OCTOBER 2019 VOLUME CXC No– 679

Cover The Humours of an Election, 4: Chairing the Member (detail), 1754–55, William Hogarth (1697–1764), oil on canvas, 103 × 131.8cm. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London Photo: © Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum See feature on pp. 72–78

APOLLO OCTOBER 2019

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23 Editor’s Letter 24 Agenda

October highlights 26 Forum

Are curators geting enough credit? 29 Diary

C.D. Dickerson on Alonso Berruguete, the greatest sculptor of the Spanish Renaissance 33 Letter

Matthew Sperling at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona 35 Letter

Sophie Barling visits Napoleon’s country villa on Elba 40 Architecture

Timothy Brittain-Catlin on a neo-Palladian house in Cheshire 43 Q&A

Peter Suschitzky on how to show Rembrandt in the best light 46 Inquiry

Nicholas Thomas looks at how the purpose of museums has changed in recent years p. 72

52 TEFAF New York Fall Preview

Eve M. Kahn selects her highlights of the fair 62 Frieze Masters Preview

Melanie Gerlis selects her highlights of the fair

Features 66 Original Myths

Kiki Smith talks to Claire Barliant about repurposing fairy tales and why she likes to work in so many different media 72 Works in Progress

Clare Bucknell considers how William Hogarth depicted the turbulence of 18th-century life 80 Agent of Change

Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza tells Susan Moore about the works her foundation commissions from artists across the globe 88 Sight Seer

Richard Martin reflects on the films, paintings and writing of Derek Jarman, 25 years after the artist’s death

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