were there to announce their spending plans for 2023–26. The format of the announcement, which had been delayed by the kerfuffles at Westminster, suited the hosts. Questions could be asked only by email, so it was difficult to extract any useful information, even when it emerged that English National Opera, one of the big four of England's performing arts organisations, was losing its £12.6 million a year funding in exchange for support to move out of London, probably to Manchester.   Read the full article       Samuel Reilly welcomes the online reunion of the Benin Bronzes In a funny twist of fate, Digital Benin should come as no small consolation to those in the West who still decry the prospect of ceding ownership of the Bronzes. It is a remarkable achievement; the resources offer deeper, richer and more rewarding engagement with the history and meaning of these artefacts than anything yet provided by any Western museum.   Read the full article       Rose Higham-Stainton on the really radical art of Nellie Mae Rowe Rowe knew about the domestic expectations placed on women, particularly African American women in the American South in the second half of the 20th century. Born in Georgia in 1900, she spent most of her life as a domestic help and the rest of it tending to husbands (there were two in rapid succession). She came to art-making late – retired into it, summoning a dormant creative impulse that had been buried for more than 50 years.   Read the full article       Vanessa Baird speaks to Millie Walton about her twisted fairy tales There are two recurring characters in Vanessa Baird's exhibition of watercolour drawings at No. 9 Cork Street, London. One is a cross-looking, yellow-skinned, bony old woman, wearing nothing but soiled diapers. The other is a woman dressed in a Disney-style Snow White costume, complete with puffy blue sleeves, a canary-coloured skirt and white apron... 'I have made myself the hero, the Disney princess,' says Baird.   Read the full article       Rosamund Bartlett on the remarkable career of Marianne Werefkin As both an émigré and a modernist artist, Werefkin remained a taboo figure in her homeland until the late 1980s, but her Russian identity has been reclaimed in recent years thanks to the opening up of far-flung archives, and an enduring fascination with the 'amazons' of the pre-Revolutionary avant-garde, of whom she was one of the very first.   Read the full article     In the current issue…     Jane Morris asks if auctions stand to gain from bypassing galleries Up until the 1990s, contemporary art was a small, risky and difficult-to-understand section of the art world and the big auction houses were happy to largely leave it to the primary galleries. But the boom in international demand for contemporary art, which has led to the explosion in contemporary biennials and museums in the past 30 years, brought that separation to an end.   Read the full article     In the next issue…   More from Apollo Current issue | Advertise | Podcasts   View this email in your browser   Follow us Apollo Magazine, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP. All Articles and Content Copyright © 2022 by Apollo Magazine. All Rights Reserved. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe at any time. To ensure our emails are delivered to your inbox, please add Apollo to your email address book and safe-sender list.     Posts les plus consultés de ce blog This Is What Fish Oil Supplements Actually Do mai 20, 2019 For centuries , humans have used fish oils, orally or topically, to treat a wide array of ailments, from aches and pains to rickets and gout. The popularity of this supplement has shifted over the years, as have its primary uses. 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