The art of being Barbra Streisand

Your digest of the top events, art news and gossip       Christmas offer: Subscribe today for yourself or a friend and receive a free copy of Frans Hals     Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here? Hepworth Wakefield | 25 Nov–2 June 2024 The Scottish painter deftly plays with art-historical references to recreate personal memories       Botticelli Drawings The Legion of Honor, San Francisco | 19 Nov–11 Feb 2024 The first ever show of drawings by the Renaissance master is a real event       Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec Royal Academy, London | 25 Nov–10 Mar 2024 Paper allowed artists to capture life on the move and as it was lived       The Irreplaceable Human Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek | 23 Nov–1 Apr 2024 Should we fear AI image-generating tools or embrace them?         Documenta's search committee for a new director has resigned en masse | A French court has upheld the antiquities trafficking charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, former director of the Louvre | The Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko has received a seven-year sentence for protesting against the invasion of Ukraine | The British Pop artist Joe Tilson has died at the age of 95 | The Indian art historian B.N. Goswamy has died at the age of 90 | Climate activists have crashed an auction at Christie's in New York – and graffitied a memorial to the Union dead at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.         The art of being Barbra Streisand         SPONSORED CONTENT FROM   While the Elizabethan era is associated with what's known as the 'English Renaissance', this had little to do with Elizabeth I herself, who was not a major patron of the arts. Playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe flourished at this time, but only the poet Edmund Spenser was awarded a pension from the queen. Credit is due instead to the individual artists, writers, architects and musicians who shaped the art of the period. We take a look at four objects in museum collections that represent the culture and politics of Elizabeth I's reign. This is part of our 'Four things to see' series that offers you a new way into some of the world's greatest collections, sponsored by Bloomberg Connects: the free arts and culture app.     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 © 2023 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.