12 Days: Highlights of 2015
An exceptional selection of exhibitions are opening in London this year, and some major museum openings are taking place further afield
An exceptional selection of exhibitions are opening in London this year, and some major museum openings are taking place further afield
Some fascinating exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA are closing in early January. Last chance...
Has the Heritage Lottery Fund been a golden ticket for British heritage over the last two decades, or has it invested unwisely?
Thanks to a meticulous and inventive renovation project, the US now has a really good national museum of design
The British Museum lends a Parthenon marble to Russia; the Cooper Hewitt reopens in New York; and another art theft in Italy
Now is the time to see some of the most spectacular tapestries around
The Rijkmuseum's new Philips Wing has recently opened with an exhibition of modern photography
An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What's behind the rich pickings?
Last week brought two shows to London that claim to present the scope of new contemporary art being made in two overlapping locations: the UK and its capital. The first – ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ at the ICA (until 25 January 2015) – is a large, rambling exhibition spread over two floors of Carlton House Terrace […]
Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, London, is Apollo's Personality of the Year
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, is transformed by a new extension and refurbishment
Jeremy Warren’s catalogue of the medieval and Renaissance sculptures in the Ashmolean Museum is a tour de force of scholarly writing
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?
Portraits of scientific figures such as Isaac Newton and John Harrison reveal their shifting cultural status
Art education has come a long way since the 1950s. Is the Basic Design 'revolution' a little dated?
Warhol not only made art about mass consumption, he made art for mass consumption too
We asked the curators of the Arthur M. Sackler gallery's latest show to pick their favourite exhibits
News from the art world: art awards, auction records, and a royal stamp of approval
It's riveting to see the choices and accidents that produced some of history's most iconic photographs
A round-up of news and comment: First World War cartoons; a $500 million gift to LACMA; and the difficulty with digital art