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Apollo
May 2008
Features:
- Editorial dining with the ancestors, by this month’s guest editor, dame Jessica rawson
- 10 to catch What’s on around the world in May
- MadE in china Guy and Myriam Ullens have created the Ullens centre in Beijing for contemporary chinese art. louise nicholson visits their private collection
- a World lEadEr in thE StUdY oF china heather Bell explains how the launch of the University of oxford china centre heralds a dynamic period in the study of the country
- BodhiSattvaS, JEWElS & dEMonS Katherine tsiang describes the research for a virtual reconstruction of 6th-century Buddhist cave temples in northern china
- oFFErinGS FroM thE BronzE aGE Jessica rawson introduces highlights from Sir Peter Moores’s remarkable collection of chinese bronzes at compton verney
- PorcElain raiSEd FroM thE SEa rose Kerr explains how underwater excavations of shipwrecks are revealing new information about chinese porcelain
- art hiStorY in thE MaKinG Josh Yiu discusses Michael Sullivan’s remarkable collection of 20th-century chinese art, much of it personal gifts from artists
- ModErn art taKES to thE WavES abbie n. Sprague tells the story of Edward Wadsworth’s 1933 commission to decorate cunard’s flagship liner, the Queen Mary
- art noW: nEW YorK vincent Katz begins his new column by analysing curatorial practice in a city striving to retain its artistic pre-eminence
- architEctUrE Gavin Stamp laments the demise of the neo-Georgian post office
- art MarKEt Susan Moore previews this month’s sales of spectacu lar impressionist and modern paintings and reviews sales at new York’s asia Week and tefaf Maastricht
- ASIAN ART Susan Moore previews sales in Hong Kong
- CollECToRS’ foCuS lucian Harris on the market for tribal art
- ART BuSINESS Ben Wright asks if China’s art-hungry rich will help the market avoid the impact of an American recession
- Craig Clunas, Empire of Brightness: Visual and Mat e ri al Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 by evelyn S. rawski
- Liang Zhuangwang mu (Mausoleum of Prince Liang Zhuangwang) by Craig Clunas
- geremie r. barḿ, The Forbidden City by Frances Wood
- Lothar von Falkenhausen, Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-25 0 bc ): The Archaeological Evidence by Sascha Priewe
- Antonia Finnane, Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, and Nation by robert e. Harrist
- ‘The Return of the Gods: Neo-Classical Sculpture in Britain’ by Ruth Guilding
- ‘Wright of Derby in liverpool’ by Hugh Belsey
- ‘Thomas Hope: Regency Designer’ by Tim Knox
- ‘By leafy Ways: Early Works by Ivor Abrahams’ by Tim Richardson