Forum: Should UK museums reintroduce entrance charges?
As some UK museums face cuts of up to 40 per cent, Bill Ferris and Alistair Brown discuss whether they should consider charging entrance fees again.
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Your chance to win ‘Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns’, by Stacey Sell & Hugo Chapman
Museum Trips: Five works of art broken by clumsy gallery-goers
In Taiwan this week a young boy stumbled into a 17th-century painting and broke it. He’s not the first…
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Your chance to win ‘Object Lessons: The Visualisation of Nineteenth-Century Life Sciences’, by George Loudon
How Edmund de Waal came to love the colour white
The artist is to curate a show about the colour at the Royal Academy
UK government extends export bar on £16 million Sekhemka statue
Will anyone step forward to buy the work for the nation?
The Gardner Museum Theft 25 Years On
The FBI may know who stole them, but the location of 13 masterpieces remains a mystery
Art Outlook
All-out strike at the National Gallery; Gulf Labor in Venice; €80million for cultural projects in Italy; and a new Global CEO for Bonhams
Italian government invests €80million in heritage sites
The headline winners are the Uffizi and the Colosseum
Acquisitions of the Month: July 2015
Which major works have made it into public collections this month?
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Your chance to win ‘Van Gogh: The Birth of an Artist’, by Sjraar van Heugten
Art Outlook
Tate Britain appoints its next director; Ai Weiwei denied a six-month visa by UK government; Paolozzi’s London Underground murals relocate to Edinburgh; and the National Gallery makes an unusual painting purchase
Ai Weiwei denied UK visa for a criminal conviction he does not have
Ai Weiwei’s visit to Britain for the opening of his show at the Royal Academy will be brief. The British…
Gallery: Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy
Preview the works that will go on display at the Royal Academy this autumn
Art Outlook
York Art Gallery reintroduces entrance charges; Ai Weiwei gets his passport back; The Hermitage will open an outpost in Moscow; Baselitz and Richter throw their cultural weight around.
Highlights from the new Centre of Ceramic Art in York
Our picks from the impressive collection at the renovated York Art Gallery
Muse Reviews
Announcing the Prix Pictet shortlist; Adam Buck at the Ashmolean museum; Impressionism comes to Philadelphia
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Your chance to win ‘Delacroix and His Forgotten World: The Origins of Romantic Painting’, by Margaret MacNamidhe
Art Outlook
Cuban government returns Tania Bruguera’s passport; Gerhard Richter threatens to pull loaned artworks from German museums; Douglas Gordon attacks theatre with axe
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