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September 2021
• An interview with Sheila Hicks
• The Phillips Collection at 100
• At the restored Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
• Andrew Lloyd Webber on the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Plus: the art world’s sense-of-humour failure, a preview of TEFAF Online, the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico, Gustave Moreau at Waddesdon, and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
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Past issues
July/August 2021
Grinling Gibbons | Mamma Andersson | Lambeth Palace Library
June 2021
Peter Blake | Tourism in Italy | Bernardo Bellotto
May 2021
Michael Rakowitz | Narendra Modi | Daniel Spoerri
April 2021
Alice Neel | Charles Baudelaire | Antony Gormley
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In praise of Grinling Gibbons, the wizard of woodcarving
The sculptor took Restoration England by storm with his virtuosic woodwork
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With their miniature artistry and enigmatic personal histories, these striking prints are often more enticing than the volumes they’re found in
Do artists dress to impress?
In ‘What Artists Wear’, Charlie Porter casts an eye over the wardrobe choices of everyone from Barbara Hepworth to Jean-Michel Basquiat
Pulling power – the murky magic of magnet fishing
It’s the aquatic cousin to metal detecting – and an increasing number of devotees are casting off into rivers and canals in search of trash and treasure