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What makes a museum secure?
What can museums do to deter would-be Thomas Crowns – and what are the risks they run rather more regularly?
A collection of Victorian drawings land in the UK
Leighton House proves a perfect backdrop for a remarkable collection of drawings
Painting and ceramics collide in Betty Woodman’s work
The octogenarian’s first solo show in a UK institution is a riot of colour and character
Christo prepares to walk on water
Christo and his wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude wanted to walk on water nearly 40 years ago. The Floating Piers project this summer will achieve their dream.
The museum of Cornish pasties and a peek inside Vincent’s bedroom
The Cornish pasty museum and now booking: Van Gogh’s bedroom on Airbnb
How the nuclear age made its mark on sculpture
The fear of nuclear disaster haunted the forms and materials of post-war sculpture
Egyptology from the point of view of Egyptians
Review of a groundbreaking study of overlooked 20th-century scholars
The YBA demolition jobs causing a sensation near you
Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are building and burrowing in London – but at what cost, asks Rakewell
Susan Hiller’s search for the right medium
‘What’s happened to the witch, the German puppet witch?’ Susan Hiller enquires of the waitress…
Francis Towne’s long road to recognition
Towne’s watercolours aren’t as ground-breaking as they were once made out to be, but they are definitely good enough to merit a revival
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Not-so-radical street art and the Cerne Abbas giant censored at the Palace of Westminster
Impressionism: Capturing Life
The show centres on figurative paintings by some of the artists that exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874,…
The art market is off to a cautious start in 2016
Were this week’s sales a true reflection of the market, minus the smoke and mirrors of third-party guarantees?
Situation terminal: can an artist improve Manchester Airport?
Rakewell ponders why an airport would install an artist in residence
The eccentric and enduring visions of Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs are some of the most hauntingly original of the 19th century.
Are there too many art fairs?
With several art fairs staged every week, are such events damaging to the more traditional art trade, or do they allow greater public engagement with art?
Samuel Rush Meyrick: the man behind the medieval revival
‘For students of arms and armour, Meyrick was the first and greatest of those giants on whose shoulders we stand.’
‘If we stay away from Tunisia, we are cowards’
The Bardo Museum in Carthage still bears the scars of last year’s terrorist attack. The best way to support it is to visit
Acquisitions of the Month: January 2016
Several museums have plugged gaps in their collections this month, while others have received some extraordinarily generous gifts
Martin Puryear
Multiple Dimensions One of the most renowned artists working today, Martin Puryear is celebrated for his elegant but playful sculpture…
Has the BBC made art boring?
If anything, the corporation should be taken to task for its desperate bid for accessibility