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November 2019
• The Peabody Essex Museum makes waves
• An interview with Betye Saar
• Are museums doing enough for disabled visitors?
• Magic and manuscripts in medieval Ethiopia
Plus: a preview of Asian art in London and reviews of Charlotte Perriand’s designs at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the first biography of the painter Mary Beale and Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History
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April 2025
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue | An interview with Oliver Beer | How the Acropolis became modern
March 2025
How to give back looted objects | An interview with Alex Da Corte | Versailles enters the 21st century
February 2025
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
January 2025
The art of divination | an interview with Jake Grewal | will the market recover in 2025?
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Celia Paul faces the ghosts of her past
In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co.
The jazzy life of Gertrude Abercrombie
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How to give back looted objects
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections
Suzanne Treister’s tarot offers humanity a new toolbox
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