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Is it time to reform art export in the UK?
Christopher Brown and Bendor Grosvenor debate the pros and cons of the current UK export licensing system
We need ethnographic museums today – whatever you think of their history
Ethnographic collections need to be living collections, representative of cultural diversity and mindful of traditions
‘To see Bacon’s entire oeuvre is a revelation’
The forthcoming Francis Bacon catalogue raisonné brings together a remarkable 585 paintings
Tim Sayer’s remarkable collection makes its public debut
The self-confessed ‘artoholic’ has donated a huge collection of 20th-century works to the Hepworth Wakefield
The Singapore museum redrawing the map of Southeast Asian art
The National Gallery Singapore opened to justified acclaim last year. But will its mission be hampered by the country’s constraints on free expression?
What’s in store at the State Hermitage Museum?
The Hermitage has more than 3 million items in its collection, so making its stores accessible is quite a feat
What’s the point of rebuilding Germany’s palaces?
The construction of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum on the site of the former Stadtschloss raises challenging questions
The Rotterdam museum that collects collectors
The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is to store private collections – which is just the sort of collaboration the museum has always thrived on
So who the hell was Hieronymus Bosch?
We misunderstand the artist if we fail to look past his grotesque beasts and monsters
How Isabella Stewart Gardner shaped artistic taste in the US
The first Piero, the first Simone Martini, the first Raphael… ‘Mrs Jack’ brought them all to America
The ‘grim’ social housing that has proved more robust than what followed it
George Peabody’s vision lives on, and we would do well to heed it today
What makes a museum secure?
What can museums do to deter would-be Thomas Crowns – and what are the risks they run rather more regularly?
The importance of death in everyday Egyptian life
In ancient Egypt funeral objects were as important in daily life as they were in the afterlife
How the nuclear age made its mark on sculpture
The fear of nuclear disaster haunted the forms and materials of post-war sculpture
The eccentric and enduring visions of Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs are some of the most hauntingly original of the 19th century.
Samuel Rush Meyrick: the man behind the medieval revival
‘For students of arms and armour, Meyrick was the first and greatest of those giants on whose shoulders we stand.’
‘This is the best of the Roman tradition’: A new mosaic unveiled in Israel
Archaeologist Amir Gorzalczany from the Israel Antiquities Authority tells Apollo about an exciting new discovery
What’s in store at the National Galleries of Scotland?
Thousands of artworks are hidden away in Edinburgh’s Granton Stores. We got an exclusive tour…
How Asian luxury goods found their way into Dutch Golden Age paintings
Exploring the events – adventurous, legal, and commercial – that shaped Amsterdam’s budding relationship with Asia
Richard Serra’s monumental move in Washington, D.C.
Esther Chadwick watches Richard Serra’s monumental Five Plates, Two Poles move into a new home at the National Gallery of Art
‘All kinds of abstract art were possible.’ Alan Bowness on post-war British painting
Sir Alan Bowness’s art collection goes on display at a new public gallery at Downing College Cambridge
‘This exhibition conflates the gallery and the brothel’
Sensationalist displays are no way to explore art and prostitution, writes Lynda Nead – and the Musée d’Orsay has got carried away with selling sex
Drinking scenes: the relationship between artists and alcohol
The Romantic association between creativity and alcohol has no foundation, but alcohol and its effects have proved a rich subject for artists
Andrew Ciechanowiecki: 1924–2015
The art world has lost one of the most respected scholar-art dealers of the 20th century
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