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April 2017
This April, Apollo features articles on the influence of Ovid, Soviet propaganda porcelain, and how the Uffizi in Florence is being transformed by its new director. Jim Dine talks to Martin Gayford about his experimental printmaking, and Swiss sculptor Not Vital reflects on the art he collects with Susan Moore. Plus: Culture wars in Bosnia, and the genius of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson. Preview the issue below.
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Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
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Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
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Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
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Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
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The dealer who launched Picasso
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The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
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Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures