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The Apollo podcast: Amanda Levete
Thomas Marks talks to architect Amanda Levete about the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by her practice AL_A
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Your chance to win ‘Sargent: The Watercolours’ by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray (Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Acquisitions of the month: June 2017
A huge collection of Diane Arbus photographs heads for Ontario, and the Getty finally gets its Parmigianino
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Your chance to win ‘Ravilious and Co: The Pattern of Friendship’, by Andy Friend (Thames & Hudson)
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art world responds to the UK election; Michel Houellebecq discusses his ‘French Bashing’ exhibition; and is Kate Middleton a skater girl now?
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Your chance to win ’Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting’ (Yale University Press)
Acquisitions of the month: May 2017
A Delacroix heads for Munich, and a number of major museums have significantly expanded their photography holdings
‘The Cloaca are machines, they’re animals, they’re us’
Wim Delvoye discusses merde-making machines, mass production, pig tattoos and Europe’s messy future
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An exhibition of Eric Gill’s art in Ditchling raises questions about how far we can separate art from life. Should biography shape our understanding of an artist’s work?
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Your chance to win ‘Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World’ by Joanna Marschner with David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford (eds.)
The Apollo podcast: Charles Saumarez Smith
Thomas Marks talks to the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy about his new book on East London
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Your chance to win ‘Picturing America: the Golden Age of Pictorial Maps’ by Stephen J. Hornsby
Acquisitions of the month: April 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from the final portrait of the 1st Duke of Wellington, to a rare Modigliani sculpture
The man on a mission to re-energise Murano glass
‘Letting Murano glass die is like allowing the Colosseum to collapse’
The Apollo podcast: Adam Lowe
Thomas Marks talks to the founder of the Factum Foundation about how digital technologies are conserving world heritage
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Do museum directors need curatorial experience?
It takes all manner of skills and qualities to run a top institution – or at least to do it well.
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Carol Bove on Alberto Giacometti, the Venice Biennale, and being ‘spiritually Swiss’
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Your chance to win ‘Stanley Spencer: Looking to heaven’, edited by John Spencer (Unicorn Press)
Acquisitions of the month: March 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from rare Fabergé animals in London to Canadian masterpieces in Ottawa
Eight art events to get to in April
Highlights include shows devoted to Botticelli, Balla, and Walker Evans, and Tate’s ‘Queer British Art’ exhibition
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