Should UK museums start charging entry fees again?
Keeping the national museums free to enter comes with significant hidden costs, but admission fees are not the answer
Keeping the national museums free to enter comes with significant hidden costs, but admission fees are not the answer
An uncanny family portrait by Lavinia Fontana and Sorolla’s striking copy of a Velásquez are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Collectors Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras are bringing new life to a 16th-century Jesuit school
Christopher Wood’s account of a turning point in early Renaissance art is typically demanding and always stimulating
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
The influential Sami artist talks to Apollo about how she has always woven politics and protest into her work
Plus: Vatican Museums employees bring legal action over working conditions, and the film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof has been smuggled out of Iran
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done
In a show at Piano Nobile, the artist and his circle vie for our attention with the women who made their art possible
In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories
To mark the anniversary of the birth of Salvador Dalí, who played all sorts of temporal tricks in his paintings, we look at four artworks that address the forward march of time
The museum is founded on the collection of John Julius Angerstein and, 200 years later, the banker’s taste is still making itself felt
For his Paris apartment, Léonce Rosenberg commissioned works from the likes of Picabia and de Chirico, fusing modernism and classic French style
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Italy can reclaim an ancient Greek statue currently in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. On Thursday, the court rejected the J. Paul Getty Trust’s appeal against a 2018 ruling from Italy’s highest court that ordered the Getty to return the life-size bronze, […]
Didier Rykner is the tireless heritage campaigner with a talent for publicity who has become a thorn in the side of the French authorities
The Pompidou Centre’s economic model is unsustainable, according to France’s Court of Accounts. The auditing authority published its report, covering the period 2013–22, on Tuesday. Its president Pierre Moscovici told Le Monde that the Pompidou currently ‘does not have the means to finance its development and investment projects by itself’. The institution is under particular […]
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
When he’s not using stadiums to realise his visions, the artist welcomes all manner of visitors, from school kids to tuk-tuk drivers, in his studio-cum-gallery in northern Ghana
The institution’s unravelling of its involvement with empire is very welcome, but has ‘Entangled Pasts’ bitten off more than one exhibition can chew?