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Editing October’s Cassone has been very exciting. On her return home from the US in May, Darrelyn Gunzburg rang me from Heathrow airport. Her excitement was palpable. She told me the kind of story every editor of an art magazine dreams of hearing. Nine digital Warhols that nobody has seen before, lost since 1985 had been discovered and Darrelyn has seen them and been given access to them.

Read Darrelyn’s inspiring story of two men’s struggle to release images trapped in 1980s’ technology in her Perspectives article  ‘Nine Warhols Waiting’.  Interest in Warhol never fades: The Brooklyn Museum covered his late work in last year’s ‘Andy Warhol: The Last Decade’ while in December ‘Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures’ opened at MoMA and ran until March of this year. This year, Britain’s Waddesdon Manor is showing Warhol’s ‘Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century’ – read  Darrelyn Gunzburg’s review in this issue. Unflagging in her enthusiasm, Darrelyn is also writing a review of a Warhol show in Portugal, which we will be publishing later this month.

We had always planned that this would be our student issue. Schools, universities and colleges are all back this month, and evening classes are also getting underway. Students of any kind of visual art will get a bargain with a £5 subscription to Cassone. As everything is archived on the site you have a reference tool that grows each month, full of articles and reviews by experts in their fields. Teachers of the visual arts from around the world give you their expert opinion on the books you MUST have, see our Feature review, ‘Getting started - essential books for the new student’. and don't miss our special offers from publishers.

 What I find so interesting is that the old favourites are still often the best.

In one of our Feature reviews, ‘How to build a museum’ Sue Ecclestone writes on the story of the building of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia. Lucky students at UEA have an art gallery in their midst, but its creation was by no means easy.

Five publishers are also offering discounts to our readers this month, so check out the list in Our News and get yourself some bargains. Yves Laberge advises ‘For 19th-century art, start here!’ with his review of two extremely good introductions to 19th-century art, in our Featured reviews section. The publishers are offering our readers great discounts on these too.

Gill Whiteley of Loughborough University writes on 'Dirt', the recent exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. As her latest book is entitled Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash, I knew Gill was just the person to review this for us.

Meanwhile Ros Ormiston visited the stunning ‘Degas: Picturing Movement’ exhibition at the Royal Academy, which runs until 11 December and reviews the exhibition for us in ‘A pas-de-deux with Degas’ in our Around the galleries section.

Students of contemporary visual culture should not miss Jenny Kingsley’s articles on ‘The fine art of photography’ and ‘Living pictures: Vertical gardening on living walls’. The Jeff Koons Puppy, now part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim Bilboa, made quite an impression on me when I saw it a couple of years ago, so I was delighted when Jenny suggested this story of how gardeners are conquering vertical space. Still with the contemporary, we also have articles on branding and on John Hegarty’s account of how he got to the top in advertising.

Sarah Lawson tells us of the exquisite paper sculptures of Allen and Pattie Eckman. As she writes, it is hard to believe that these works of art are made from paper; see some examples in ‘The wild west recreated – in paper’. For those interested in Renaissance art, Larry Silver reviews the catalogue of the exhibition 'The Northern Renaissance: Durer to Holbein' on show at Holyrood House in Edinburgh until 12 January 2012 and Susan Grange reviews the book that accompanied a show of Venice’s Renaissance masters that toured the USA. This is an extremely full issue with many reviews and articles, so do enjoy – and if you haven’t signed up for a course yet, perhaps this issue will inspire you.

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