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Book Review
‘What would you like?’ Collecting Art for the Nation: An Account by a Director of Collections
06/2025 | 1467 | 167
Pages: 627–628
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Stephen (Lloyd, Stephen)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
subjects:
Collecting / Art museums / Olausson, Magnus
Reviewed Items
subjects:
‘What would you like?’ Collecting Art for the Nation: An Account by a Director of Collections Edited by Magnus Olausson and Eva- Lena Karlsson. 496 pp. incl. 726 col. ills. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2024), 495 SEK. ISBN 978–91–7100–929–6. | :
Book Review
Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art
06/2025 | 1467 | 167
Pages: 624–625
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Reviewer:
Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Women / Art museums / Curators / Conservators / Donors
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Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art Edited by Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-Kohn. 424 pp. incl. 235 col. + b. & w. ills. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024), $45. ISBN 978–1–63345–079–0. | :
Editorial
A Frick renaissance
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 203–4
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Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Frick, Henry Clay
museums and institutions:
Frick Collection, New York, United States
subjects:
Remodelling (buildings) / Historic buildings / Art museums / American architecture (United States of America) / Collections / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Frick Collection from East 70th Street, New York. (Image courtesy Seldorf Architects).
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2. The Frick Collection’s grand staircase, prior to renovation. (Photograph MichaelBodycomb).
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3. The Frick Collection’s new entrance hall. (Image courtesy Seldorf Architects).
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4. Mistress and maid, by Johannes Vermeer. 1666–67. Oil on canvas, 90.2 by 78.7 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).
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5. Portrait of Mr Frick in West Gallery, by Gerald Kelly. 1925. Oil on canvas, 122 by 102 cm. (The Frick Pittsburgh).
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6. The Frick Collection’s new objects conservation studio. (Image courtesy Seldorf Architects).
Editorial
Cataloguing
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 79
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Subjects
subjects:
Catalogues / Catalogues raisonnés / Collections, Public / scholars / Curators / Art museums / Museums
Book Review
Peintures germaniques des collections françaises (1370–1550)
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1264–7
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Reviewer:
Viehweger, Lea (Viehweger, Lea)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues / Exhibition catalogues
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France / Musée des Beaux Arts de Dijon, Dijon, France / Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France
places:
France
subjects:
German art / Art museums / Holy Roman Empire
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Peintures germaniques des collections françaises (1370–1550) Edited by Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann and Aude Briau. 416 pp. incl. 200 ills. (Éditions Faton, Paris, and Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Dijon, 2024), €39. ISBN 978–2–87844–348–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Emperor Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl, Konrad Witz. c.1435. Mixed media on panel, 108 by 83 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
1. Tree of Jesse. Upper Rhenish, Basel(?), c.1490– 1500. Mixed media on panel, 213.4 by 229.5 cm. (Saint-George, Marckolsheim)
Western art unattributed:
3. St Catherine. Switzerland, c.1460. Oil on panel, 60 by 66 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Exhibition Review
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1077–9
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Reviewer:
Hillyard, Helen (Hillyard, Helen)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Great Britain
subjects:
Art museums / Regional Museums / University museums
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subjects:
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham From 22nd June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Abd-al Wāhid bin Mas’ūd bin Muhammed bin ‘Anūrī, Moroccan Ambassador to Elizabeth I. 1600. Oil on panel, 113 by 87.6 cm. (Research and Cultural Collections, University of Birmingham; exh. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
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26. Deposition, by the circle of Rogier van der Weyden. c.1450. Oil on panel, centre panel 53.3 by 42.8 cm.; wings 52.5 by 16.7 cm. (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
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27. Protection, by Claudette Johnson. 2024. Oil, oil pastel and soft pastel in gesso on primed watercolour paper, 154 by 122 cm. (© Claudette Johnson; courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London; exh. Barber Institute of Arts, Birmingham).
Exhibition Review
Medieval and Baroque gallery Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 946-9
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Reviewer:
Opacic, Zoë (Opacic, Zoë)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Slovenská Národná Galéria, Bratislava, Slovakia
places:
Bratislava
subjects:
Museums / Architecture / Art museums / Medieval art / Baroque / Slovak / Religious art
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Medieval and Baroque gallery Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava From 23rd June 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Bridging, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, designed by Vladímir Dedeček. 1969–77.
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2. Installation view of the Sacred Art gallery at the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, 2023. (Courtesy Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava).
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3. Nativity of Christ, attributed to Hans Kamensetzer. 1485–87. Wood, 206 by 118 by 57.5 cm. (Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava).
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4. Installation view of the Sacred Art gallery at the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, 2023, showing Iconoclasm/ Disconnected Relations, by Ján Zelinka. 2010. Concrete, 150 by 120 by 220 cm.
Exhibition Review
Kunstsilo, Kristiansand
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 745–7
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Reviewer:
Saumarez Smith, Charles (Saumarez Smith, Charles; Smith, Charles Saumarez)
Subjects
artists:
Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Barcelona, Spain
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, Norway
patrons:
Tangen, Nicolai / AKO Foundation
subjects:
Art museums / Architecture / Scandinavian School / Norwegian School
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Kunstsilo, Kristiansand From 11th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Atrium of the Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, designed by Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida and BAX studios. 2017–24.
Attributed works:
26. Installation view of Passions of the North at Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, 2024. (Courtesy Kunstsilo, Kristiansand; photograph Tor Simen Ulstein).
Exhibition Review
Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 418–419
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Reviewer:
Saumarez Smith, Charles (Saumarez Smith, Charles; Smith, Charles Saumarez)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, Spain
subjects:
Art museums / Contemporary art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia From November 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Façade of the Palacio de Valeriola, Valencia. 18th century. (Photograph Pedro Pegenaute).
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30. Installation view of Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, 2023, showing Corona Australis 38.89, by Tomás Saraceno. 2023. Stainless steel, fishing line and iridescent plexiglass.
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31. Installation view of Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, 2023, showing Landline heat, by Sean Scully. 2023. Stained glass.
Exhibition Review
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 414–418
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Reviewer:
Wine, Humphrey (Wine, Humphrey)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
subjects:
Finnish School / Art museums / Displays / Collections, Public
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subjects:
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki From 14th April 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Wounded angel, by Hugo Simberg. 1903. Oil on canvas, 127 by 154 cm. (Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki).
Attributed works:
27. Installation view of A Question of Time at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, 2023, showing the Aino myth triptych. 1891. Oil on canvas, 200 by 413 cm. (Courtesy Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki; photograph Aleks Talve).
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28. Giving birth and dying still, by Toni R. Toivonen. 2016. Original substances of a dead animal and brass, 200 by 300 by 4 cm. (Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki).
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