Wanted: designs you can bank on

Your digest of the top events, art news and gossip       Get more great writing every day – from just £1 a week     Couleurs! Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou Grimaldi Forum, Monaco | 8 July–31 Aug A vivid display of 20th-century works from the Pompidou's permanent collection       Fault Lines: Art, Imperialism, and the Atlantic World Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | 12 July–25 Jan 2026 A chance to see Old Master paintings that shed light on European empires       Emily Kam Kngwarray Tate Modern, London | 10 July–11 Jan 2026 The Aboriginal artist, who took up painting in her seventies, gets a major retrospective       Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2025 National Portrait Gallery, London | 10 July–12 Oct This year's edition comprises 46 works selected by a panel that includes Maggi Hambling         Khaled Sabsabi has been reinstated as Australia's representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale | Blum is closing its galleries in Los Angeles and Tokyo | President Trump's landmark tax and spending bill includes $40m for a planned garden of statues | the Ford Foundation's next president is Heather Gerken – and the director of the Museu Afro Brasil in São Paulo has been sacked         Wanted: designs you can bank on         SPONSORED CONTENT FROM     'Drink Me!' commands the tiny bottle that transforms Alice's fortunes in Wonderland. In Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, published 160 years ago this week, the contents of that miniature vessel launch Alice into an adventure in which scale – and reality itself – is always shifting. From ancient Egyptian perfume vessels to Venetian glass masterpieces, decanters of all kinds have proven not only useful as vessels but captivating as sculptural objects, often crafted with exquisite attention to detail. Beyond their physical beauty, these objects serve as powerful symbols in art and literature. In Jan Steen's cautionary tavern scenes, Picasso's absinthe glasses or René Magritte's surreal wine bottles, such vessels represent transitions between states: sobriety to inebriation, illness to health, the ordinary to the extraordinary. This week we explore four works that celebrate or embody the role of drink in both fictional narratives and social settings. This is part of our 'Four things to see' series, which offers you a new way in to 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 © 2025 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.