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October 2022

Vol. 164 | No. 1435

Editorial

Royal monuments

After the funeral, the monument. In the case of the death of a monarch, especially a monarch of the stature of Queen Elizabeth II, there will be at least two national memorials. One of these is her tomb in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, every element of which had been decided before her death on 8th September. The other is a public statue, no detail of which has yet been announced as we go to press, in the week before the Queen’s funeral.

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Exhibition Review

The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist

When the German-born Winold Reiss (1886–1953) arrived in New York in October 1913, the year in which the ground-breaking Armory Show took place in the city, he expected to encounter Native Americans, an interest nurtured by watching Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and reading the popular novels of Karl May and James Fenimore Cooper at an early age.

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  •  Beaker.

    Ancient foreign glassware in Silla kingdom tombs

    By Ariane Perrin
  • Shield.

    Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury

    By Negar Sarah Rokhgar
  •  Detail of Kamandalu showing Arjuna and Subhadra.

    Imagery by Raja Ravi Varma on Raj Silver

    By Vidya J. Dehejia
  • The Staircase at the North End of the Long Gallery

    The Chamber Floor of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815–45

    By Stephen Conrad
  •  Installation view of Room 13 of the Musée de Cluny.

    A museum asserts its identity: the reopening of the Musée de Cluny

    By Alexandra Gajewski
  • Picasso–El Greco

    By Elizabeth Cowling
  • Medieval Treasures from the Glencairn Museum

    By Kerry Paul Boeye
  • Fit for a Queen: Symbols and Values of Sovereignty

    By Elena Woodacre
  • Silver City: 500 Years of Portsmouth’s History

    By Frances Parton
  • Between the Sheets: Turner’s Nudes

    By Jonathan Yarker
  • Aristide Maillol (1861–1944): The Quest for Harmony

    By Melanie Vandenbrouck
  • ‘Meistens grundiere ich mit Kreide’: Emil Nolde’s Maltechnik Emil Nolde: Meine Art zu Malen

    By Sean Rainbird
  • The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist

    By Timothy J. Standring
  • The National Museum of Norway

    By Charles Saumarez Smith