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Articles in March 2008 issue of Apollo

• Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• All the arts & every pleasure: Diana Scarisbrick talks to Alvar Gonzales-Palacios: the celebrated Cuban-born art historian, collector and author looks back over his 50-year exile in Italy, recalls the men who influenced him, and reflects on the art wo
  by Diana Scarisbrick
• Essence of the sublime: once considered the lowliest of genres, landscape, in the hands of Nicolas Poussin, achieved emotion, narrative power and, above all, multiplicity of meanings
  by Timothy J. Standring
• An Islamic symphony: David Khalili talks about his collection: Abu Dhabi is hosting the most comprehensive exhibition of Islamic art ever staged in the Middle East. It is drawn solely from the great collection of David Khalili, who explains to Susan Moore
  by Susan Moore
• Selling candy to the masses: last year Jeff Koons became the world's most expensive living artist. He talks to Martin Gayford about sex, pleasure, the need for self-acceptance—and an astonishing installation destined for Los Angeles
  by Martin Gayford
• Supreme storytellers: to mark the publication of Christopher White's catalogue of the Queen's later Flemish pictures, the Royal Collection has staged a splendid exhibition of selected masterpieces
  by David Howarth
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  by Susan Moore
• Putting art on the table: Suzanne and Norman Cohn's passion for commissioning contemporary crafts has led to their creatively staged dinner parties, where guests enjoy not only exquisite food but also elaborate 'table art'. Louise Nicholson was invited to
  by Louise Nicholson
• A skilful charmer: the first exhibition on Karel du Jardin reveals a versatile painter with a taste for the good life
  by Jonathan Lopez
• The master of old masters: Lucian Harris talks to Johnny Van Haeften: the doyen of London's Old Master dealers and a mainstay of Maastricht, Johnny Van Haeften talks about the state of the trade
  by Lucian Harris
• Looking after Liverpool: Liverpool is the New European capital of culture—a title it merits only because of the people who fought against its destructive redevelopment after the war
  by Gavin Stamp
• Leighton's art therapy: seize your last chance to see a touring exhibition of Lord Leighton's ravishing drawings
  by Simon Poe
• The finest the world can offer: three decades of Maastricht: the success of Maastricht's European Fine Art Fair is in large part thanks to the commitment and energy of the select group of dealers who serve as the fair's trustees and executive committee me
  by Isabel Andrews
• Market review: paintings with 'wall power' triumphed in Old Masters week in New York and a significant corporate collection went to the block in London
  by Susan Moore
• Golden trophies: the Metropolitan Museum's magnificent catalogue of its Dutch paintings reveals how this great collection was shaped by the tastes of America's Gilded Age plutocrats
  by Christopher Brown
• See art in the round: Maastricht's Sculpture Highlights fair: this month visitors to Maastricht have the bonus of the world's only specialist sculpture fair. Now in its second year, its offerings range from the ancient world to contemporary art
  by Isabel Andrews
• Asian art market: launched by the International Asian Art Fair, New York's Asia Week offers an extraordinary wealth of shows and auction sales
  by Susan Moore
• In the age of duchesses: Clare Finn applauds the latest volume in John Richardson's great biography of Picasso
  by Clare Finn
• Justice & mercy: the patron of Jan Van Eyck's Dresden Triptych: the identity of the patron portrayed in this celebrated masterpiece continues to elude scholars. Is he a crusader, a devotee of the Sacred Heart, or even Van Eyck himself? Peter Heath sug
  by Peter Heath
• Biedermeier furniture: collectors attracted to the modernity and fine craftsmanship of the best Biedermeier pieces will find that prices are temptingly modest
  by Claudia Herstatt
• A fear of strange beds: in the January 1976 issue, Eileen Harris described the career of Carlo Pellegrini. Although best known as Vanity Fairs caricaturist Ape', he longed to be a fashionable painter, like his friend Whistler
  by Eileen Harris
• Art nouveau at Sevres & the craftsman tradition in America: in the early 1900s, American writers and designers took a close interest in the remarkable art-nouveau designs that were being produced at Sevres. Gabriel P. Weisberg explores the impact of t
  by Gabriel P. Weisberg
• Art business: how do you insure a work that might—thanks to what it's made of—melt, disintegrate, or be eaten?
  by Ben Wright
• Old friends in fresh company: the new galleries for European painting at the Metropolitan: the opening of the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries has allowed the Metropolitan Museum to display virtually its entire holdings of 19th- and early-20th-century European
  by Nancy Ireson
• Around the galleries: unusual Dutch art and rare Chinese sculpture are on offer in Maastricht's galleries this month
  by Isabel Andrews
• Meditations for Lent: can museums promote greater understanding between faiths when by their very definition they separate art from the religious cultures that created it?
  by Michael Hall
• Drawings in Dresden: further newly identified works by Italian masters: Carmen C. Bambach continues her account of recent major discoveries in the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden with a discussion of some remarkable drawings by early-16th-century central Ita
  by Carmen C. Bambach
• The most arrogant artist in France: the impressive retrospective that has just transferred from Paris to New York presents Gustave Courbet in all his guises, from self-assertive hero and suffering martyr to stylish dandy
  by Jorg Zutter