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The artist Susan Hiller in 2014.

Susan Hiller’s search for the right medium

‘What’s happened to the witch, the German puppet witch?’ Susan Hiller enquires of the waitress…

9 Feb 2016

Impending closure for many UK regional museums

Art News Daily : 8 February

8 Feb 2016

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

8 Feb 2016

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Not-so-radical street art and the Cerne Abbas giant censored at the Palace of Westminster

7 Feb 2016

Strength in numbers: stars of Netherlandish drawing, from Frans Floris to Rubens

‘The absence of big names is one of the joys of the exhibition.’ A revelatory display of drawings puts works by lesser-known Netherlandish masters in the spotlight.

A ‘dull period’ for British architecture?

Art News Daily : 5 February

5 Feb 2016

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?

5 Feb 2016
Rakewell

Arks and car parks at the Creation Museum

Spare a thought for the poor souls at the Creation Museum, says Rakewell, whose ambitions are being held up by red tape

5 Feb 2016

National museum in Yemen hit by shellfire

Art News Daily : 4 February

4 Feb 2016

One museum’s tribute to the murdered Syrian archaeologist, Khaled al-Asaad

How the MFA Boston is paying tribute to a respected scholar and humanist

4 Feb 2016

Death sentence overturned for Ashraf Fayadh

Art News Daily : 3 February

3 Feb 2016
Rakewell

Situation terminal: can an artist improve Manchester Airport?

Rakewell ponders why an airport would install an artist in residence

3 Feb 2016

Carolee Schneemann brings chaos, mess and erotic liberation to Salzburg

Never have chaos and excess been presented so clearly and coherently…

3 Feb 2016

A new work by Hieronymus Bosch discovered in Kansas

Art News Daily : 2 February

2 Feb 2016

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.

Art of Protest: Student Unrest at Berkeley

Modern student protest was invented at Berkeley

2 Feb 2016

‘Paddington Shard’ scrapped…for the time being

Art News Daily : 1 February

1 Feb 2016

Titles of artworks can obstruct how we interpret artistic meaning

But changing an artwork’s title is hardly the same as pulling down a statue

1 Feb 2016

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?

1 Feb 2016
Lord Eglinton dressed as the Lord of the Tournament

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.’

1 Feb 2016
The chorus of the harem (former ‘Virgil’s Hall’) at the Bardo National Museum, Tunis

‘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

1 Feb 2016

‘This is the best of the Roman tradition’: A new mosaic unveiled in Israel

Archaeologist Amir Gorzalczany from the Israel Antiquities Authority tells Apollo about an exciting new discovery

1 Feb 2016

Acquisitions of the Month: January 2016

Several museums have plugged gaps in their collections this month, while others have received some extraordinarily generous gifts

31 Jan 2016