Maggie Gray is a writer, editor and art historian based in London.
Fighting continues in Palmyra; Tania Bruguera is detained in Havana; Richard Prince raids Instagram
Fears for Palmyra as Islamic State militants seize neighbouring town; Anne Pasternak takes over at the Brooklyn Museum; Abramovic and Jay Z have a very public spat
The Picasso painting censored by Fox 5 News is just the latest major artwork to be deemed indecent
Chris Burden dies aged 69; the Royal Academy gets a redesign; architects crash the Turner Prize
It's party week in New York and Venice, but there's angst in Madrid
Doug Fishbone hid a cheap Chinese replica in the Dulwich Picture Gallery and hardly anybody noticed
Cultural sites severely damaged in Nepal; major fire rips through Clandon Park; Museum of Biblical Art forced to close in New York
Islamic State has posted a video online that appears to show the destruction of the Assyrian city
Tiffany Jenkins on Neil MacGregor's exceptional leadership; Kader Attia on the archival impulse; Jack Orlik on the distinction between art and architecture
News and comment from our April issue: Thomas Marks and John Curtis on the cultural desecration of Iraq; Don Quixote in NYC; plus, should the Kunstmuseum Bern have accepted the Gurlitt bequest?
