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October 2019
• The crowded scenes of William Hogarth
• Are curators getting enough credit?
• An interview with Kiki Smith
• Derek Jarman’s visions of England
Plus: How to show Rembrandt in his best light, previews of TEFAF New York Fall and Frieze Masters, and reviews of the Danish Golden Age in Copenhagen and Marlene Dumas’s take on Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
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Past issues
February 2025
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
January 2025
The art of divination | an interview with Jake Grewal | will the market recover in 2025?
December 2024
Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
November 2024
Japanese art at the MFA Boston | Christian Marclay | collecting haute couture
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