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The art world put its weight behind Biden. Will he repay the favour?
The new administration is better disposed to the arts, but that doesn’t mean there’ll be more federal funding
Robert Jenrick wants to keep the mob at bay. So why is he leading it with a pitchfork?
The UK government’s proposal to protect every monument in sight is a kneejerk response that will have ridiculous consequences
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Podcast
The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Mohamad Hafez
The Syrian-born, US-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his sculptural dioramas of cities ravaged by war – and offers a message of hope for the future
Art news daily
The week in art news – Amnesty report points to massacre in Ethiopian town of Axum
Plus: Swiss museums reopen next week, while UK museums must wait until May | Experts confirm message on The Scream is by Munch | and National Gallery in London and Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin update Hugh Lane bequest deal
Experts confirm Edvard Munch wrote secret message on The Scream
Experts have confirmed that the writing on The Scream is in Munch’s handwriting
The week in art news – head of Indianapolis Museum of Art resigns after controversial job ad
Plus: National Gallery in London launches design competition to rethink Sainsbury Wing, and more stories
Reviews
Vein glorious: an epic history of marble, reviewed
For millennia, marble was taken to be a gleaming reflection of the heavens – and, in Fabio Barry’s new book, it regains its divine mysteries
Of Meissen men – the brittle business of porcelain
An ambitious new book scrutinises the production of ‘white gold’ in Europe – from its early alchemical mysteries to your everyday crockery
12 Days
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For each of the 12 days of Christmas we have asked Apollo staff and contributors to select the artistic highlights that they are most eagerly anticipating in 2014. The Muse Room will return with its regular daily blogs on 7 January 2014. From all of us at Apollo, happy new year!
Finally, I can’t wait to see what director Mike Leigh makes of J.M.W. Turner in his biopic of the artist (due September 2014). Leigh did a remarkable job with the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan in Topsy-Turvy (1999). But how will the light and landscape of late Turner translate to the big screen?
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