MARCH 2019 VOLUME CLXXXIX No– 673
31 Editor’s Letter 32 Agenda
March highlights 36 Forum
Could federal museums be better prepared for US government shutdowns? 39 Diary
Christopher Riopelle on Joaquín Sorolla’s mastery of light 43 Letter
Arthur House in Los Angeles 46 Letter
Linda Wolk-Simon in Houston 50 Architecture
Edwin Heathcote on the Amsterdam School 54 Q&A
Taco Dibbits on the Year of Rembrandt
58 Inquiry
Tom Stammers asks whether historic art collections can ever truly be reunited 73 TEFAF Preview
Susan Moore selects her highlights of the fair 84 Beyond TEFAF
Samuel Reilly looks at the events staged in and around Maastricht 87 Q&A
Lars Hendrikman on the mysteries surrounding the Master of Elsloo 101 Salon du Dessin Preview
Sophie Barling selects her highlights of the fair
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Cover Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit (detail), 1602, Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627), oil on canvas, 68 × 88.2cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid See feature on pp. 110–116
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Features 110 The Real Deal
Thomas Marks visits the Prado in in its bicentenary year and finds that its exceptional Old Masters are being presented in new ways 118 Making History
Kerry James Marshall talks to Gabriel Coxhead about painting black subjects and subverting the Western tradition 126 Dealer’s Choice
Michael Werner shows Susan Moore paintings by contemporary artists he has championed – as well as more surprising artworks 134 Facial Recognition
Christina Faraday explains why there’s nothing minor about the portrait miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver 140 Spiritual Home
Alice Kandell ushers Eve M. Kahn into the Tibetan shrine she has created in Manhattan 148 Serving the City
Louise Nicholson visits two worldclass museums – the Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum – in the same town
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