Art for the summer with Cassone

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I am so glad you are visiting Cassone. Welcome and Enjoy.

Click on  Our News at the top of the screen next to 'About us' to see the latest in the world of art entirely free.  This includes access to Jenny Kingsley’s fascinating article on Strawberry Hill, a gothick fantasy made real (see July News).

Inside, take a look at  2 Willow Road, the house whose architect was the inspiration for Auric Goldfinger, Ian Fleming’s villainous opponent of James Bond. This article is one of our  Perspectives pieces this month. Here subscribers can also access ‘Stories of the world’, where hardworking Jenny Kingsley tells us about a dynamic project inspired by the London Olympics involving young people planning their own museum exhibitions and projects. Museums and their contents would be nothing without the work of conservators keeping the works of art in prime condition. Claire Finn, an accredited art conservator, tells us about conservation work in ‘The fragility of art’, also to be found under Perspectives.

If you go to our Featured reviews section you will read Elizabeth Herridge’s report on  ‘Old Javanese Gold: The Collection of Hunter Thompson’at theYale University Art Gallery.  This exhibition consists of approximately200 gold objects made on the island of Java when Indonesia was a centre for trade. Henry Matthew’s visit to the Venice Biennale, which complements Susan Platt’s review in our July issue, is also in the Featured reviews section. If you are travelling about this summer, you might visit Cumbria in the UK or Rome in Italy – see our reviews of an intriguing 17th-century painting at  Abbot Hall and a new guidebook to the eternal city for art lovers. Both under Featured reviews.

In our Around the galleries section, read our reviews of the Twombly and Poussin exhibition at Dulwich Gallery, Elizabeth Blackadder’s work  and  images of the Queen in Edinburgh, and an R.B. Kitaj retrospective at Abbot Hall in Cumbria.

Unlike a print magazine, the past content of Cassone is always there for you to go back to, any time. Our May and June and July reviews and articles are all still online and will remain so. See our Archive listings for all the content put online since we launched in May. This is the first month in which some of our content – May – is not accessible from the topic bar across the upper part of your screen – but it is all there if you click on ‘Archive’ above the topic bar at top right of your screen.  And if you have come here for ideas for more summer reading, we have plenty of suggestions. Cassone is the only magazine that reviews so many art, photography, architecture, design and new media books. Many books are costly items and in this economic climate you want to get value for your money. Our reviews are written by experts in their fields: let them appraise the books for you.

We publish the second half of our interview with Judy Chicago. If you have ever wondered what they teach budding artists at art schools, you will be interested to read the views of feminist artist Judy Chicago, most well known for her work The Dinner Party. We take up the second part of her discussion with Dr Patricia Allmer as they also talk about Judy’s work and the parallels she has found with that of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–54).

I hope you are enjoying reading Cassone as much as we are enjoying creating it for you.