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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
Nazi-era restitution claims are just the tip of the iceberg
Artworks were looted en masse throughout the 20th century: we need far better legislation to resolve the issue
Baltic Diary: The Purpose of Art Prizes
The Lorck Schive art prize has an important role to play in Trondheim’s growing art community
Can art exist on social media?
Can artists and the wider art world use social media for more than self-promotion? Some certainly think so…
‘We have one heritage.’ Syria’s chief of antiquities calls on Europe for help
‘The dangers surrounding the Syrian archaeological heritage are growing beyond our capabilities’
Baltic Diary: The Art of Coffee
Art, made of coffee, shown in a bookshop: Ian Bourgeot’s work at Helsinki’s Arkadia breaks conventions in more ways than one
Virtual Florence: A Church Goes Digital
Reconstructing the lost Florentine church of San Pier Maggiore
Out of sight: Unseen Public Collections
A recent report claimed that public bodies in the UK are keeping £3.5bn worth of art in storage. Is this accurate and what should museums do with objects that they can never display?
Letter from Belfast
‘Belfast is like East Berlin after the Wall came down’ – William Cook on the changing face of a divided city
Diary: Rethinking Surrealist sculpture
‘It was worth taking a risk’: Valerie Fletcher presents Surrealist sculpture in a new light at the Hirshhorn Museum
Baltic Diary: Rethinking the role of art in the city
Engagement, interaction, the co-creation of meaning: these are the museum buzzwords of today. But what do they actually mean?
California Dreaming: Reconsidering the work of Charles and Ray Eames
Surprisingly, their relationship with Los Angeles was ambivalent at best
Surface Tension: Celebrating Alberto Burri’s Centenary
The centenary of the artist’s birth is being marked by exhibitions and events worldwide
Time is Ripe for a David Jones Revival
His literary and profoundly religious approach to art put Jones out of step with modernism. Can two new exhibitions revive his reputation?
Baltic Diary: Art and Politics
‘Contemporary art is a very elitist sphere,’ admitted Frame’s head of programmes Taru Elfving, ‘and it could be so much more’
Indecent Exposure: Art and freedom of expression
Legal disputes surrounding artworks usually require a balancing act between absolute rights and shifting societal norms
Letter from Jerusalem
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is not a mosque, but a shrine. But a shrine to what?
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