These 20 Italian museums will appoint new directors this year and will be granted financial autonomy, as part of the sweeping reforms to the country’s cultural sector spearheaded by the culture minister, Dario Franceschini. Find out more about his plans for Italian museums in our June issue. Galleria Borghese Rome ◎ Galleria degli Uffizi Florence ◎ […]
Red tape, nepotism, funding shortages...The Italian museum system has long been in need of an overhaul
Barbra Streisand donates to LACMA; the Met and the NGA pay homage to Aaron Douglas; SNPG celebrates the Scottish Colourist F. C. B. Cadell
An inventive 21st-century response to copyright infringement
Fighting continues in Palmyra; Tania Bruguera is detained in Havana; Richard Prince raids Instagram
Turtles, lizards and frog-men on Louis XIV’s famous fountain get a spectacular makeover
Fears for Palmyra as Islamic State militants seize neighbouring town; Anne Pasternak takes over at the Brooklyn Museum; Abramovic and Jay Z have a very public spat
Ireland should be more concerned over the dispersal of its cultural heritage
The Picasso painting censored by Fox 5 News is just the latest major artwork to be deemed indecent
Hockney's psychedelic new creations at Annely Juda; Thomas Struth's exceptional photographs at Marian Goodman; and Andre Kertesz at James Hyman
Chris Burden dies aged 69; the Royal Academy gets a redesign; architects crash the Turner Prize
The Inca Empire exerted extraordinary influence over Andean culture; but the region's art was constantly changing
We asked Russian art expert James Butterwick for comment
$179.4 million goes a long way
It's party week in New York and Venice, but there's angst in Madrid
How art has been used as a pawn in the crisis
What have politicians promised; how are artists getting involved; and is anything likely to improve for the culture sector?
Pop art for Chicago; a Duchamp archive for Stockholm; and a Dreamhouse for the Dia Art Foundation
It might have been an entertaining clash were there not so much at stake
The First Lady called on US museums to widen access at the Whitney's ribbon-cutting ceremony
Young and international: is a new type of director coming to London?
Cultural sites severely damaged in Nepal; major fire rips through Clandon Park; Museum of Biblical Art forced to close in New York
The great Palladian country house in Surrey has been very badly damaged
Unesco World Heritage sites are severely damaged, but reconstruction might be an option
