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Cover Lake Thun with Symmetrical Reflections, 1909, Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918), oil on waxed, relined canvas, 67.3 × 92cm. Musées d’art et d’histoire de Gèneve. See feature on pp. 58–64 Pho

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13 Editor’s Letter

Material gains 14 Agenda

April highlights 16 Forum

Have museums been too generous with naming rights? 21 Diary

Laurence Kanter on staging a Leonardo exhibition 24 Letter

Gabrielle Schwarz in Marrakech 26 Architecture

Douglas Murphy on Decimus Burton’s work at Kew Gardens 29 Q&A

Christiane Baumgartner discusses the art of woodcut 34 Inquiry

Ben Fino-Radin on the conservation of video art p. 38

Features 38 Drawing Lessons

Attilio and Ursula Gadola show Susan Moore their collection of Italian Old Master drawings 46 Lost Property

Emilie Bickerton talks to Christian Boltanski about time, chance and repetition 52 Back to the Land

Rosemary Shirley and James Wilkes on the politics of ruralism in modern British art 58 Making Parallels

Martin Oldham considers what the centenary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death means for Geneva’s museums 66 Striking Poses

Sussan Babaie explores tradition and modernity in 19th-century Iranian portraiture

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