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July/August 2021
• The photographers who put West Africa in the frame
• The genius of Grinling Gibbons, 300 years on
• An interview with Mamma Andersson
• Flights of fancy: the Spanish Steps in Rome
Plus: the treasures of Lambeth Palace Library, a new model for restitution, a preview of Parcours des Mondes, five thousand years of Iranian art, and a century of baroque Italian set design
Inside this issue
Past issues
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
March 2021
Noël Coward | Gillian Wearing | Francis Bacon
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The Martian landscape is magical but mundane – though it would be a mistake to start taking it for granted
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