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DECEMBER ISSUE COMING SHORTLY!

The November issue is a ‘refreshed’ issue of Cassone with just 17 new articles to keep you interested until our next full issue in December.

This month our interview subject is Maria Bell Salter. Maria who lived until the age of ten in New York, and as a child  accompanied by her mother often visited the Metropolitan museum and has now become a painter herself. Notwithstanding a busy life as an artist, she also works as the Regional London chairman for The Art Fund, where her role is primarily one of fundraising, helping to save for the nation the paintings that we value and hope never to tire of.

Also in this issue Lindsey Shaw Miller writes on three contemporary landscape artists. She points out that landscape art is usually thought of as ‘safe’ art, but these three artists really push the boundaries of what you would expect. Frances Follin attended the successful show at Tate Modern of Paul Klee’s work; this exhibition features 130 works spread over 16 rooms – so get fit for this one! Frances also covers the major exhibition ‘Elizabeth and her People’ at the National Portrait Gallery while Patricia Andrew went to the Allan Ramsay exhibition at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow which marks the tercentenary  of the birth of one of Scotland’s greatest portraitists.

An artist who refused lucrative portrait commissions in favour of satirizing his political and social environment was Honoré Daumier – Alette Rye Scales reveals his often-overlooked art, now on display at London's Royal Academy. Also at the Academy, in the prestigious main galleries, the largest show of Australian art for 50 years is currently showing. This is art that is also often overlooked beyond its native land – Georgina Coburn has found this show very inspiring, as you can see in her review.

This month we feature various art-related stories from around the world. John Varoli writes on the vibrant art scene in Dubai, in particular the work of Russian feminist artist Aidan Salakhova. Victoria Keller tells us of the Dutch paintings from the Mauritshuis exhibition at the Frick in New York,  which in her words is ‘a lovely exhibition and nicely hung’ Linda Yang reviews a book on a New Zealand sculptor Gill Gatfield,  and Jenny Kingsley visited  the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments in Athens, where hand-crafted musical instruments such as have been used for centuries are preserved. Mo White reviews a book on controversial American artist Lynda Benglis, Adrian Lewis reviews an 'extraordinary' account of the work of Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, and Patricia R. Andrew writes on the underappreciated work of Gustave Caillebotte, patron of the Impressionists and impressive artist in his own right.

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