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February 2014
This February, Apollo features articles on the history and resurgent popularity of the Wunderkammer, the digital technology unearthing a villa near Pompeii, and John Craxton’s cover designs for the books of his lifelong friend Patrick Leigh Fermor. Plus Zoe Pilger meets artist Richard Deacon ahead of his retrospective at Tate Britain and Susan Moore talks to Michael Steinhardt about his outstanding collection of antiquities.
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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 museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
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
The dealer who launched Picasso
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Were the Impressionists really so shocking?
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir