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October 2012

Vol. 154 | No. 1315

Editorial

Old versus new in the Berlin museums

The Berlin Picture Gallery was dealt a rough hand by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. Not only did it suffer the ravages of war and spoilation, but the collection was also dispersed from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum on the Mus­eum Island. After the war what had survived was torn asunder by the division of the city. Some of the old-master paintings left in the East were eventually returned to their battered old home, renamed the Bode-Museum in 1956 to shake off associations with the imperial past. The West was fortunate in landing the more significant part of the collection.

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    Richard Hamilton’s ‘Chiara & chair’

    By Fanny Singer

    A discussion of Richard Hamilton's late digital paintings ahead of the exhibition Richard Hamilton: The Late Works at the National Gallery, London (10th October to 13th January 2013).

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    ‘In the same order, but . . . stronger than ever’: the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia

    By Colin B. Bailey

    A discussion of the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia following its recent opening at a new location.

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    Harold Gilman’s ‘Halifax Harbour’ (1918): a wartime Canadian episode

    By John Rolfe

    New documents and photographs of Harold Gilman's visit to Nova Scotia in 1918 to paint Halifax Harbour, after the explosion there on 6th December 1917.

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    War and peace at the Stockholm ‘Austrian Art Exhibition’ of 1917

    By Elizabeth Clegg

    New research on the 'Austrian Art Exhibition' in Stockholm in 1917.

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    The Russian section of the ‘Machine-Age Exposition’ (1927)

    By Anne Blood

    An exploration of the Soviet contribution to the Machine-Age Exposition in New York in 1927.