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Creative schools: the artists taking art education into their own hands
Fees and funding cuts are taking their toll in the UK, but artists are a resourceful lot…
Post-Surveillance: Suzanne Treister’s riposte to ‘Post-Internet’ art
Drones, video games and the NSA…
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Paris
Paris is getting back into gear after the August exodus. What’s coming up in the city’s art calendar?
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Los Angeles
What’s next for the Los Angeles art world? A look ahead at some of the gallery openings and relocations coming up this autumn
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in London
The art world’s awake again after August’s sunny stasis. Which events stand out in London’s busy blockbuster season?
The Week’s Muse: 30 August
The problem with posthumous art; a bitter exit for France’s Culture Minister; and why you should plant a poppy at the Tower of London this autumn
Among the poppies: volunteering at the Tower of London’s war memorial
Paul Cummins’ red field of poppies has been planted by volunteers, and is still growing
Wolsey’s Angels: the V&A seeks to acquire four important Renaissance sculptures
Cardinal Wolsey commissioned them, Henry VIII seized them, and now the V&A wants to preserve them
What are we to make of posthumous art?
An exhibition of Garry Winogrand’s photography at the Metropolitan Museum includes many posthumous prints. Do they have a place there?
The Week’s Muse: 23 August
Bob and Roberta Smith stands up for art in schools; Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square; and the utopian appeal of geometric art
‘Art Party’: Bob and Roberta Smith’s defense of art in schools
We spoke to the artist at the head of a campaign to keep creativity on the school curriculum
‘This is not America’. Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square
Jarr’s restaged message to ‘America’ feels as as relevant as ever
Radical Order: Geometry and the Utopian Impulse
What’s behind the enduring appeal of geometry in modern art?
The Week’s Muse: 16 August
Are art installations the new video games? Are adverts the new art installations? News and comment from the Muse Room…
Are art installations the new video games?
Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?
Art and Advertising: friends or foes?
Cosy, co-dependent, sometimes antagonistic: the relationship between art and advertising is a complicated affair
Folk Art and ‘Civilisation’: the question of art in context
Tate Britain’s ‘Kenneth Clark’ and ‘Folk Art’ shows looked at, and outside, the art-historical canon
Milking It: Delaware Art Museum will sell two more works of art
Winslow Homer’s ‘Milking Time’ and Alexander Calder’s ‘The Black Crescent’ are next up
The Week’s Muse: 9 August
A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room
The Tate Affair: then and now
The Tate has been in the firing line in recent years; is recent criticism comparable to the infamous ‘Tate Affair’ of 1952–54?
Lights Out: Remembering the First World War
The UK’s monuments will go dark this evening, marking 100 years since the start of the First World War
Making an entrance: the Fitzwilliam Museum’s opulent portico has been restored
The magnificent entrance has been meticulously spruced up
The Week’s Muse: 2 August
40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays
Ryan Gander’s plans for an art school in Suffolk
The artist outlines his plans for a new art independent art school in his hometown of Saxmundham, Suffolk