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Tibet's fortunes may havefluctuated over the centuries, but its tradition of Buddhist art has always been valued. Today, both wall paintings and thangka scrolls are highly prized by collectors Buddhism [...]

Mostly made for Europeans by artisans in the Islamic world, 'Veneto-Saracenic' metalware from the 15th and 16th centuries has long enjoyed a steady if modest market. This year, however, a [...]

Background: There is a need to increase the involvement of Australian general practitioners (GPs) working in private practice to realise the potential of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatments for people with the hepatitis C virus. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2018 with seven GPs and two practice nurses working in private general practice to elicit the experiences and perceptions of their involvement in providing care for patients with hepatitis C virus in this setting. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed to inform interventions to maximise the provision of DAA in private general practice. Results: Participants described individual GPs purposely limiting their scope of clinical practice (SOCP) and expressed an expectation that DAA provision would not be included in all GP's SOCP. When GPs delineate their SOCP, their confidence to competently provide quality health care to their patients and GPs' professional special interests are important considerations. Conclusion: Providing DAA training, skill development, support and resources to GPs is necessary, but may not ensure that individual private GPs will provide this care. Where GPs do not include DAA in their SOCP, care pathways need to be developed for patients who will benefit from DAA, including GP-to-GP referral. These findings may be applicable to other areas of unmet need that rely on GPs including provision of care in their SOCP. There is a need to increase the involvement of Australian general practitioners (GPs) working in private practice to realise the potential of direct-acting antiviral treatments for hepatitis C virus. GPs limit their scope of clinical practice, and when doing so, consider their confidence to competently provide quality health care to their patients and their professional interests. Although current support for GPs prescribing direct-acting antiviral treatments is well accepted, alternative care pathways are needed when GPs do not include direct-acting antiviral treatments in their scope of clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An emphasis on the outcomes of health and social care services has become increasingly apparent within public policy in the United Kingdom. Alongside this, working in partnership has been a key theme, despite a relatively underdeveloped evidence base. Of central importance, however, must be whether directives toward partnership working are delivering improved outcomes, and in particular, the outcomes that are valued by service users. The authors describe a project that sought to identify the outcomes important to people with intellectual disabilities, and where possible, whether partnerships delivered these outcomes. The research was primarily based on interviews with service users and carers, and involved people with intellectual disabilities as both researchers and research subjects. The project categorized key outcomes in two categories (quality of life and process) and identified ways in which health and social care partnerships can deliver the outcomes service users want. If agencies are to deliver good outcomes to users, as increasingly emphasized in policy, this focus should accurately reflect the outcomes that users themselves define as important.

Although artists of the Ferrara school are not as well known as their near contemporaries Correggio and Parmigianino in Parma (a 'vanishingly rare field', according to Eugene Pooley, Old Master [...]

Prices for indigenous Indonesian art have increased in the last few years, boosted by more interest in Asia, particularly Indonesia itself. Where previously collectors there focused on classical work from [...]

In 2008, the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created a futuristic bunker, called TH:2058, in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, imagining it as a shelter and storage facility for the last [...]

The South African artist William Kentridge works in many media and is in demand around the world as a director of plays and operas. But, as he explains to Apollo, [...]

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] [FIGURE 3 OMITTED] [FIGURE 4 OMITTED] [FIGURE 5 OMITTED] It is five years since Masterpiece London (25 June-1 July) rose from the ashes of [...]

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] It's not just its booming art market that is putting Hong Kong on the international map--interest in local artists is burgeoning too, thanks to the activities of [...]

The story used to be, the Spanish did not draw. With a handful of attributed drawings by Velazquez, no signed sheets by Francisco de Zurbaran (only some hesitantly attributed sketches [...]

Now 83, David Hockney is perhaps the world's best-known living artist. Since leaving the Royal College of Art in 1962, where he was already recognised as a precocious draughtsman and [...]

European and Asian collectors have at last begun to appreciate the gorgeous, shimmering colours of Tiffany glassware--table lamps, windows, blown glass. With a well-established and enthusiastic American market, prices can [...]

In association with Switzerland. Museums dedicated to just one artist are special places. 'There is even a club for single-artist museum directors,' Nina Zimmer tells me. Zimmer is the director [...]

In recent years, despite being plagued with fakes, the market for Jewish artefacts--from books and manuscripts to textiles and fine art--has taken off. High-quality objects with historical significance and good [...]

We are in a golden age of scholarship on tapestries, though an uneven market does not always reflect the fact. Certain themes unicorns, oversized greenery--always hold value, however, and smaller [...]

The limewood sculptures of southern Germany are among the most revered artworks of the Northern Renaissance. The art historian Michael Baxandall established the canon in his magisterial book The Limewood [...]

Originally imported from China in 686, the folding screen became a fine art in Japan, developed over centuries. More recently, the demand for these objects has been greater in the [...]

The revival in the French tradition of haute joaillerie can he dated to the late 1970s. Since then the market has burgeoned, a new generation of jewellers have taken up [...]

Since the term 'art deco'emerged in the late 1960s, the market for works associated with the style has grown. Today, collectors favour the modernising strand within art deco--especially works by [...]

The market for fossils, meteorites and other geological curiosities has grown rapidly over the last 20 years, with collectors drawn to the rarest of examples. Yet it's their decorative qualities, [...]

In medieval choir books, splendid examples of illumination often accompany the musical notation. While complete volumes tend to be the preserve of book collectors, single leaves and miniatures are highly [...]

Interest in art from the Bay Area post-1945 has grown over the last 10 years, with both abstract and figurative works fetching impressive results. It's the Abstract Expressionist canvases of [...]

Interest in modern Arab art has risen steeply over the last 15 years. So have prices. 'When I first encountered Etel Adnan's work in 2008 her pieces were selling for [...]

Interest in drawing, both as a medium and practice, is quietly resurgent. In January, the Courtauld Gallery in London opened a dedicated drawings room, and the works on display here--and [...]

This autumn, major exhibitions dedicated to the late paintings of Rembrandt and Turner bring to the fore age-old questions of what we mean when we talk about 'late style'. A [...]

In 1943, Matisse retreated to Vence where he embarked on the last great phase of his career. Adrien Maeght, chairman of the Fondation Maeght, talks to Apollo about his memories [...]