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Articles in June 2006 issue of Apollo

• The mysterious Mr Cuenot: Tessa Murdoch presents new evidence about the identity of the carver who provided ornament and furniture for the 9th Duke and Duchess of Norfolk's London house, unveiled to rapturous acclaim in 1756
  by Tessa Murdoch
• In love with the sky: James Turrell has created a new skyspace at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Tim Richardson lifts up his eyes
  by Tim Richardson
• Contemporary design: David Linley will be exhibiting at this year's Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair for the first time. He gives Michael Hall an exclusive preview of the highlight of his stand: the Mozart Bureau
  by Michael Hall
• Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer previews the Brussels Ancient Art Fair and offers theatre tickets for those with a penchant for pointillism
  by Susannah Woolmer
• 'God, you are demanding': as the Museo Carlo Bilotti opens in Rome, the collector explains to Susan Moore why he prefers to commission rather than buy works of art, and describes the way artists from Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst have risen to his challenge
  by Susan Moore
• Asian ceramics: Samson Spanier disputes reports that the mainland Chinese are pushing up prices, and points out the best value in this vigorous market
  by Samson Spanier
• The slow death of a collecting culture
• 'My slash'd doublet, which I like very well': a richly illustrated study of the depiction of dress by Stuart artists juxtaposes literary and visual sources with rewarding results, despite some gaps
  by Sheila Russell
• London vs Paris: London's wealth of fairs and sales in June includes a lost Schiele, while Paris offers France's last great tribal collection
  by Susan Moore
• Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• Happy children—and an enormous acorn: the publication of Humphry Repton's long-lost memoirs reveals a man who was deeply contented as well as successful, despite his thwarted wish to become an architect
  by John Jolliffe
• Minimalist collecting: why have British museums in the past 50 years collected so little contemporary art?
  by Martin Gayford
• London news: this month the Queen will unveil a bust of herself at Windsor Castle to mark her 80th birthday. How does a royal portrait commission unfold in the 21st century? Samson Spanier asked the sculptor, Angela Conner
  by Samson Spanier
• Learning to see again: Giles Waterfield reviews a passionate polemic which argues that traditional ideas about art have destroyed our sense of visual wonder
  by Giles Waterfield
• Hidden culture: Liverpool's mantle as the 2008 European 'City of Culture' looks increasingly threadbare, as a church with a unique Italian baroque interior is closed, while 33m [pounds sterling] is spent on a new museum that will spoil a world heritage si
  by Gavin Stamp
• New York news: the most popular interior designer in mid-20th-century New York was a committed mutilator of antique furniture—as a new exhibition reveals
  by Louise Nicholson
• Designed to instruct or just designed? The Victoria and Albert Museum's new 'Sculpture in Britain' gallery contains plenty of familiar masterpieces, and a few lesser-known ones, whose quality overcomes some infelicities in the design and lighting
  by John Kenworthy-Browne
• Modern Berlin: in his column 'Letter from Berlin' in November 1928, Oscar Bie reviewed the city's new architecture—both retrogressive and progressive
  by Oscar Bie
• Arundel Castle ducal splendour revived: to open this special issue on the collections of the Dukes of Norfolk, John Martin Robinson explores the family's principal seat, Arundel Castle, Sussex, which is both a medieval monument and a magnificent Victorian
  by John Martin Robinson
• Antonello the Italian: James Beck argues that Antonello da Messina should not be allocated to any one school of artists if his genius, so evident in an exhibition in Rome, is to be appreciated
  by James Beck
• A passion altarpiece restored: a remarkable 15th-century Netherlandish altarpiece acquired by the 15th Duke of Norfolk in 1886 has gone on show at Arundel Castle, following a restoration that has revealed its original painted decoration. Kim Woods reviews
  by Kim Woods
• Impressionism in Puglia: Julian Treuherz reviews an exhibition comparing Giuseppe de Nittis and James Tissot, which inaugurates a new museum dedicated to the Italian impressionist
  by Julian Treuherz
• The collector Earl & his modern marbles: Thomas Howard & Francois Dieussart: Charles Avery elucidates the puzzles that surround the Earl of Arundel's patronage of the talented itinerant Flemish sculptor Francois Dieussart
  by Charles Avery
• Motion and magic: the inexplicably low profile of much 20th-century Italian art in the popular consciousness is being redressed by the Grand Palais in Paris
  by David Platzer