A new season for art and art lovers

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In November we look forward to Christmas. Meanwhile,  amazing autumnal colours of the leaves still on the trees in the northern hemisphere are accompanied by the crispness of those beneath our feet and in the world of art wonderful exhibitions are opened which will cheer us until well into the New Year. To help the celebrations along, we are offering to extend all gift and personal subscriptions taken out by 31 December to 31 January 2013 - an extra two months if you subscribe now!

In this issue of Cassone we visit Grayson Perry’s exhibition The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum, Vermeer’s Women at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Artic Photography at the Queen’s Gallery Buckingham Palace, William Etty at York City Art Gallery, Painting Canada, Tom Thompson and the Group of Seven at Dulwich  'Jamie Shovlin: Thy Will Be Done' at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle,  and  more.

The  'Leonardo' exhibition at London's National Gallery is the event of the season; with television programmes being made and many books being published, Leonardo Da Vinci, the great Renaissance artist, is once again very much of the moment. See our review by Ros Ormiston, whose own book on Leonardo is now out.

In this issue we also have Jenny Kingsley writing on the Dublin City Art Gallery the Hugh Lane, in Ireland,  and Sophie Bostock visits a new museum in Cannes, France.

Before there were blockbuster Hollywood disaster movies, there was John Martin. His vast pictures used to tour the country, exhibited to paying viewers only. Now London’s Tate Britain puts a selection on show for the first time in many years. Find out what thrilled the Victorians in Jeannie Labno’s feature review.

There seems always to be a Biennial show on somewhere – Istanbul’s will close shortly but not before Susan Noyes Platt got there – read her report in our feature review.

Looking for something new to read as the season changes? Our reviews cover books on such diverse subjects as the design of Apple products; the art Richard Dadd produced while incarcerated in Bedlam and Broadmoor; the early work of Picasso and Braque; photography along the ancient Silk Road, a trade conduit for well over 1000 years; the art of the ossuary; the ancient origins of the city of Rome; and the unlikely collection of Polynesian idols by British missionaries.

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