JULY/AUGUST 2021 VOLUME CXCIV No– 699
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APOLLO JULY/AUGUST 2021
19 Editor’s Letter 20 Agenda
July/August highlights 22 Forum
Will unions make a difference at US museums? 25 Diary
Sophie Barling hymns the genius of Grinling Gibbons, 300 years on 28 Diary
Paul Basu on the challenges of confronting colonial collections 31 Letter
Madeleine Schwartz at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris 34 Architecture
William Aslet on the flights of fancy that are the Spanish Steps in Rome 36 Inquiry
Francis FitzGibbon proposes a model for assessing restitution claims
40 Parcours des Mondes
Susan Moore selects her highlights of the event p. 58
Features 44 Bible Storeys
Michael Prodger visits Lambeth Palace Library’s new home, in a tower overlooking the Thames 50 Looking Sharp
In their portraits of everyday life, post-independence photographers in West Africa could draw on a long tradition, writes Samuel Reilly 58 Surface Tension
Martin Herbert talks to Mamma Andersson about her deceptively calm paintings 66 Shell Suits
Indigenous nations have long used wampum belts as diplomatic tools, writes Ruth B. Phillips
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