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Cover Self-portrait (detail), 1929, Doris Zinkeisen (1897–1991), oil on canvas, 107.2 × 86.6cm. National Portrait Gallery, London; © Estate of Doris Zinkeisen See feature on pp. 46–50

APOLLO MARCH 2021

15 Editor’s Letter 16 Agenda

March highlights 18 Forum

Has the UK government abandoned the arts sector? 21 Diary

Brooches became an art form in the 1960s, writes Dora Thornton 24 Letter

Sophie Barling visits the tent-tomb of Richard and Isabel Burton 28 Architecture

Timothy Brittain-Catlin on the fortress buildings of Louis Kahn 30 Inquiry

Phillip Prodger asks whether new technology should be used to colourise old photographs p. 46

Features 34 Face Value

Gillian Wearing talks to Martin Herbert about her unusually candid lockdown paintings 40 Animal Instinct

Daisy Hildyard on Francis Bacon’s obsession with beasts – and with the beastliness of human beings 46 Dressy Circle

The glamour of Noël Coward’s world masked a less divine reality, writes Stephen Patience 52 Domestic Arrangement

Kirsten Tambling considers how Queen Mary’s attentive collecting served the Royal Collection

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