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Articles in March 2005 issue of Apollo

• Best sellers Yale University Press
• Francis Bacon: lost and found: Martin Harrison analyses the information that has recently come to light about paintings that Bacon destroyed, mutilated or radically altered. What do such incidents reveal about Bacon's attitude to his art?
  by Martin Harrison
• Around the galleries: enjoy African-American abstraction, Dan Flavin, Bonnard, Vuillard and Winston Churchill in an eclectic variety of exhibitions in New York and London
  by Susannah Woolmer
• A museum of African-American history and culture is to be built in Washington
• Roll up, roll up for Maastricht! The year's largest and best-known art fair is offering a Roman Paris, renaissance manuscripts, a Perugino, and, just for good measure, an unpublished Matisse
  by Susan Moore
• Sex in the imperial garden: an unpublished Chinese pillow book, or manual of love-making, in the Kinsey Institute is a remarkable version of a celebrated album without any erotic content painted in 1738 for Emperor Qianlong by the court painter Chen Mei,
  by Efrat El-Hanany
• UNESCO, the cultural arm of the United Nations, has raised around $4.5 million for preservation and restoration of Bam, the historic Iranian town that was damaged very severely during an earthquake in December 2003
• Crivelli—and more: Thomas Tuohy reviews a study of a favourite quattrocento painter that goes well beyond the conventional boundaries of a monograph
  by Tomas Tuohy
• The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie
  by Gertrud Seidmann
• Inspired patronage: art commissioned by English churches in the past fifty years has usually been dire, so any attempt to preserve the notable exceptions should be encouraged
  by Gavin Stamp
• Scientists have developed a 'connoisseurial' computer that can distinguish between different hands in a single painting
• The Delli brothers: three Florentine artists in fifteenth-century Spain
  by Carmen C. Bambach
• A crisis of identity
  by Tim Knox
• A noble gesture: Tate Britain has succeeded in making sense of 50 years' worth of Anthony Caro's sculpture
  by Samson Spanier
• The Architect King: George III and the Culture of Enlightenment
  by Giles Worsley
• Droit de suite: a pointless, harmful tax
  by Michael Hall
• Simplicity and richness: the Royal Academy's first exhibition of Islamic art for over seventy years is a sumptuously beautiful blockbuster
  by Philippa Scott
• Flat but not squashed: Donatello's Ascension is the centrepiece of a rewarding exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute on low-relief carving in the early renaissance
  by Michael Hall
• Out of the shadows: a thoughtful show at the Ashmolean Museum should do much to bring the circumspect Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter Alfred William Hunt the recognition he deserves
  by Christopher Wood
• Continental ceramics: ranging from Italian maiolica to German and French porcelain, this traditional area of collecting has been revitalised over the past five years by discriminating new collectors, as Angela von Wallwitz describes
  by Angela von Wallwitz
• Illumination from Books of Hours
  by Martin Harrison
• Scandal at the Biennale: in an article in the July 1966 issue, Hugh Honour looked back at the early days of the Venice Biennale
  by Hugh Honour
• Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia
  by Charlotte Gere
• London news: the newest curator on the London art scene is the British Broadcasting Corporation. Samson Spanier tunes in at Tate Britain and the British Museum
  by Samson Spanier
• Sissinghurst and strawberry fields: despite some eccentricities and errors, the British Library's exhibition of gardens and gardening in books and manuscripts is richly rewarding
  by Tim Richardson
• A portrait by Rubens of his son Frans: a drawing by Rubens of the eldest son from his second marriage has recently been lent to the National Gallery of Scotland by the Duke of Sutherland. Christopher Baker explains its significance and traces its provenan
  by Christopher Baker
• The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has just reopened its Islamic galleries, which now include two-hundred new objects on display
• The Decanter: an Illustrated History of Glass from 1650
  by Gordon McFarlan
• Carving out modernity: an absorbing exhibition at the Soane Museum claims Thomas Banks as Britain's first 'modern' sculptor. As John Kenworthy-Browne explains, he was certainly exceptionally inventive
  by John Kenworthy-Browne
• New York news: a curatorial revolution is allowing museum visitors to see every object in the collection—all thanks to a publishing magnate of the 1920s and 30s. Louise Nicholson inspects the lines of shelves
  by Louise Nicholson
• 10 to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead