Features

As some UK museums face cuts of up to 40 per cent, Bill Ferris and Alistair Brown discuss whether they should consider charging entrance fees again.

Elizabeth Bishop refused to regard her paintings as art, but the best of them reveal the same interest in surfaces, and attitude to the world as her poetry

Why paint a curtain? A look at the long tradition of depicting trompe l’oeil curtains in painting

In search of the lost art of the Greek bronze

Even finding some of the artist’s fragile works was a challenge

Where to find the most exceptional works at this year’s fair

Painters struggled deal with the bloody reality of the battlefield

See the best work by some of the world’s most sought-after artists – right after you’ve done the dishes

Soak up some sun and some culture at the same time

Edwin Heathcote and Neale Coleman discuss the Smithsonian’s plans to open an outpost in the ‘Olympicopolis’

Turrell has transformed Houghton Hall with his powerful, mesmerising light installations

What it’s like to exhibit your own collection in the former home an obsessive acquisitor like Sir John Soane