The German culture minister, Monika Grütters, has called a meeting next month of museums and states to form ‘a national strategy’ regarding the Benin Bronzes held by German museums. The announcement comes after a recent meeting between representatives of the German culture ministry and Nigerian officials in Benin City, which has raised hopes of the […]
Christopher Monkhouse transformed the decorative arts holdings at major museums in Providence, Minneapolis and Chicago, and built his own remarkable collections of books and drawings – and friends
The collecting of women has often been regarded as mere shopping, but the efforts of both princesses and professional artists are now receiving their rightful dues
Apollo’s longer selection of the year’s most important museum acquisitions is published in the December 2020 issue Art Fund Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, bought by Derek Jarman in 1986 The artist and film-maker Derek Jarman acquired Prospect Cottage, a former fisherman’s home on the Kent coast, in 1986; he lived there until his death in 1994. Adorned […]
On Tuesday, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York cancelled a planned exhibition of artworks created in recent months ‘in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement’, after objections from a number of the artists whose work was to have been included in the show. The exhibition, titled ‘Collective Actions: Artist Interventions in […]
The role of leading Anglo-Jewish figures in the development of the fledgling museum deserves to be better known
As the museum passes an important milestone with its doors shut, Glenn Adamson considers what its collection has meant to him over the years
The museum’s director talks about how the institution can best serve its audience in challenging times
The former transport secretary has been appointed as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery – so he must be a museum fanatic, right?
The museum, which boasts one of the leading encyclopaedic collections in the US, has reopened – months ahead of unveiling a major expansion
Thomas Campbell and Adam Koszary ask whether the online experience can ever compare to being in a physical gallery
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The perceived role of museums in society has grown enormously in recent years – but how far does that reflect what they actually are?
From inventories to installation shots – Liza Kirwin discusses the crucial role of gallery records in documenting art history
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Adolf and Frieda Fischer’s globetrotting led to their founding the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne
The gothic heart of Bruges now beats a little faster at the renovated Gruuthusemuseum
From Assyrian carvings to contemporary African art, the museum’s wide-ranging collection has a recently expanded home