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The rise of the monumental statue in modern-day India
The world’s tallest statue now stands in Gujarat and even taller statues are planned in other states. What does this say about India today?
Acquisitions of the Month: February 2019
A Peter Doig landscape, a Banksy banknote, and a rare Rembrandt have entered public collections recently
The best preserved Roman ruins in France now have a museum to match
The new Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes makes the most of the city’s classical past
‘Robert Ryman gave us a lot to look at’
The painter’s commitment to white taught us new things about colour and about painting itself
How the Africa Museum is facing up to Belgium’s colonial past
The museum founded by Leopold II has reopened after a five-year closure and rethought all its displays. Has it gone far enough?
The disadvantages of being a woman artist haven’t yet disappeared
The under-representation of women by commercial art galleries helps depress their prices. How can this change?
A wacky Wunderkammer in Los Angeles
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is full of natural and man-made curiosities that inspire genuine wonder
How relevant is Ruskin today?
The bicentenary of the great Victorian critic’s birth is an occasion to consider how well his ideas have stood the test of time
Shining a spotlight on sculpture in the UK
With an ambitious digitisation project, Art UK aims to foster appreciation of an art form that is sometimes overlooked
The art of rocks, ruins and ruptured landscapes
John Ruskin, Paul Nash and a host of more recent artists have found geology a rich seam to mine
Edward Allington’s classically inspired approach to modern sculpture
The British sculptor was a great talent in his own right and a dedicated teacher
A new era at the National Museum of Scotland
The last phase of the museum’s makeover gives its Egyptian, East Asian and ceramic collections a chance to shine
A window on the world in watercolour
A new online database reveals how before photography, watercolours were used as visual records
Typing tools, tropical trees and a whole lot of sunshine – the new Norton Museum of Art
Norman Foster’s expansion of the museum in West Palm Beach has been unveiled – and the institution’s new look is enticingly offbeat
Inside Turin’s Museum of Fruit
A 19th-century artist spent decades creating this remarkable pomological collection
Acquisitions of the Month: January 2019
A medieval book coffer and a painting by Rembrandt’s teacher are among the top recent museum acquisitions
The untold story of museums and the art market
The Bowes Museum looks at how art dealers have shaped museum collections
Assembling the fragments of Africa’s medieval past
Rarely exhibited objects from Saharan Africa, viewed alongside familiar European works, offer a fresh take on the Middle Ages
The madcap menagerie of Koen Vanmechelen
With his ambitious new public project in Genk, the Belgian artist fuses art, activism and animal husbandry
Piecing together the untold story of Ida O’Keeffe
An exhibition in Dallas places the spotlight on the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe’s younger sister
Acquisitions of the month: December 2018
A Midwestern epic painting and minimalist marvels were among the top works to enter museum collections last month
Beyond the blockbusters – five more shows to catch in 2019
Highlights include a celebration of Cosimo de’ Medici at the Uffizi and ceramics from Africa at the Design Museum in Munich
Where next for virtual reality art?
Some seem beguiled by VR technology but others are using it to confront our faith in digital progress
The major art anniversaries to look out for in 2019
From Leonardo to the Prado, and from the Bauhaus to the birth of John Ruskin, 2019 is full of significant anniversaries
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