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January 2021
• The art of Patricia Highsmith
• Can historic houses tell more complicated stories?
• An interview with Maggi Hambling
• Is France keeping its promises on restitution?
Plus: Reviews of the Torlonia marbles in Rome, Anders Zorn’s paintings in The Hague, the creatures of Ray Harryhausen and 18th-century engravings of citrus fruit
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October 2024
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
September 2024
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
July/August 2024
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
June 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
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