• An interview with Yinka Shonibare
• Monsters in modern art
• Wordsworth among the artists
• Has LACMA lost its way?
Plus: cinema in the museum, art nouveau in Nancy, zingers at the Zwinger, and the paintings of Beauford Delaney
All change at the National Gallery | An interview with Caroline Walker | On tour with the Von Trapps
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue | An interview with Oliver Beer | How the Acropolis became modern
How to give back looted objects | An interview with Alex Da Corte | Versailles enters the 21st century
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections
As her largest museum show to date opens, the Scottish artist talks to Samuel Reilly about her tender paintings of women at work
Sixty years after the film’s release, locals are still surprised by visitors re-enacting a few of their favourite things
Inger Christensen’s reissued take on the artist’s time at the Gonzaga court is as experimental as his work would have seemed to contemporaries
How to give back looted objects
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections