Happy New Year - and a new issue of Cassone

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Our new February issue is in preparation and will go online in the next few days.

Meanwhile, have you seen everything already online here at Cassone? Remember to check out our wonderful Archive!

A few very old articles have suddenly popped up as 'January' content - apologies - we are trying to remove them back to where they came from. Meanwhile...

Peter Jones has been taking a look at the Barbican's exhibition, 'Pop Art Design'  (closes 9th February so catch it now) – a 'stimulating and enjoyable show' that conveys what a truly international movement 'Pop' was. Its influence spilled over from the art of such figures as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton into the world of furniture design, film sets, fashion and architecture, to name a few.

Is Isa Genzken one of the most important women artists of the last 30 years? Join Stephen Bury to see what he thinks. This will certainly be one of the most important US shows this year, as after its stint at MoMA, New York it will be moving to Chicago and then on to Dallas.

It is 100 years this year since the birth of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. A new edition of perhaps his best-loved poem, Under Milk Wood, has been published, illustrated by Sir Peter Blake. A new travelling exhibition celebrates Thomas through Sir Peter's original illustrations.

Stanley Spencer could only be an English artist. His work is idiosyncratic, apparently childlike, yet complex in its construction. Frances Follin went to see his paintings from the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Hampshire, currently in London, and reports on a show that will shortly be moving on to Chichester. The paintings are on tour while the chapel is restored.

David Ecclestone reports on an exhibition at east London's Whitechapel Gallery, 'Damn Braces: Bless Relaxes'. He tells us that the underlying theme of this is 'the commoner against overweening power' - and who could not give a cheer for that? It would presumably have pleased William Blake, a quote from whom gives the show its title.

Every now and then we hear more about 3D television or 3D film. Ethel Davies takes 3D still photographs, which are intriguing even without the special specs, as Karen Hasin Bromley discovers.

Also in this issue, we continue our look at how landscape art is developing in the 21st century. Jeffery Camp is now in his 90th year but still producing innovative and very beautiful paintings - read about him in Ian Jones' Perspectives piece.

In this issue we have a selection of books on aspects of art that may not ususally get much of a look-in. Howard Hollands ponders on what 'time' means in art. American artist Robert Arneson was a 'cranky humanist' who produced bawdy, hard-hitting but engaging art, says David McCarthy. How wise is the received wisdom on old masters? Perhaps we should Take a Closer Look – Richard Woodfield welcomes a new book that questions what we think we know. Church attendances are said to be dropping everywhere, but Christ and biblical subjects still seem to inspire artists as they have for centuries. Vivien Hornby Northcote has been reading a new book on modern religious art.

Photographer Peter Beard is one of those lucky people who have been everywhere, seen everything and met everyone - or so it would seem from a new book about this widely travelled photographer, conservationist and writer, who discovered a supermodel in Africa and posed for Francis Bacon. Don't miss Ian Jones' review of a beautiful new book on his work.

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