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London Diary: fine art in ‘sinful Soho’
The current show at Marian Goodman gallery is a blast, and White Cube has come up with a winner, too
Cuts run deep: Is Australia’s ‘coup culture’ killing its cultural heart?
In the space of five years, Australia has seen five prime ministers, with wildly different attitudes to art and culture
Readings Held Worldwide for Condemned Poet and Artist Ashraf Fayadh
Hundreds attended events in support of Ashraf Fayadh, who faces the death sentence in Saudi Arabia
Omar Kholeif on how the internet transformed art
‘I’ve always been interested in artists who stretch the formal limits of technology’
Photography as a medium seems richer than ever
It’s important that photography retains its social, human edge as we enter another turbulent year
Leading light – the stained-glass windows of Wilhelmina Geddes
A key figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement, the designer should also be seen in the context of European modernism
Acquisitions of the Month: December 2015
Several museums have received wonderful gifts this Christmas…
Sir John Soane’s private apartments are a public treasure
The restoration at the Soane Museum is a masterpiece of forensic work
Rodin moves back to Paris
The sculptor would have approved of the Musée Rodin’s sensitive refurbishment
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Neal Benezra on the reopening of the SFMOMA and why 2016 will be an exciting year for the entire San Francisco Bay Area
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Maggie Gray looks forward to British modernists at Tate Britain and Dulwich Picture Gallery, antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum and the Fitzwilliam, and the Queen’s House at 400
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Imelda Barnard selects some post-war and contemporary art highlights, from Etel Adnan at the Serpentine, to Marcel Broodthaers at MoMA, and Anri Sala at the New Museum
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015)
Remembering the great pioneer of American abstraction, who has died at the age of 92
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Fatema Ahmed looks forward to John Akomfrah’s films at Lisson Gallery, a second edition of Photo London, and a mysterious show curated by Michel Houellebecq
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Xavier Salomon’s highlights include Old Masters in Italy, the Le Nain brothers in the US, and a celebration of Hieronymus Bosch in Madrid
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Thomas Marks on Sicily at the British Museum and Ashmolean, Vittorio Cini’s paintings from the Veneto, and the Parma School in Rome
Andrea del Sarto’s perfect chalk drawings
The Italian artist’s masterful works fully explore the possibilities of chalk
It is more important than ever to protect our museums
‘It is more important than ever to defend museums and what they make possible’
Is the German Cultural Property Protection Act to be welcomed?
Does draft cultural property legislation in Germany threaten to damage German cultural life, or is it necessary for the safeguarding of the country’s heritage?
Was there no Celtic Revival to vie with the Gothic?
‘The Celtic Revival in architecture depended upon ancient shrines, castles, and vernacular buildings’
‘All kinds of abstract art were possible.’ Alan Bowness on post-war British painting
Sir Alan Bowness’s art collection goes on display at a new public gallery at Downing College Cambridge
‘This exhibition conflates the gallery and the brothel’
Sensationalist displays are no way to explore art and prostitution, writes Lynda Nead – and the Musée d’Orsay has got carried away with selling sex
Farewell, Sir Peter Bazalgette. Your successor will need a thick skin
What the Arts Council England owes its outgoing Chairman