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April 2018

Vol. 160 | No. 1381

Editorial

Civilisation(s)

It is an uncomfortable thought – at least it is to the editor of this Magazine, who was allowed to stay up past his bedtime to watch the programmes – that only people over sixty can remember the enormous impact of Kenneth Clark’s BBC television series Civilisation when first broadcast, in 1969.

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Stephen Shore

IN HIS REVIEW of All the Meat You Can Eat, the 1971 exhibition of snapshots and found images by the American photographer Stephen Shore, the critic Gene Thornton acutely noted that the selection on view was ‘a healthy, if possibly somewhat unwelcome, reminder of the part that photography really plays in the world’.1

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  • mazotti.bellini

    In his father’s workshop: Giovanni Bellini’s paintings for the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice

    By Antonio Mazzotta
  • MITCHELL_austen

    The identity of the sitters in Joshua Reynolds’s group portrait in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

    By Charlotte Mitchell,Gwendolen Mitchell
  • montespan-faisant

    The kingdom of a mistress to the Sun King: Madame de Montespan’s apartment at Saint-Germain-en-Laye

    By Étienne Faisant
  • MASCOLO_Altman_Fig_03

    Benjamin Altman’s loans to the 1909 Hudson–Fulton exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    By Marco M. Mascolo
  • modig-portraits

    The Modigliani Technical Research Study. Modigliani’s Paris portraits 1915–17

    By Barbara Buckley,Michael Duffy,Allison Langley,Mina Porell
  • modig-nudes

    The Modigliani Technical Research Study. Modigliani’s painted nudes 1916–17

    By Aviva Burnstock,Isabelle Duvernois,Lena Stringari