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October 2017

Vol. 159 | No. 1375

Editorial

Painting in oil

VISITORS TO THE opening last month of the British Museum’s exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia were greeted by representatives of the sponsors, BP, together with banners explaining why the company was supporting the museum: ‘As modern-day adventurers in the resource-rich landscape of Siberia, we feel a deep affinity with the Scythians. They knew what they wanted, and they went out and got it.’

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Damien Hirst. Venice

VENICE IS A city that floats in time as well as place. In contrast to Rome, steeped in ancient remains, Venice lacks a classical origin – its Greco-Roman antiquities were imported rather than unearthed. Renaissance artists such as Titian created a fictional past for the city, imagining mythological scenes in the landscapes of the Veneto. It is apt, then, that Damien Hirst has made Venice the setting of Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable (to 3rd December), his own grandiose act of mythmaking and artistic renaissance. Ten years in the making, it is a wildly ambitious feat – a wholesale canon of fake history.

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    By Anne Greeley
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    The Art of Conservation XIII. Twentieth-century Italian conservators and conservation theory

    By Marco Ciatti
  • James S. Ackerman (1919–2016)

    By Deborah Howard
  • Chris Michaelides (1949–2017)

    By Graham Kent
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    Eighteenth-century Mughal paintings from the Swinton collection

    By J. P. Losty
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    Unpublished letters from John Singer Sargent to Jacques-Emile Blanche

    By Hadrien Viraben
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    Nicolas Poussin and the King’s mathematician

    By Gabriel Batalla-Lagleyre
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    Rococo in eighteenth-century Beijing: ornament prints and the design of the European palaces at Yuanming Yuan

    By Gauvin Alexander Bailey
  • Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen. By John Ayers

    By Rose Kerr
  • Christianity in Asia: Sacred Art and Visual Splendour. Edited by Alan Chong

    By Marjorie Trusted
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    By Milo Cleveland Beach
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    By Francesco Morena
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    By Aida Yuen Wong
  • Re-envisioning Japan: Meiji Fine Art Textiles. Edited by John E. Vollmer

    By Sharon S. Takeda
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    By Emilie Anne-Yvonne Luse
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    By Julian Freeman
  • Inner: The Collected Writings and Selected Interviews. By Sean Scully & Danto on Scully. By Arthur C. Danto

    By Joseph Masheck