Past Issue
March 2018
• TEFAF preview
• An interview with Joan Jonas
• The Character Heads of Messerschmidt
• Thrones through the ages
• The Caravaggisti at the Centraal Museum
Plus: The politics of national museums, Michelangelo at the Met, Minnette de Silva, and Robert Wilson in Minneapolis
Inside this issue
Past issues
November 2020
Denzil Forrester | Musée Cernuschi | Augustus Saint-Gaudens
October 2020
Cycle racing | British Museum | Tunisia
September 2020
Belle époque | Nalini Malani | Palazzo Schifanoia
July/August 2020
Eric Fischl | Andrea Palladio | John Cage
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Touching distance – the fine art of keeping apart
The encounter between Mary Magdalene and the risen Christ has challenged the artists who have chosen to represent it
‘The Man Who Laughs’ is a cautionary tale about grinning and bearing it
The inspiration behind Batman’s Joker and many a monster movie, Paul Leni’s ‘The Man Who Laughs’ is a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema
The joyful art of Julio Le Parc
The Argentinian-born artist, now in his tenth decade, reflects on a life devoted to trying new things
What’s left of Thomas Becket? – ‘The Book in the Cathedral’, reviewed
Christopher de Hamel argues that a book of psalms in a Cambridge library is the only surviving relic of the murdered archbishop