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The long wait for Britain’s Waterloo memorial

It’s taken 200 years for Britain to commemorate the dead

Dan Holdsworth’s dizzyingly beautiful photographs on show in Southampton

The scientific made spiritual

Haunting photographs of Palmyra go on display at the Smithsonian

A rare funerary bust is accompanied by 19th-century photographs from the site

Is Culture Bigger Than Politics? The British Museum and Abu Dhabi

The ‘Museum for the World’ is a noble but dangerous ideal

The Best of Art Basel

See the best work by some of the world’s most sought-after artists – right after you’ve done the dishes

Tate Britain: A Poisoned Chalice?

New director will need to boost visitor numbers and restore morale

Public art, private funds: can Oslo learn from Christian Ringnes’ sculpture park?

Changing Norwegian attitudes to privately-funded art

A case of mistaken identity at the Whitechapel Gallery

Corin Sworn has filled the space with costumes and props inspired by the Italian Commedia dell’Arte

Thomas Struth in Israel and Palestine: a land shaped and scarred by religion

Everything in Struth’s shots seems to have taken on a level of aggression

London Diary

Michael Craig-Martin has brightened up the RA Summer Exhibition a bit, but Agnes Martin is truly unmissable at the Tate

Flora & Frida: the New York Botanical Garden celebrates Frida Kahlo

She was a colourful character…

Art in the Garden: Four great ways to enjoy art outdoors in the USA

Soak up some sun and some culture at the same time

Muse Reviews

In search of sculptures on London’s latest art trail; James Turrell heads for Norfolk; transforming Met and the V&A with film

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action’

The fashion for film: large-scale projections are transforming museums

Theatrics at the Met and the V&A

Art Outlook

British Museum highlights could be sent to Abu Dhabi; Iranian artist imprisoned for ‘insulting the Supreme Leader’; MoMA staff stage protests

Walking a Fine Line: London’s new sculpture trail

The Line is a great concept, but it’s not without teething problems

Send them back: Sir Hugh Lane’s Impressionist icons belong in Ireland, not London

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And the National Gallery knows it

Review: Woman in Gold asks questions about the value of art

Helen Mirren stars as Maria Altmann, an émigré Austrian Jew battling to have a painting returned to her after its theft by the Nazis

Cuba’s censorship of Tania Bruguera’s art makes her message more powerful

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In a way, the disruption completes the performance

Return to the source – the invention of American landscape painting

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm – The Oxbow (1836), Thomas Cole. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The painters of the Hudson River School are now firmly recognised as pioneers of American art – and inspiring a new generation of artists

Editor’s Letter: Anniversary Years

Clusters of centenary exhibitions and publications may well bring new material to light. But what do they tell us about the way we think now?

The Magnificent 20: these Italian museums have been granted financial autonomy

These 20 Italian museums will appoint new directors this year and will be granted financial autonomy, as part of the…

Are Italy’s museum reforms enough to stop the rot?

Red tape, nepotism, funding shortages…The Italian museum system has long been in need of an overhaul