Art for July: from the phone-y to the 'just plain fun'

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No August issue, we are taking a summer break! Take a look at the new exhibition reviews added recently and of course keep up with stories from the art world in our free Art News section, to which new items will be added throughout the month. If you have a newsworthy story on art  - a new exhibition or event, then let us know.

This issue sees a great variety in content. Jenny Kingsley explores how British Telecom is celebrating the 25^th birthday of ChildLine with an exhibition of phone box replicas transformed into works of art. She also writes on the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, a palatial building which is entirely dedicated to art by women.

We have two interviews for you this month. Ann Bach talks to Tony Harding about what are, in her words, his ‘staggeringly beautiful' Facebook album entitled 'towns & cities of the world’, while Mo White talksnto Nina Danino, artist and filmmaker, who explores both secular and religious ideas and imagery.

Our exhibition reviewers include Jeff Fendall, who describes the Turner Contemporary Margate show of the work of Tracey Emin as a ‘comprehensive display of her range and abilities’, and  Basia Sliwinska, who writes on the Cindy Sherman exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and its catalogue. We catch up with van Gogh as his work tours North America. Susan Grange covers the exhibition at the National Gallery London on Titian’s first masterpiece, The Flight into Egypt while Ian Jones writes on the exhibition the Heatherwick Studio at the V&A. Thomas Heatherwick has been described by Sir Terence Conran as ‘the Leonardo da Vinci of our times’. Anyone who watched the huge horse puppet on the roof of the National Theatre at the Southbank Centre when the Queen went past on the Royal barge in the Diamond Jubilee river pageant will want to see the exhibition ‘War Horse’ at the National Army Museum Chelsea, which Amy Sergeant visited for us.

In this issue we also have some holiday visits for you to think about. A guide to an Eastern Turkish Odyssey is provided by Konstantine Politis  while Jonathan Rinck visits the Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which he states are ‘just plain fun’.

Our book reviews as usual are varied  and include some excellent holiday reads for you. We have a child’s guide to that architectural gem, Windsor Castle; a book about the ‘log cabin’ architecture that allowed wealthy Americans to play at being backwoodsmen in the early 20th century; and the lost opportunities for Greek design over the past two centuries – especially interesting in light of the country’s current desperate situation. Read the fascinating story of the woman who proved to be America’s ‘other Audubon’ and discover which artist was ‘The most money-grubbing individual ever created by nature...’.

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This is our last issue until September - the Cassone team are having a summer break, but new news items will continue to be posted in Art News as well as the occasional exhibition review - and surely you haven't yet read everything in the magazine going back to May 2011 yet?! It is all there in the Archive. Whatever you are doing in the next couple of months, enjoy art and enjoy Cassone.