News and comment from our April issue: Thomas Marks and John Curtis on the cultural desecration of Iraq; Don Quixote in NYC; plus, should the Kunstmuseum Bern have accepted the Gurlitt bequest?
Maggie Gray
Detail of the lion hunt frieze from the palace of Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC) at Ninevah, now in the British Museum
A round-up of recent news and comment from The Muse Room
Don Quixote takes centre stage at the Frick Collection this spring. The museum has taken two impressive 18th-century tapestries out of storage for a focused look at Charles Coypel’s once-famous interpretation of Cervantes’ novel. We asked curator Charlotte Vignon to tell us more.