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November 2018
• Japan’s sophisticated prehistoric society
• A new look for the Nationalmuseum in Sweden
• An interview with Berlinde de Bruyckere
• Is enough being done to return Nazi-looted art?
Plus: the creative uses and misuses of VR, the cast courts at the V&A, the new Islamic galleries at the British Museum, and a preview of Asian Art in London
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October 2024
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
September 2024
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
July/August 2024
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
June 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
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How will Paris cope without the Pompidou Centre for five years?
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
Were the Impressionists really so shocking?
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
What is the point of the people in architectural drawings?
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem