DECEMBER 2018 VOLUME CLXXXVIII No– 670

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15 Editor’s Letter 16 Agenda

December highlights 18 Forum

Should paintings be conserved in public? 21 Diary

Sue Canterbury on Ida O’Keeffe 23 Letter

Samuel Reilly in Lagos 26 Architecture Michael Hall on the stained glass

of Charles Eamer Kempe 29 Q&A Haroon Mirza on sonic art,

solar power and minimalism

Cover Caresses (detail), 1896, Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921), oil on canvas, 50.5 × 150cm. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Photo: J. Geleyns Art Photography See feature on pp. 80–85

APOLLO DECEMBER 2018

34 Inquiry Daniel Trilling wonders if

‘political art’ is all that political 39 London Art Week Preview

Sophie Barling selects her highlights of the event

Apollo Awards 2018 44 Personality 48 Artist 52 Museum Opening 54 Exhibition 56 Book 58 Digital Innovation 60 Acquisition

Plus our survey of the year’s key acquisitions 70 Interview

Matthew Girling, Global CEO, Bonhams

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Features 72 Fit for the Frick

Susan Moore talks to Sidney Knafel about his outstanding collection of French faience 80 Becoming Belgian

Tom Stammers on the mysterious paintings of Fernand Khnopff in fin-de-siècle Belgium 86 Moving Lines Jasmine Jagger on Edward Lear’s hopeless passion for the poetry of Alfred Tennyson

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