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Articles in Nov, 2004 issue of Apollo

• Fine Art Society
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Angels and elephants: Rosemary Crill examines two remarkable embroidered Indian textiles at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, a Gujarati floorspread, probably dating from the early eighteenth century, and a rare Bengali quilt that may have been made in the late
  by Rosemary Crill
• Siegfried Bing
• 'Next year in Jerusalem!': a Haggadah at Blickling Hall: a spectacular Haggadah, written and illuminated by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in 1739-40, is one of the most remarkable treasures in the library at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Emile Schrijver discsuss
  by Emile Schrijver
• Spry but serious: an exhibition on Constance Spry at the Design Museum, London, has been bitterly criticised for triviality by some of the museum's trustees. Tim Richardson argues that it should instead be congratulated for its thoughtful approach to an u
  by Tim Richardson
• Royal Exchange Art Gallery
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The best was hotly pursued, securing record prices, but there was little interest in the rest from buyers at the September Asian Art sales in New York
  by Susan Moore
• Stubbs and the Horse
• A uniquely well-preserved photographer's studio acquired by the National Trust in 2002 has opened in Liverpool
  by Samson Spanier
• 2004 Ad
  by Samson Spanier
• Partridge Fine Arts
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Two National Trust houses have recently had Victorian aspects restored
  by Samson Spanier
• Captain Cook's long journey to elysium: the monument to Captain James Cook in the garden at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, has recently been restored. Richard Wheeler explains why it was erected not in the garden's Elysian Fields, but on an island in the Styx
  by Richard Wheeler
• The Chambers Gallery
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Chelsea Book Fair
  by Susannah Woolmer
• 'The writer in the garden'
• Birmingham's only surviving courtyard of back-to-back houses, built 1803-31 to accommodate a growing working population, opened this summer, after being acquired by the National Trust in March
  by Samson Spanier
• Galerie Tamenaga
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Take a chair: for his latest exhibition, Hugh Buchanan has depicted furniture by Robert Adam at Osterley and Syon. Eileen Harris examines the remarkable sympathy between architect and artist
  by Eileen Harris
• Spring 2005 Fine Art and Antiques Fair
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Trinity Fine Art Ltd
  by Susannah Woolmer
• 'Cutting Edge Heritage'
• National Trust acquisitions 2003-2004: Christopher Rowell reviews a year which saw many major successes achieved by the National Trust's policy of acquiring indigenous contents for its houses—but also a few significant losses
  by Christopher Rowell
• This month the National Trust publishes the second volume of the catalogue of its 1,500 British portrait miniatures
  by Samson Spanier
• Asian art: at 'Asian Art in London' this month, a phenomenal range of objects is on show—but art from China will sell best, thanks to a rise in Chinese collectors
  by Philippa Scott
• Paris Photo
• The silver at Dunham Massey, one of the largest country-house collections in its original setting, has been re-displayed
  by Samson Spanier
• Portrait of the collector as a young man: for the June 1987 issue Gervase Jackson-Stops wrote a profile of the scholar and collector Sir Brinsley Ford
  by Gervase Jackson-Stops
• Suffolk House Antiques
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Nicholas Penny
• The Museum of Modern Art reopens on 20 November after being closed for over two years. Its new galleries, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, are a triumph: a brilliant justification of designing from the inside out
  by Louise Nicholson
• 2004 Ad
• The country house Cragside in Northumberland has also recaptured its Victorian heyday, in this case thanks to the National Trust's recent acquisition of two pictures that used to hang there
  by Samson Spanier
• Ancient exempla at Kingston Lacy: Amanda Bradley discusses two Venetian paintings purchased in 1849 by William Bankes for installation on the library ceiling at Kingston Lacy, Dorset. Their attribution, subject matter and provenance present several conund
  by Amanda Bradley
• 'The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso'
• Gerald Peters Gallery
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The curse of Palladio: as the Raymond Erith exhibition at the Soane Museum makes clear, the interesting question is not 'classical or modern?' but 'good or bad architecture?
  by Gavin Stamp
• Scholarship in trust
  by Michael Hall
• The 22,000 items in the collection at Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds are being moved back into the building from storage this month, in preparation for the house's re-opening at Easter next year
  by Samson Spanier
• Reinventing Culzean: between 1973 and 1983 the National Trust for Scotland made great changes to the interiors of Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, in order to emphasise the work by Robert Adam. Ian Gow, the Trust's curator, explains why many of those alterations
  by Ian Gow
• Caroline Wiseman Modern Art
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Gauguin, Modigliani and Kandinsky dominate New York, while the diverse events of Asian Art week in London are complimented by remarkable sales of Pre-Raphaelite and Bloomsbury Group art
  by Susan Moore
• Modern British Art at Pallant House Gallery
• The King's Bed and its furniture at Knole: this rare and magnificent seventeenth-century state bed and its accompanying furniture were probably made in Paris for the Duke of York, later James II. Christopher Rowell examines new evidence about their histor
  by Christopher Rowell
• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fans
• Les Enluminures
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Gerard ter Borch
• The aviary at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, has been restored to its late-nineteenth century form, as envisaged by Ferdinand Rothschild, who commissioned it in 1889
  by Samson Spanier
• 2004 Ad
  by Lucian Harris