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Articles in Oct 2004 issue of Apollo

• National Gallery
• The Fine Art Society
  by Susannah Woolmer
• A Raphael goose turns into a swan: in 1970 it was discovered that the version of Raphael's Portrait of Julius II in the National Gallery, London, long thought to be a copy, was in fact the original. In the September issue, Cecil Gould, then the gallery's
• Cities of Culture: what use is the accolade 'European City of Culture'? Not much, when that city continues to neglect its historic buildings, as Glasgow so shamefully has. Will Liverpool do better?
  by Gavin Stamp
• Albertina
• Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Forthcoming USA fairs
• A major battle has been launched to save the fourteenth-century Macclesfield Psalter from export from England
  by Samson Spanier
• Damien Hirst sells the contents of Pharmacy as the eagerly anticipated second Frieze Art Fair gets under way in London. In contrast, New York offers antiques, and Madrid, Spanish Old Masters
  by Susan Moore
• Was there a George VI style? Now that the story of British architecture and design in the twentieth century is less often distorted by over-emphasis on the modern movement, the variety and quality of what was produced can be appreciated afresh. Alan Power
  by Alan Powers
• Conservative realism, high glamour and war-time brutality vied for attention at Gleneagles in September, while Aboriginal art sold for record prices in Australia
  by Susan Moore
• Shock of the Old: an exhibition on the celebrated Victorian designer Christopher Dresser has just moved from the Cooper-Hewitt to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Martin Levy assesses its presentation of a man often claimed as a proto-modernist
  by Martin Levy
• Stockspring Antiques
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The August edition of Apollo reported that Grayson Perry, who won the Turner Prize with his ceramic pots that depict narrative scenes, had created a new piece in which a figure exclaims, 'Pottery is the new video'
  by Samson Spanier
• Antiques in New York
• Raphael and Siena: on the occasion of the opening of the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery, London, Tom Henry, one of its curators, examines the evidence for a neglected aspect of the artist's career, his connections with Siena, and in particular
  by Tom Henry
• Archaeology from a space craft: radar specialists at NASA have transformed archaeologists' views of Angkor in Cambodia. Samson Spanier reports on the remarkable discoveries being made from space
  by Samson Spanier
• Sickert's human canvas: Peyton Skipwith reviews Abbot Hall's searching exhibition of Sickert's painting, the most significant for over a decade
  by Peyton Skipwith
• The Adam Gallery
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The Coltswold Antique Dealers' Association Exhibition Fortnight
• New discoveries in Madrid
• Fit for a queen: a secretaire made by Jean-Henri Riesener for Marie-Antoinette's private apartments at Versailles in 1780 has recently been conserved by the Wallace Collection, using innovatory techniques developed by the museum. As Yannick Chastang and E
  by Yannick Chastang
• A man of infinite taste: the Met has bagged a major treasure in the Pierre Matisse collection
  by Louise Nicholson
• Corning Museum of Glass
• 'Amadeo Modigliani, Jew': Modigliani is set in his Jewish context in an exhibition that has just moved from New York to Ontario
  by David Platzer
• Frances Kyle Gallery
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The Macclesfield Psalter in the age of mechanical reproduction
  by Michael Hall
• The teaching collection of works on paper used by John Ruskin, Slade Professor of Art at Oxford, has been reassembled on the internet, and will be explorable from 20 October
  by Samson Spanier
• English decorative arts before 1720: strength at the top of this market suggests new specialist collectors are replacing the traditional manor-house owner who buys to furnish
  by Samson Spanier
• Hayward Gallery
• The Irish Face: Redefining the Irish portrait: Desmond Shawe-Taylor asks why a thoughtful examination of the political context of Irish portraiture has been marred by simple minded nationalism
  by Desmond Shawe-Taylor
• Chelsea Book Fair
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Rijksmuseum
• Will the Victoria and Albert Museum get its hands after all on the fifteenth-century renaissance roundel from Mantua depicting Vulcan, Mars and Venus that it failed to secure at auction last year?
  by Samson Spanier
• Metropolitan Museum
• The Georgian Parish Church: 'Monuments to Posterity': M.H. Port welcomes a fundamental contribution to the study of Georgian church architecture
  by M.H. Port
• Kaikodo
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The Battle of Britain Monument—a public sculpture for the Embankment in London—is now certain to be unveiled between May and September 2005
  by Samson Spanier
• The Louvre, the great bastion of comme il faut art history, has succumbed to contemporary art
  by Samson Spanier
• Decorative art takes centre stage at the Walker; this month sees the official opening of the Craft and Design Gallery, at the Walker, Liverpool, the museum's first dedicated space for decorative art. Robin Emmerson introduces a selection of the recent acq
  by Robin Emmerson
• Whitney
• The King's Artists, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture, 1760-1840: Francis Russell welcomes an authoritative study of the role of the Royal Academy in British life during its first eighty years
  by Francis Russell
• Trinity Fine Art Ltd are exhibiting a mouthwatering selection of Old Master paintings, drawings, sculpture and furniture
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The shortlists of several art prizes have just been announced
  by Samson Spanier
• Why steal a masterpiece? The brutal theft in August of two world-famous paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo raises the question of why great works of art are stolen, since they are virtually impossible to sell. Martin Bailey proposes some answers, and
  by Martin Bailey
• Art Cologne
• The Goldsmith's Fair, now entering its 22nd consecutive year, is showcasing the latest collections of ninety of Britain's foremost designer silversmiths and jewellers
  by Susannah Woolmer
• A rather special exhibition of paintings and drawings by David Bomberg is being held at the Museo Joaquin Peinado, Ronda, from 1 until 31 October
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Louvre
• A five-year travelling exhibition of over eighty examples of modern silverware, loaned from the collection of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, begins this month at the Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
  by Susannah Woolmer
• La Sagrada Familia
• Members of the Apollo team recently found themselves battling with art's cognoscente and members of the public in a mock auction at Christie's
  by Samson Spanier
• Two spectacular jewellery shows provide an opportunity to compare Indian courtly magnificence with an American preference for keeping it simple
  by Louise Nicholson