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Articles in Feb, 2008 issue of Apollo

• The Gods return: the future of Berlin's classical collections: Berlin's vast collection of Classical antiquities, centred on the Pergamon Museum, is undergoing its greatest transformation in over half a century. Its director, Andreas Scholl, talks to Clau
  by Claudia Herstatt
• Urban art is on the money
• More on Moffat: a rare exhibition of Curtis Moffat's remarkable interwar modernist photographs deserves to prompt further research into the career of this Anglo-American friend of Man Ray
  by Samson Spanier
• Directory of specialist consultants and valuers
• The Waste Land: C.R.W. Nevinson & London in the 1920s: the artist C.R.W. Nevinson makes an appearance in the first draft of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, written in 1921. As Gul Inanc and Michael Walsh explain, his presence there was appropriate: Nevi
  by Gul Inanc
• Emperor of fruit: the triumphant exhibition on Arcimboldo that has just transferred from Paris to Vienna is the first to set this extraordinary artist's work in the context of baroque court culture and collecting
  by David Platzer
• Directory of British art & antique dealers
• Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• Market preview: February sees hotly-tipped works from distinguished collections enter the market, an unprecedented charity auction of big-name contemporary art and a clutch of fairs, from London to Madrid
  by Susan Moore
• The spirit of Wyspianski: Nicholas Hodge visits a spectacular exhibition in Cracow commemorating the centenary of the death of Stanislaw Wyspianski—artist, designer, dramatist and Polish patriot
  by Nicholas Hodge
• Directory of international picture framers
• Around the galleries: February offers a host of fairs, and special exhibitions on Antony Donaldson and Alfred Kornberger
  by Isabel Andrews
• A pursuit of art in miniature: in the 18th century the 4th Duke of Marlborough formed a great private collection of classical gems, dispersed at auction in 1899. Sir John Boardman describes his quest to track down these 800 tiny masterpieces, now scattere
  by John Boardman
• Paris record mostly made of bacon
• Cartoon king? Huw Lewis-Jones enjoys a stylish account of the way caricaturists saw George III
  by Huw Lewis-Jones
• Correction
• Art business: despite France's international reputation for fine art and culture it has lagged far behind the USA and UK in the art market—something its new president is determined to change
  by Ben Wright
• Directory of international auctioneers of art & antiques
• Directory of conservators & restorers of art & antiques
• Art and the diplomats: international exhibitions are increasingly being used for political ends. Should we welcome art's growing role in diplomacy?
  by Michael Hall
• Flogging off the silver: the cost of the upkeep of old buildings is tempting churches to sell their fixtures—to no long-term benefit
  by Gavin Stamp
• A family affair: the Liechtenstein Museum's exhibition of one of Italy's greatest private family collections is a revelation
  by Robert Oresko
• Directory of international shippers of art & antiques
• The river city celebrates a classical past: the San Antonio Museum of Art's collection of antiquities is one of the finest in the USA, with particular strengths in Greek vases and Roman sculpture. Next month it reopens in a fresh installation. Its curator
  by Jessica Powers
• Market review: two auction records were set for a sculpture, and the only early copy of Magna Carta in private hands was bought for the National Archives in Washington
• Honour and display: drawing on a vast wealth of information about society in 15th-century Florence, Patricia Lee Rubin provides rich new contexts for the city's art
  by Thomas Tuohy
• To the letter: in an article on the Lugt Collection in the October 1976 issue, Petra Ten Doesschate-Chu found 'unexpected pleasures' in Frits Lugt's collection of autograph letters by artists
  by Petra Ten Doesschate-Chu
• You've got to laugh: do artists today know how to be funny? An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery argues that they do, even if the example of public art suggests it isn't always intentional
  by Simon Grant
• Enthroned in silver: silver furniture created for baroque courts makes a dazzling exhibition at Versailles
  by Philippa Glanville
• Directory of international art & antique dealers
• Battered but unbeaten: a new Getty acquisition: the J. Paul Getty Museum here unveils a Roman bronze oil container, or balsamarium, representing a veteran boxer. As Carrie Tovar explains, this is a powerful example of not only the cult of the athlete but
  by Carrie Tovar
• Asian art market: this month the Gulf's booming art market welcomes Art and Antiques Dubai, the region's first world-class international antiques fair
  by Susan Moore
• Dating the raindrops: Martin Bailey reviews the final volumes in the catalogues of the two most important collections of Van Gogh's drawings
  by Martin Bailey
• Woven into the collection: one of the world's pre-eminent textile designers, Jack Lenor Larsen is also a collector who has filled his home in East Hampton with ceramics and basketry of all periods. He talks to Louise Nicholson about his quest for the 'new
  by Louise Nicholson
• Antique firearms: judged as works of decorative art, the best quality historic guns offer outstanding value for collectors outside this specialist market
  by Roger Field
• Two elusive gardeners: Judith B. Tankard welcomes three books that provide the first detailed account of two of Britain's most admired garden designers, Harold Peto and Lawrence Johnston
  by Judith B. Tankard
• More than milordi: an exhibition opening in London this month reveals Pompeo Batoni to be an artist of great variety and intelligence as well as a portrait painter of supreme elegance
  by Patrick McCaughey