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Articles in Dec, 2004 issue of Apollo

• Bridget Riley
• As APOLLO'S review of museum acquisitions of 2004 went to press, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it had bought a panel by Duccio
  by Samson Spanier
• Lartigue: Album of a Century
  by David Platzer
• Connoisseurs and cheapskates
  by Michael Hall
• Acquisiition of the year: The National Gallery, London The Madonna of the Pinks
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has shelved its Caravaggio exhibition scheduled for 2005
  by Samson Spanier
• The making of Raphael: David Ekserdjian reviews the ambitious, eagerly awaited exhibition devoted to the young Raphael, at the National Gallery, London
  by David Ekserdjian
• Two museum curators have criticised the rise in the transportation of delicate works of art that may be damaged in the process
  by Samson Spanier
• In October there was strength in all aspects of the market, from Chinese wares to French decorative arts—but even by these standards the Damien Hirst sale was unrivalled
  by Susan Moore
• Pieter Claesz : Master of still life in the Golden Age
• Personality of the year: Mikhail Piotrovsky, director, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
  by Joanna Pitman
• Around the galleries: London's dealers demonstrate their Christmas spirit with some inspirational festive exhibitions
  by Susannah Woolmer
• La Galerie d'Apollon
• Turner in situ: the Tate's 'Turner and Venice' at the Museo Correr provides a remarkable opportunity to see these works in the city where they were made
  by Eric Shanes
• The Mitchell Prizes for art history were awarded last month at the National Portrait Gallery, London
  by Samson Spanier
• Sibling rivalry: Susannah Woolmer examines the complex, contrasting lives and art of Gwen and Augustus John, as presented in a thought provoking exhibition at Tate Britain
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Museum opening of the year: The Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna: the restoration by Prince and Princess Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein of the family's Garden Palace in Vienna as a setting for works of art from the Liechtenstein collection has provided
  by Andrew Wilton
• A man with 'buzz': in the July 1964 issue Denys Sutton looked back on the life and writings of the American critic James Gibbons Huneker
  by Denys Sutton
• Vivian Davies
• 'Palmbeach 3', a contemporary art fair, takes place 14-15 January in Florida
  by Samson Spanier
• Is the coffee-table book doomed? Michael Hall's choice of art books for Christmas suggests that this season publishers have invested more in the text than in lavish production values
  by Michael Hall
• Art Basel Miami
• The world in St Louis: Phillip Prodger surveys the extraordinary range of art shown in the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1904 World's Fair, perhaps the last gasp of the great nineteenth-century salon exhibitions
  by Phillip Prodger
• The hype and glamour of the string of soirees that accompanied London's Frieze Art Fair have paid off
  by Samson Spanier
• A bronze lover's feast: James David Draper luxuriates in the textures—and original scholarship—of the Frick's well displayed exhibition of the Quentin Foundation's sculpture
  by James David Draper
• Perhaps the most spectacular—certainly the most expensive—piece of furniture ever sold is being offered in London. In New York, meanwhile, a large Roman cameo and a dazzling Sargent are the star lots
  by Susan Moore
• Western antiques: the past year has seen a concerted effort by auction houses and dealers to put past troubles in the market behind them, and concentrate on well-provenanced objects of high quality
  by Heather Russell
• Architecture Gallery
• Exhibition of the year: 'illuminating the Renaissance: the Triumph of Flemish manuscript painting in Europe' at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Royal Academy, London
  by Christopher de Hamel
• The city proclaims its fashion credentials in two excellent exhibitions, and fights for a park thirty feet in the air
  by Louise Nicholson
• 'Portuguese ceramics from the 16th to 20th century'
• 'Palpitating beauty': Julian Treuherz assesses the exhibitions inspired by the centenary of G.F. Watts's death
  by Julian Treuherz
• Susan Whitfield
• The People's Hero: Millais's The rescue and the image of the fireman in nineteenth-century art and media: J.E. Millais's celebrated painting can be best understood in the rich context of Victorian depictions of firefighters, who first became popular heroe
  by John A. Walker
• Fear of death: why is the British legacy of funerary sculpture in public cemeteries so weak in comparison with Italy?
  by Gavin Stamp
• 2004 Ad
• How to collect: when the film critic Alexander Walker died in 2003 he bequeathed his collection of twentieth-century works on paper to the British Museum. An exhibition of them reveals how a collector of modest means can make a major impact
  by Samson Spanier
• The July APOLLO reported that the Centre Pompidou, Paris, is planning to open a museum outpost in China
  by Samson Spanier
• Private Lives in Renaissance Venice
  by Francis Ames-Lewis
• Museum acquisitions: acquisition of the year: the print collection of Ferdinand Columbus : a renaissance collector in Seville
  by Christian Rumelin
• 'Faces in the crowd'
• Landscapes and faery: in 1904 the Irish symbolist writer and artist AE held his first public exhibition of paintings, in Dublin. Diana Beale reconstructs its contents and assesses its importance
  by Diana Beale
• The export ban on the Macclesfield psalter, the exceptional English fourteenth-century manuscript that has been acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, has been extended until 10 February 2005
  by Samson Spanier
• Annunciation
  by Susannah Woolmer