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York Floods: an update from the Jorvik Viking Centre

Museums and heritage sites across the UK are fighting to minimise flood damage this winter. But what happens after disaster strikes?

Museums assess flood damage in Scotland & northern England

Art News Daily : 7 January

Celts exhibition holds a mirror up to our uncertain Europe

Today’s fragile United Kingdom and Europe are thrown into relief at the British Museum

Acquisitions of the Month: December 2015

Several museums have received wonderful gifts this Christmas…

‘Poverty safari’: Glasgow art project comes under fire

Art News Daily : 6 January

New Year in Manchester: Golden Cut or Half Cut?

How social media took the Golden Ratio out of all proportion…

Protesting against a historical statue is not just childish – it’s bigoted, too

‘Attitudes change, fortunately, but…things we now find offensive cannot be airbrushed away.’

Sir John Soane’s private apartments are a public treasure

The restoration at the Soane Museum is a masterpiece of forensic work

Shadow culture secretary axed in Labour reshuffle

Art News Daily : 5 January

Rodin moves back to Paris

The sculptor would have approved of the Musée Rodin’s sensitive refurbishment

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Snøhetta expansion of SFMOMA, opening 14 May 2016 © Henrik Kam, courtesy SFMOMA

Neal Benezra on the reopening of the SFMOMA and why 2016 will be an exciting year for the entire San Francisco Bay Area

Terrorist attack at UNESCO world heritage site

Art News Daily : 4 January

Who owns the wreckage of the San José, and what should be done with it?

High drama under the high seas and issues of ownership and patrimony off the Colombian coast

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Louise Nicholson predicts that 2016 will be the year of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Rakewell revisited: Mao, Hamilton Finlay’s ‘heavies’ and Uri Geller’s spoon

Updates on some of Rakewell’s most popular stories from 2015, including the gentlemanly disagreement between Ian Hamilton Finlay, Brian Sewell and Apollo

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Maggie Gray looks forward to British modernists at Tate Britain and Dulwich Picture Gallery, antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum and the Fitzwilliam, and the Queen’s House at 400

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Max Hollein on the link between the ICA’s small but important archival displays, and Baselitz’s early paintings at the Städel Museum

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Digby Warde-Aldam anticipates a sensory overload in 2016 as Bosch and Bridget Riley take the stage

Cultural clampdown in Egypt and Ellsworth Kelly remembered

Art News : 31 December 2015

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Maria Balshaw picks robots at the Manchester Art Gallery, Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern, hard-hitting photographs at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery and underwear at the V&A

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Untitled (c. 1995–2000), Etel Adnan.

Imelda Barnard selects some post-war and contemporary art highlights, from Etel Adnan at the Serpentine, to Marcel Broodthaers at MoMA, and Anri Sala at the New Museum

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Wim Pijbes on why the focus of the art world will shift in 2016, from Europe and the US to Africa, the Middle East and Asia

Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015)

Remembering the great pioneer of American abstraction, who has died at the age of 92

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Fatema Ahmed looks forward to John Akomfrah’s films at Lisson Gallery, a second edition of Photo London, and a mysterious show curated by Michel Houellebecq