JANUARY 2015 £5.95

THE INTERNATIONAL ART MAGAZINE

Flights of Fancy

British artists and aviation

Olafur Eliasson..

crafting the sublime

Is it time to rethink copyright?

‘Citizen Kane’ and the sale of

Scotland

The trouble with museum franchises

Cover Banking at 4000 Feet, 1917 (from Britain’s Efforts and Ideals) C.R.W. Nevinson (1889–1946) Lithograph on paper 40.331.6cm Tate Collection Photo: © Tate, London 2014 © Crown Copyright See feature on pp. 58–62

Olafur Eliasson: pp. 46–50

CONTENTS JANUARY 2015 VOLUME CLXXXI NO. 627

15 Editor’s Letter

Curatorial wit 16 Agenda

What’s on around the world in January 18 Forum

Should we be cynical about international museum franchises? 20 Diary

Stephen Bann 23 Letter

Fatema Ahmed reports from Paris 25 Art Outlook

Maggie Gray rounds up recent art news

Features 27 In the Frame Frederick Wiseman talks to Apollo about his new film, National Gallery 30 Right or Wrong?

Is it time to rethink artists’ copyright? 37 A Fine Vintage

Emma Crichton-Miller previews the Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair 40 Belgian Colour

Susan Moore talks to Gilbert Weynans about his art nouveau glass and decorative art holdings 46 A New Romantic

Martin Gayford talks to Olafur Eliasson about his immersive installations 52 Sale of the Century

Christopher Maxwell on William Randolph Hearst and the Hamilton Palace interiors 58 New Horizons

Maggie Gray explores the connection between aviation and abstraction in modern British painting 64 Enduring Places

Apollo publishes Lee Hallman’s winning essay for the 2014 Lund Humphries Emerging Art Writers Competition

JANUARY 2015 APOLLO 11