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Is the French government about to criminalise photojournalists?

A proposed law will prevent journalists and the public from photographing the police – and follows widely publicised acts of police brutality, writes Valeria Costa-Kostritsky

In defence of the Stonehenge road tunnel

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Plans to sink a dual carriageway beneath Stonehenge have been heavily criticised – but the tunnel will improve our experience of the site, writes Timothy Darvill

A taste of the Uffizi, with Tuscany’s top chefs

Steak night: Dario Cecchini grills a rib-eye, inspired by a still life by Jacopo Chimenti

Videos of top Italian chefs chewing over the Uffizi’s collection have a delightfully homemade flavour

The Victorian adventurers who pitched their tent for eternity

The tomb of Richard and Isabel Burton at the church of St Mary Magdalen, Mortlake, built 1891.

Richard and Isabel Burton are buried in a quiet churchyard in south London – but their remarkable tomb is a fitting monument to these insatiable travellers

Video in demand? The nostalgic appeal of VHS

Market crash: does anybody mourn the death of VHS?

Videos have become relics of a bygone era – but they are attracting a new following, glitches and all

The week in art news – Amnesty report points to massacre in Ethiopian town of Axum

Plus: Swiss museums reopen next week, while UK museums must wait until May | Experts confirm message on The Scream is by Munch | and National Gallery in London and Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin update Hugh Lane bequest deal

Ottilie W. Roederstein

(detail; 1917), Ottilie W. Roederstein.

The reopening of the Kunsthaus Zürich brings another chance to see the work of the once hugely successful Swiss modernist

Will Frasier’s dodgy art collection make a comeback?

Schlock jock: Kelsey Grammer as Frasier.Photo: Gale Adler/Paramount

With the sitcom set to return to our screens, Rakewell wonders if its pompous protagonist will know more about art than he used to

Masterpieces in Miniature: Treasures from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection

Snuff box (c. 1765), Berlin.

Sparkling objets d’art from the 16th to the 20th century go on view at DIVA in Antwerp

Golden Mummies of Egypt

Mummy mask of a man (detail; c. 100 BC), Lahun, Egypt.

The North Carolina Art Museum explores life and death in Egypt in the era after the reign of the pharaohs

Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And

Art Is . . . (Girl Pointing)

Since the early ’80s, the American artist has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptualism. A survey at the Brooklyn Museum

Has the UK government abandoned the arts?

Gloomy forecast: at a protest against job cuts in the culture sector in summer 2020.

Former arts minister Ed Vaizey and leading culture writer Charlotte Higgins on whether the government should be doing more for the hard-hit arts sector

Bye, Robot: a farewell to Daft Punk

Casque strength: Daft Punk performing in 2006.

Daft Punk weren’t always robots – but it’s how they’ll be remembered

Apollo and the Warburg Institute present ‘Cinema and the Museum’

Register now for the next event in our ‘Museums of the Mind’ series – John Akomfrah, Emilie Bickerton and Deborah N. Landis in conversation with Fatema Ahmed about ‘Cinema and the Museum’

For the women of Venice, the fiddly art of bead-stringing is worth fighting for

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Fiddlesticks! The art of bead-stringing in the 21st century.

Stringing glass beads was once the main work available to Venetian women – but it’s now a protected craft pursued by only a handful of skilled artists

What’s on Oliver Dowden’s walls?

The Secretary of State for Culture has paintings by Lubaina Himid and Charles Mozley in his office – but perhaps video art is more his thing?

The merchant from Moscow who fell for the Parisian avant-garde

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Portrait of the Collector of Modern Russian and French Paintings, Ivan Abramovich Morozov (detail; 1910), Valentin Serov. Courtesy Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Ivan Morozov built one of the greatest modern art collections in the world – but only a century after his death is his legacy being recognised

The Swiss museums leading the charge to reopen

Museums in Switzerland have appealed to the government to let them reopen – and French museums are following suit

If shops can reopen in April, why can’t museums?

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The National Gallery, closed and an empty Trafalgar Square on 24 March 2020. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Museums in England will have to wait until May to reopen but shops, gyms and libraries are set to open in April. What’s the logic in that?

An architectural frieze is the icing on the cake, for a building

They’re the classic way to embellish a building – and for all their suspicion of ornament, even modern architects went in for them

The battle to save London’s mulberry trees

Nurses dance around the Bethnal Green mulberry in 1944, three years after it was bombed.

Mulberry trees are rare in the city, yet more than one is currently under threat – including the oldest tree in the East End

Experts confirm Edvard Munch wrote secret message on The Scream

The Scream (detail; 1893), Edvard Munch.

Experts have confirmed that the writing on The Scream is in Munch’s handwriting

For Lisa Yuskavage, art isn’t about being right or wrong – it’s the freedom to do what you want

Lisa Yuskavage photographed at her studio in December 2020.

She may paint Penthouse pin-ups, but Lisa Yuskavage’s work is far more compassionate than some critics allow – not that she makes art with morality in mind

Vein glorious: an epic history of marble, reviewed

Wall panel in opus sectile (c. 394), from a Roman house outside the Porta Marina, Ostia. Museo dell’Alto Medioevo, Rome

For millennia, marble was taken to be a gleaming reflection of the heavens – and, in Fabio Barry’s new book, it regains its divine mysteries