DECEMBER 2018 VOLUME CLXXXVIII No– 670
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15 Editor’s Letter 16 Agenda
December highlights 18 Forum
Should paintings be conserved in public? 21 Diary
Sue Canterbury on Ida O’Keeffe 23 Letter
Samuel Reilly in Lagos 26 Architecture Michael Hall on the stained glass of Charles Eamer Kempe 29 Q&A Haroon Mirza on sonic art,
solar power and minimalism
Cover Caresses (detail), 1896, Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921), oil on canvas, 50.5 × 150cm. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Photo: J. Geleyns Art Photography See feature on pp. 80–85
APOLLO DECEMBER 2018
34 Inquiry Daniel Trilling wonders if
‘political art’ is all that political 39 London Art Week Preview
Sophie Barling selects her highlights of the event
Apollo Awards 2018 44 Personality 48 Artist 52 Museum Opening 54 Exhibition 56 Book 58 Digital Innovation 60 Acquisition
Plus our survey of the year’s key acquisitions 70 Interview
Matthew Girling, Global CEO, Bonhams p. 48
Features 72 Fit for the Frick
Susan Moore talks to Sidney Knafel about his outstanding collection of French faience 80 Becoming Belgian
Tom Stammers on the mysterious paintings of Fernand Khnopff in fin-de-siècle Belgium 86 Moving Lines Jasmine Jagger on Edward Lear’s hopeless passion for the poetry of Alfred Tennyson p. 72
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