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More than 300 photographs at MoMA and an Aboriginal shield in Adelaide are among this month’s highlights

While museums deliberate about returning objects that were taken from their places of origin without consent, it is easier for individuals to act

The sacking of two museum directors and the axing of the ministry for culture is part of a wider struggle about who and what culture is for

The importance of public statuary and portraiture for the Romans is no better demonstrated than in the way images of personae non gratae were destroyed, disfigured or re-carved

Khadija Saye was among the 72 people who died in the fire at Grenfell in 2017. A series of self-portraits she made that year is currently on display near the tower

The discovery of remains of victims of the Terror in a chapel dedicated to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette complicates our understanding of the monument

Struck by both Covid-19 and a fierce earthquake, Croatia’s capital city and its cultural heritage need urgent help

A century after the founding of the Leach Pottery in St Ives, the ‘father of British studio pottery’ remains an influential, if contested, figure

What does it mean to make cinema – and film directors in particular – the subject of museum exhibitions?

Photographs by Gordon Parks and a panoramic painting by Dale Lewis feature amid an unusually plentiful offering in London this summer

As museums and galleries in the UK reopen, Apollo’s editors pick out the exhibitions they’re most looking forward to visiting

The shop window has long been a playground for artists – and looks set to be so more than ever in the months ahead

The encounter between Mary Magdalene and the risen Christ has challenged the artists who have chosen to represent it

Five decades of drawings by Giuseppe Penone and a dazzling drunkard by Joaquin Sorolla are among this month’s highlights

The remains of the Red Lion, recently unearthed in Whitechapel, show us a dress rehearsal for the great Elizabethan theatres