Apollo

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Articles in Nov 2006 issue of Apollo

• An Englishman abroad: Sir James Emerson Tennent in Ceylon, 1845-50: Robin Jones discusses a remarkable collection that reveals much about the impact of British taste on art and craft in Ceylon in the 19th century
  by Robin Jones
• Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer previews a selection of Asian art shows, both classical and contemporary, in London and New York
  by Susannah Woolmer
• 6,000 years of Asia's art: to mark the 40th anniversary of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, its curators present a selection of recent acquisitions by the museum, one of the world's greatest and most diverse collections of the continent's art. They
• A cell of good living: a new extension gives the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester the space to prove that its collection of modern British art is one of the finest in existence, as Peyton Skipwith discovers
  by Peyton Skipwith
• Freud's animals: a new painting of a horse by Lucian Freud shows that his genius for portraiture is not applied only to humans
• Chaste and symbolic: William Dyce's bicentenary exhibition in his native Aberdeen reveals a painter very different in character from the Pre-Raphaelites, whose precursor he is often said to be
  by Simon Poe
• Keeping an open mind: listed-building laws provide an essential opportunity for us to change our opinions of buildings that were unpopular when new
• Contemporary art that is not for sale
  by Michael Hall
• A body of sculpture: Cristobal Balenciaga wanted his clothes to be admired as sculpture. As Sanda Miller discovers, an exhibition in Paris curated by the current director of his fashion house reveals that he succeeded
  by Sanda Miller
• A simple sculptor or an apostle of perversion? The Royal Academy's spectacular assembly of Rodin's work helps to disentangle his genius from the gush of his admirers
  by Mark Stocker
• Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• Dear B.B.: Hugh Trevor-Roper's entertaining letters to Bernard Berenson reveal a great deal about attitudes to art history in post-war Oxford, and demonstrate the significance of Trevor-Roper's own approach to the subject
  by Robert Oresko
• A photographic archipelago in Arles: Russell Roberts reports from Rencontres d'Arles, one of the world's major festivals of photography. This year its artistic director was Raymond Depardon, whose experience as a documentary photographer was evident in th
  by Russell Roberts
• Portugal's contemporary art scene is flourishing with the help of private patronage, as Samson Spanier discovered when he visited the new Ellipse Foundation
  by Samson Spanier
• Stately—and desolate: Tim Richardson welcomes a lucid, scholarly guide to one of the most complex sites in English garden history
  by Tim Richardson
• Cardinals for starters: a review in the February 1987 issue of Philip Hook and Mark Poltimore's dictionary Popular 19th-century Painting led Graham Reynolds to ponder the mysteries of taste in art
  by Graham Reynolds
• Ceramics of Thailand's 'golden age'
  by Philip Courtenay
• Building with colour: Owen Jones's central significance to design and architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries is well explored in a new monograph
  by Kathryn Ferry
• Beauty in pursuit of pleasure: 19th-century Chinese export watercolours on pith depict a variety of idealised, attractive women. Ifan Williams traces the sources for these popular images, which appealed to western audiences as representations of the sophi
  by Ifan Williams
• Louise Nicholson visits the Neue Galerie's latest triumph: four recreated interiors designed by Josef Hoffmann
  by Louise Nicholson
• India's triumph: Asian Art in London week boasts an especially strong range of Indian art, from Chola bronzes to miniatures
  by Susan Moore
• Art to live with: Asian art offers rich opportunities for creating a serious collection. Louise Nicholson talks to four distinguished American collectors, whose passions range from Indian painting and Japanese decorative arts to cutting-edge contemporary
  by Louise Nicholson
• Spanish painting: from medieval masters to the turn of the century, the market for Spanish art is booming—but there are still undervalued areas
  by Samson Spanier