January 2023 Volume CXCVII No– 715

House insborough

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13 Editor’s Letter 14 Agenda

January highlights, including Art SG and The Winter Show 21 Around the Galleries

Samuel Reilly previews BRAFA and picks out gallery shows to see 24 Letter

Sophie Barling looks for nods to classical antiquity in Venice 26 In Perspective

Hettie Judah listens closely to two inventive films 29 Art Market

Jane Morris predicts what 2023 holds for the market 33 Collectors’ Focus

Emma Crichton-Miller on the demand for art nouveau ceramics

Cover Cecilia Alemani, photographed in New York by Brad Ogbonna in March 2022 See feature on pp. 44–45

APOLLO JANUARY 2023

36 Architecture

Edwin Heathcote on the details that put Paris streets ahead 38 Food

Thomas Marks cracks open an edifying new book about eggs 40 Wine

Christina Makris on the long history of Venetian viticulture

Apollo Awards 2022 44 Personality 46 Artist 50 Museum Opening 52 Exhibition 54 Book 56 Digital Innovation 58 Acquisition

Plus our survey of the year’s most important museum acquisitions 68 The Apollo Awards ceremony in pictures p. 78

Features 70 The Remains of Today

Mike Nelson talks to Gabriel Coxhead about the modern detritus from which he makes unsettling sculptures 78 Formative Views

Susan Owens visits the house in Suffolk where Thomas Gainsborough grew up and sees the landscape that shaped him 86 Going Dutch

Edward Behrens unravels the origins of a remarkable set of tapestries designed by Rubens, now in Kilkenny Castle

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