‘Anyone who is interested in the Renaissance should be interested in medals’
It may be a small and specialist market, but it is still possible to find exquisite portrait medals at affordable prices
It may be a small and specialist market, but it is still possible to find exquisite portrait medals at affordable prices
A new book series explores the strange subcultures of post-war Britain, from CB radio enthusiasts to alien investigators
Will the new Colosseum archaeological park improve the upkeep of Rome's most important ruins?
Featuring Goya, teddy bears and suicide vests, ‘The Disasters of Everyday Life’ is puerile, provocative, and superb
Plus: Giorgio de Chirico’s writings, Enrico David’s sculptures, and reflections on W.G. Sebald
Plus: exhibitions of William Turnbull, Gino De Dominicis, and Tim Head
Plus: Brice Marden’s painstaking exploration of paint and an Italian protégé of Duchamp makes his debut in London
Art news daily: 28 September
The Oxford museum's lavish new publication is a triumph of scholarship
Artists and urban planners are finding creative ways to brighten up the concrete blocks and barriers that pepper today's urban spaces
Sound art often seems like video art's poor relation in museums, but is its struggle for status starting to pay off?
Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa's new museum, is deliberately outward-looking
The procedures for protecting England’s historic buildings are now 70 years old. Is the system still fit for purpose?
A statue of the inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle has been erected in Moscow
The Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze has upped its game under Fabrizio Moretti's leadership
A Twitter tussle between two London museums, gallery doppelgangers, and Howard Hodgkin's taste in television
With the Istanbul Biennial comes a host of exciting satellite exhibitions around the city
The closure of an entire unit, specialising in the policing of a complex but valuable part of our national economy, must be wrong
What did the Pre-Raphaelite painters see when they looked at the Old Masters – and how did they use what they saw?
The artist's ongoing record of what was not there becomes more thought-provoking as time passes