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Articles in August 2005 issue of Apollo

• Gardening in a place of art: Kim Wilkie's design for the Victoria and Albert Museum's garden, opened last month, is simple and serene—yet manages to hold its own against the courtyard's overbearing architecture
  by Tim Richardson
• Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer previews highlights of Edinburgh in festival time and recommends realism in London
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Prices that protect and preserve
  by Harriet Bridgeman
• Alan Powers takes apart an ingenious piece of bookmaking on an explosive architect
  by Alan Powers
• Art of business: the Fleming Collection admirably defies fashion to show how large corporations—like all patrons—collect according to their individual character
  by Samson Spanier
• Time Out Florence and the Best of Tuscany
• Howard Coutts reviews an admirable survey of a factory that embodies the way porcelain was transformed from an aristocratic luxury into a middle-class essential
  by Howard Coutts
• Flying off the shelves: furniture was strongly in demand in London this summer, and spectacular new records have been set for ceramics in both Hong Kong and Paris
  by Susan Moore
• Bats and culture
  by Donald W. Larson
• New York news: as the city bakes in the heat, Louise Nicholson relaxes in the latest high-tech addition to the Bronx's best-kept secret, the Botanical Garden
  by Louise Nicholson
• The relaunch of the famous Blue Guide series prompted Michael Hall to compare its modernised and redesigned guide to Florence with the dizzying array of guidebooks to the city: does this classic still hold its own?
  by Michael Hall
• A study of Victorian stained glass in the south-west of England attempts to analyse who commissioned it, and their motives for doing so
  by Michael Kerney
• 'It's me looking at him looking at me': there is more than one way to achieve a likeness, as Martin Gayford describes in this vivid account of sitting to Lucian Freud for two portraits, one painted and one etched. Both are currently on show in the Freud e
  by Martin Gayford
• Cities, squares and courts: the restoration of Place Stanislas in Nancy is the occasion for a splendid exhibition on urban design in Enlightenment Europe
  by Robert Oresko
• Contemporary British silver: modern silver is elegant, timeless, and highly desirable, writes Susannah Woolmer, and some of the very best is being made in the UK. So why is it not getting the attention it deserves from the market?
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The Rough Guide to Florence
• The baptism of Christ new light on early El Greco
• Parental affection: the eighteenth century cult of sensibility rarely produced more universally affecting scenes than the images of childhood gathered in an exhibition that has just transferred from Bath to Kendal
  by Hugh Belsey
• Museums and Galleries of Florence
• The World Monuments Fund has published its 2006 list of the world's 100 most endangered sites
• OX skulls and flowers James Giles's glass: although now remembered largely for his decoration on porcelain, the glassware of James Giles was the most luxurious, fashionable and expensive of its time, In the second of two articles, Andy McConnell examines
  by Andy McConnell
• Guinness isn't good for you: Britain's best twentieth-century buildings may be listed, but cynical, greedy corporations are still finding ways to demolish them—and more than architecture is at stake
  by Gavin Stamp
• Van Gogh's ear
• Art, class and horses
  by Michael Hall
• Florence
• 'The Fountain of Youth' a forgotten star of the 1845 salon: William Haussoullier's masterpiece, 'The Fountain of Youth', was eulogised by Baudelaire in his review of the 1845 Salon but then disappeared into obscurity in England, Graham Reynolds—who b
  by Graham Reynolds
• Can you knit? In two articles in January and February 1963 entitled 'Some Notes for an Obituary', W.G. Constable, first director of the Courtauld Institute, recalled his days at the Slade School of Art, where Henry Tonks introduced him to Wilson Steer and
  by W.G. Constable
• 10 to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• Florence in Detail: A Guide for the Expert Traveller
• Making art work on the factory floor
  by Susan Moore
• London news: technology and new laws may reduce art crime, but the most successful frausters can fool even experts, as Samson Spanier discovered at a recent conference
  by Samson Spanier
• Exquisite and alluring: in an exhibition at the home of his major patron, Rex Whistler emerges as a supremely talented draughtsman, with a special talent for portraying children, writes John Jolliffe, who at the age of eight sat for Whistler for a paintin
  by John Jolliffe
• Holbein in close-up: the techniques that allowed Holbein to achieve his astounding naturalism are analysed in this sumptuously illustrated account of his work in England
  by Karen Hearn
• The lot of Edvard Munch is improving, after the theft of The Scream and the Madonna from the Munch Museum in Oslo last year
• Making war on society: a well-mounted Kienholz exhibition at Baltic in Gateshead compensates for the prolonged British neglect of this powerful, provocative sculptor
  by Eric Shanes
• Thomas Tuohy discusses the latest volume of the catalogue of the National Gallery, London—one that answers more questions than most scholars ask
  by Thomas Tuohy
• Turner's vanishing boat
  by Eric Shanes
• The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, opens on 6 August
• Sculpted colour: although regarded as a classic modern artist in his native Italy, Rodolfo Arico has never gained the international reputation he deserves, writes Corinna Lotz. Four exhibitions this year, in London, Darmstadt, Hanau and Milan, may well ch
  by Corina Lotz
• A selection of Gwen John's writings is notable for what it does not reveal about this elusive artist
  by Angus Stewart