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Articles in August, 2004 issue of Apollo

• James McNeill Whistler
• Colonial picturesque: emigration to Van Diemen's Land transformed John Glover, a competent British landscape painter, into a memorably poetic artist. Patrick McCaughey reviews a retrospective that elucidates his career and debates his attitude to Australi
  by Patrick McCaughey
• Around the Edinburgh galleries: to complement the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival, the city's galleries have mounted a spectacular array of exhibitions, ranging from the renaissance to the present day
  by Susannah Woolmer
• A casting of doubts on the professionalism of the Momart storage facility in London, which burnt down in May with the loss of hundreds of works of art, was the most controversial statement of the 'Conversations'
  by Samson Spanier
• Lee Bontecou
• The first renaissance centurion: the National Gallery of Scotland's new exhibition of Venetian renaissance art in Scottish collections includes a major rediscovery, a painting by Paris Bordon from Mount Stuart, Alexandra Jackson discusses its place in Ven
  by Alexandra Jackson
• Stefan Lochner: Image Making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne
  by Brigitte Corley
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• The most striking new work to make its debut at Basel was a ceramic pot by Grayson Perry at Victoria Miro's stand
  by Samson Spanier
• Impressions of Normandy: Susannah Woolmer visits an exhibition at the Bowes Museum which explores the relationship between two of the nineteenth century's greatest printers of seascapes, Boudin and Monet
  by Susannah Woolmer
• In carceri: in the past, prison architecture used the language of the Sublime to proclaim its mission. Today, we hypocritically prefer prisons to be anonymous
  by Gavin Stamp
• How Florence inspired the Pre-Raphaelites: Simon Poe visits a pioneering exhibition at the Uffizi that charts the influence of Florence on British and American artists in the later nineteenth century
  by Simon Poe
• Monte-Carlo Antiquites fair
• Childe Hassam
• Love triumphant—again: Eric Shanes explores the possible influence of a commemoration of World War I on one of Constantin Brancusi's last sculptures, the Borne frontiere
  by Eric Shanes
• The Irish Game: a True Story of Crime and Art
  by Michael Hall
• Market preview: highlights from the early twentieth century, as well as thirty-five paintings by Jack Vettriano, mark the most impressive ever Sotheby's sale of Scottish art, in Perthshire
  by Susan Moore
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  by Samson Spanier
• Treasured inheritance: six hundred years of Oxford college silver make a splendid and instructive exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum
  by Philippa Glanville
• News from New York: two newly-renovated museums in the boroughs offer Manhattanites an escape from the summer heat—and a nasty carpet
  by Louise Nicholson
• Visual puns and variable perception: Leonardo's Madonna of the Yarnwinder: in the second of two articles on Leonardo da Vinci, Larry J. Feinberg explains how the delight artist took in rebuses—visual puns—was part of a larger interest in the rel
  by Larry J. Feinberg
• Nicholas Charles Williams
• Rembrandt
• Early English cut glass: a new history
  by Andy McConnell
• Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner
  by Ian Sutton
• From York to Melbourne: this year's Summer Book and Education Feature brings to the attention of Apollo's readers new, rare and antiquarian books on the fine and decorative arts alongside several educational opportunities
  by Nigel McKinley
• The July issue of Apollo revealed that the Centre Pompidou, Paris, intends to create an outpost in China
  by Samson Spanier
• Tempers and egos of the art world clashed spectacularly at the fair's other new initiative, 'Art Basel Conversations', a series of colloquia sponsored by Bulgari jewellers that took place in a Richard Meier-cum-Buck Rogers space next to the fair
  by Samson Spanier
• Wicked in pink: an exhibition on one of the greatest of all couturiers, Elsa Schiaparelli, helps to answer the old question about fashion—art or craft?
  by Sanda Miller
• Market review: London sales in June revealed that tastes in pictures are changing, away from the decorative towards stronger, grittier paintings
  by Susan Moore
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Turbulence and tranquility: Tim Richardson reviews the new fountain in Kensington Gardens designed by Gustafson-Porter in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. It is a subtle and sensitive example of the current interest in water gardens by leading landscap
  by Tim Richardson
• Autumn books preview: a selection of forthcoming books on art and architecture
• The fair this year included an attempt to evade the cramped dimensions of the gallery booths in order to accommodate large works
  by Samson Spanier
• How Queen Mary collected Queen Charlotte: an exhibition currently at the Queen's Gallery, London, celebrates the collecting and patronage of Queen Charlotte alongside that of her husband, George III. That this is possible at all is largely thanks to the d
  by Charlotte Gere
• A great challenge for Scotland
  by Michael Hall
• Rumours flitted around the fair that its director, Samuel Keller, was seen entering a lavatory cubicle with a woman and another man
  by Samson Spanier
• Truth to nature: the Centre Pompidou reveals Penone to be a sensualist rather than part of the Arte Povera movement to which he tends to be attached
  by Samson Spanier
• Design after 1945: post-War design is still affordable—but the best pieces are commanding much higher prices as collectors demand rarity and good provenance
  by Samson Spanier
• Public Catalogue Foundation
• Two galleries that tell one story
  by Angus Stewart
• Grasping the World: the Idea of the Museum
  by Charles Saumarez Smith
• In search of Gauguin: in the August 1981 issue, Wilmon Menard published an interview he had with Somerset Maugham in the 1950s, in which the novelist recalled a visit to Tahiti in 1917, to carry out research on Gauguin
  by Somerset Maugham