How to manage a museum
A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions
A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions
As a book about mist and fog in European painting shows, artists have often taken a very hazy view of the landscape
Todd McEwen leafs through a history of the underground pot-culture press
The restaurateur and writer won over both the smart set and the middle classes – and was a hero to Elizabeth David
The sculptor's chandelier, now export-stopped by the UK government, once hung in the offices of Cyril Connolly’s <i>Horizon</i> magazine
A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject
Historic England has followed Beyonce’s wise words and put a ring on it, as the iconic K8 phone box has been Grade II-listed
William Burges commissioned a singular piece of furniture with contributions from everyone who was anyone among his wide artistic acquaintance
The mythology-mad artist magics up textiles, paintings and sculptures while surrounded by Korean masks and other miscellany – including the ashes of her late dog, Chicho
Whether transforming existing images or taking photographs of her own, the socially engaged artist has never stopped experimenting
A wave of emerging galleries is breaking across the capital despite difficult economic conditions
The museum has reopened with a new entrance and a complete rehang of the collection – but there’s no getting away from its founding purpose
When the country renews its membership in July, it will pay back dues of more than $500m – but it does so on its own terms
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright-Knox, reopens with a strong sense of civic purpose and a firm commitment to modern art
The foundation should never have pursued the copyright case against Lynn Goldsmith and it should be grateful it lost
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Christina Makris goes in search of the work of the architect renowned for marrying traditional craftsmanship to modernist details
Plus: boycott at Kiasma in Helsinki comes to an end, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Amid all the pomp and the circumstance, the crowning of Charles III has much to tell us about the state of the nation