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Does Renoir really suck at painting?
The Impressionist has had a hard time of things recently. Will a new film win round the haters?
Delacroix begat Renoir, who begat Matisse, who begat…
Is the current trend for exhibitions exploring artistic influence just an excuse for a lack of focus?
‘Many of those involved in the Easter Rising were art school kids’
The 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin was in part a rebellion of artists – and Dublin museums and galleries are making that clear this year
Why Facebook’s art censorship has landed it in court
Censoring a 19th-century painting has come back to bite the social networking site
Are the cracks in our museum culture beginning to show?
UK museums are struggling to deal with the long-term effects of funding cuts and falling visitor numbers
Loss of Westport House signals wider problems for Ireland’s heritage
Historic property goes on sale after long battle for the Browne family
Has the BBC made art boring?
If anything, the corporation should be taken to task for its desperate bid for accessibility
Baltic Diary: The charms of verdigris
The grey-green of oxidised bronze is common on public buildings throughout northern Europe
Is it still possible to stop the Garden Bridge?
Another week, another controversy. Can opponents of the Garden Bridge project still make their voices heard?
Is street art an effective form of protest? Don’t Banksy on it
Commercial interest in the medium threatens to undermine it
One museum’s tribute to the murdered Syrian archaeologist, Khaled al-Asaad
How the MFA Boston is paying tribute to a respected scholar and humanist
Titles of artworks can obstruct how we interpret artistic meaning
But changing an artwork’s title is hardly the same as pulling down a statue
Are there too many art fairs?
With several art fairs staged every week, are such events damaging to the more traditional art trade, or do they allow greater public engagement with art?
‘If we stay away from Tunisia, we are cowards’
The Bardo Museum in Carthage still bears the scars of last year’s terrorist attack. The best way to support it is to visit
Rewriting the past: must Rhodes fall?
A statue of Cecil Rhodes will stand at Oriel College, Oxford, in place despite calls for its removal, but debates about ‘erasing history’ rumble on
Baltic Diary: Freezing weather and frozen art funding
The Finnish arts organisation Checkpoint Helsinki has had its funding cut. Can it survive?
Will listing post-war public art really help to save it?
Historic England’s last-ditch efforts to focus public attention on public art
Boris Johnson and the GLA are the true vandals of London
The mayor’s expansionist ambitions are ruining the city’s historic character
Farewell, Sir Peter Bazalgette. Your successor will need a thick skin
What the Arts Council England owes its outgoing Chairman
Cuts run deep: Is Australia’s ‘coup culture’ killing its cultural heart?
In the space of five years, Australia has seen five prime ministers, with wildly different attitudes to art and culture
Libya’s threatened ancient history, and why you need to know about it
Here’s what we stand to lose if Libya’s heritage cannot be protected.
Tate Modern keeps it in the family with new director
The gallery has bucked the trend by appointing an internal candidate to its top job
‘It is impossible to overstate Bowie’s influence on our cultural landscape’
From performance art to painting, David Bowie’s legacy stretches far and wide
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Listen up, Chancellor: we must not allow the Gillows collection to be mothballed
The Judges’ Lodgings Museum in Lancaster is threatened with imminent closure. It should be a source of not only civic but national pride