• Should museums charge entry fees?
• The awesome art of Caspar David Friedrich
• Picnicking with the Impressionists
• The rise of Indigenous art
Plus: Early Renaissance painting, egomaniac architects in film, Norway’s new grain silo-turned-museum, and the Barber Institute in Birmingham; and reviews of Jean Cocteau in Venice, Constantin Brancusi in Paris, and Michelangelo in London
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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