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First Look: Photorealism
Katie Hall introduces ‘Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealism’ at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
First Look: Thomas Rowlandson
Kate Heard introduces ‘High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson’ at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh
First Look: Turner and the Sea
Christine Riding, Senior Curator of Arts at the Royal Museums Greenwich, introduces ‘Turner and the Sea’
First Look: Drawing Time, Reading Time
Claire Gilman introduces ‘Drawing Time, Reading Time’ at the Drawing Center in New York
First Look: Art Turning Left
Francesco Manacorda introduces ‘Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making’ at Tate Liverpool
First Look: Georgians Revealed
Moira Goff, lead curator of ‘Georgians Revealed’ at the British Library, talks to Apollo
First Look: Nur
Sabiha Al-Khemir, curator of ‘Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World’ at the Focus-Abengoa Foundation in Seville, talks to Apollo
First Look: Daumier
Catherine Lampert, curator of ‘Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, talks to Apollo
First Look: Malevich
Geurt Imanse and Bart Rutten, curators of ‘Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde’ at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, talk to Apollo
First Look: Eileen Gray
Cloé Pitiot, co-curator of ‘Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter’ at IMMA, speaks to Apollo about the inspiration she has drawn from the artist
First Look: Facing the Modern
Gemma Blackshaw, guest curator of ‘Facing the Modern: the Portrait in Vienna 1900’ at the National Gallery in London, speaks to Apollo
First Look: Shunga
Tim Clark, curator of ‘Shunga: Sex and Pleasure’ at the British Museum, speaks to Apollo
First Look: Magritte at MoMA
Anne Umland, curator of ‘Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938’ at MoMA speaks to Apollo
First Look: Canterbury and St Albans
Kristen Collins and Jeffrey Weaver introduce an exhibition of English Romanesque art which opens at the Getty on Friday
First Look: Masterpieces at the Sainsbury Centre
Curator Ian Collins introduces ‘Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia’, which opens on Saturday
First Look: Bacon/Moore at the Ashmolean
Curator Martin Harrison speaks to Apollo about ‘Flesh and Bone’, which opens on Thursday
First Look: ‘Victoriana’ at the Guildhall
In this ongoing series, Apollo previews a range of international exhibitions and hears from their curators
A new look for Japanese art at the MFA Boston
The museum holds the world’s largest collection of Japanese art outside Japan itself – and now has suitably meditative spaces to match
Sotheby’s earnings plummet by 88 per cent in first half of year
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
‘I know exactly what I am looking for’ – Helen Hamlyn on collecting with purpose
The philanthropist’s pursuits range from collecting Asian art to restoring ruined buildings
The Italian wines that look as good as they taste
A series of artist-designed bottles produced by an innovative Tuscan winery wouldn’t be out of place in a gallery
The week in art news – the Met hires its first head of provenance
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
A New Look at Van Eyck: Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
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The pyramids at Giza looked very different when they were first built
The Egyptian pyramids were originally covered in smooth white limestone – as a casing stone now in Scotland shows