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.
Does Moscow now have its Tate Modern, in the new Garage Museum of Contemporary Art?
Highlights from the world's most important commercial tribal art event
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
Industrial action at the National Gallery puts a spotlight on the role of the museum guard
Why paint a curtain? A look at the long tradition of depicting trompe l'oeil curtains in painting
Since Vasari's day, Piero has been treated as if he were a primitive ‘outsider’ artist
In search of the lost art of the Greek bronze
The height of his popularity was also the beginning of the end
The art market bubble continues to rise
Even finding some of the artist's fragile works was a challenge
Classical art is a hidden category of our contemporary culture
The Prada Foundation has no intention of being an ‘ego-museum’
Where to find the most exceptional works at this year's fair
The artist's reputation is growing
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
The painters of the Hudson River School are now firmly recognised as pioneers of American art – and inspiring a new generation of artists
Clusters of centenary exhibitions and publications may well bring new material to light. But what do they tell us about the way we think now?
Red tape, nepotism, funding shortages...The Italian museum system has long been in need of an overhaul
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
