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‘Birth of a Museum’ celebrates new acquisitions for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, but will it win round a critical public?

There’s not a single museum director on The Guardian’s latest list

A round-up of stories and comment from the Muse Room. This week, we pay tribute to Maria Lassnig and Sturtevant.

The current appetite for merging food and art is nothing new…

Apparently the Angel of the North likes a fresh, cheap baguette

Art isn’t therapy. Museums need to diversify. Photography needs a change. A few of the discussions on the blog this week.

Why would one of the most painterly of contemporary painters decide to start issuing screenprints?

Start off with some light Vermeer. Ten reps. Feel you can manage more? Consider moving on to the Dürer

Photographers should produce poetry, not satire

Print collecting, digital catalogues and curator chic… some of the discussions on the blog this week

A curator’s work is all about looking, and being looked at

How should we look at art? A round-up of discussions on the blog this week

Christian art can never be straightforwardly representational

Connoisseurship is still valuable, and many art historians know it

Have we forgotten how to look properly at art?

Antiquities, etiquette and Easter eggs: a round-up of discussions on the blog this week. We also pay tribute to the painter Alan Davie.

Of course we want museums to be accessible, friendly and interesting, but we also have an imperative to protect and preserve

Maria Miller has resigned as UK culture secretary. Perhaps it’s now time to rethink the DCMS entirely.

Starr Figura on the overlooked brilliance of Gauguin’s prints and transfer drawings

Francesco Vezzoli’s plans to rebuild a 19th-century Calabrese church at New York’s MoMA PS1 have been abandoned