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THE INTERNATIONAL ART MAGAZINE

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Is abstract art relevant today?

– Cultural property in war zones

– Hiroshi Sugimoto. Hiroshi Sugimoto.. Hiroshi Sugimoto. artist as collector

Cover Statue A of the Riace Bronzes (detail) 5th century BC Greek Bronze, ht 205cm Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Reggio Calabria Photo: © Leemage/ Getty Images See feature on pp. 48–52

CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2015 VOLUME CLXXXI NO. 628

13 Editor’s Letter

The Art of Mystery 14 Agenda

What’s on around the world in February 18 Forum

Is the golden age of art schools over? 20 Diary

Maria Balshaw 23 Letter

Timothy Potts reports from Los Angeles 25 Art Outlook

Maggie Gray rounds up recent art news

Features 27 Rule Breaker

Lynda Benglis talks to Imelda Barnard about her retrospective at the Hepworth Wakefield 30 Monuments Men

How can we protect cultural property at risk across the world? 34 Seeing Like A Camera

Hiroshi Sugimoto talks to Thessaly La Force about how his art collection influences his work 40 The Romantic Custodian Susan Moore talks to Edward LaPuma about his collection of antiquities 48 Legacies of Loss

Peter Stewart goes in search of the lost art of the Greek bronze 54 Victorian Revivals

Ayla Lepine on the surge of interest in Victorian art in 21st-century London 60 Back To Square One

Rye Dag Holmboe considers the legacy of Malevich’s Black Square

Hiroshi Sugimoto: pp. 34–38

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