Artists and urban planners are finding creative ways to brighten up the concrete blocks and barriers that pepper today's urban spaces
Charitable efforts to end prostitution in 18th-century London took many forms, and left behind some remarkable objects
Art news daily: 26 September
The design for Millicent Fawcett's statue breaks the mould, but Parliament Square is a problematic site
It's time for leading cultural figures to work with the state to reform Irish heritage protection
Art news daily: 25 September
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?
The painters of New Spain have been misunderstood for centuries, but their work seems to be entering the mainstream at last
Two wax sculptures of art impresarios were ceremonially lit today in Florence's Piazza della Signoria
Art news daily : 22 September
The vast cemeteries built in 19th-century Italy can still tell us much about civic pride
Art news daily : 21 September
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
The photographer takes us on an idiosyncratic tour of Oxford University and introduces us to some of the remarkable individuals behind the scenes
Art news daily : 20 September
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
Art news daily : 19 September
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?
Art news daily : 18 September
