by Jon Lackman | 27 April 2010 | Journals
Apollo‘s new editor, Oscar Humphries, is profiled in The Telegraph:
Humphries follows a long line of qualified art historian editors, such as Denys Sutton, Anna Somers Cocks, David Ekserdjian and, most recently, Michael Hall. His background, however, is more in the field of the art trade … and journalism … As such, he is probably an unknown quantity to the magazine’s scholarly advisory board – including museum directors Mark Jones (V&A), Jeremy Warner (Wallace Collection) … [Humphries has said] that Apollo would “not become a contemporary art magazine, but a contemporary magazine.”
Humphries aims to make Apollo more accessible and to add coverage of contemporary art. According to The Evening Standard and The Art Newspaper, Humphries, “a long-time dandyish figure on the gallery circuit,” will “continue working for London’s Timothy Taylor Gallery where the 28-year-old is set to co-curate an exhibition of 1950s European art and design this summer.”
