JANUARY 2022 VOLUME CXCV No– 704

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Cover Untitled #4D (detail), 2009, Howardena Pindell (b. 1943), mixed media on paper collage, 17.8 × 25.4cm. Courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery See feature on pp.34–41

APOLLO JANUARY 2022

15 Editor’s Letter 16 Agenda

January highlights 19 Letter

Sophie Barling is dazzled by a display of Kazakh gold in Cambridge 23 Diary

Rachel Cohen goes in search of award-winning artists in Chicago 26 Architecture

Gillian Darley on the legacy of New Towns in the UK 28 Inquiry

Michael Prodger considers how the Courtauld and Warburg Institutes have shaped the field of art history 32 Winter Show Preview

Emma Crichton-Miller selects her highlights of the New York fair p. 34

Features 34 In the Abstract

Howardena Pindell talks to Jonathan Griffin about her long career of painting and protest – and the points where they overlap 42 Out of the Past?

Daniel Trilling considers how the new Humboldt Forum in Berlin is reckoning with the colonial history of Germany 50 Boy Wonders

By dressing his subjects up like Van Dyck’s, Thomas Gainsborough created an intriguing kind of youth portrait, writes Juliet Carey 56 Holding Steady

William Dunbar on the medieval Christian art in the Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography in Georgia

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