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The Rake’s Progress: The Week in Gossip

The return of the fig leaf, Thomas Heatherwick’s selective statistics, and a museum director in the postroom

29 Jan 2016

Rewriting the past: must Rhodes fall?

A statue of Cecil Rhodes will stand at Oriel College, Oxford, in place despite calls for its removal, but debates about ‘erasing history’ rumble on

29 Jan 2016
Ai Weiwei shows the world his passport via Instagram.

What’s in store at the National Galleries of Scotland?

Thousands of artworks are hidden away in Edinburgh’s Granton Stores. We got an exclusive tour…

28 Jan 2016

Champagne feminism at the Saatchi Gallery and celebrity women in Wapping

Two exhibitions in London tackle the role and representation of women in art – with decidedly mixed results

27 Jan 2016

Switzerland puts $2 million into disputed art research

Art News Daily : 27 January

27 Jan 2016

Will listing post-war public art really help to save it?

Historic England’s last-ditch efforts to focus public attention on public art

27 Jan 2016
Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm. Photo: Cambridge Archaeological Unit

Unearthing the secrets of East Anglia’s Bronze Age settlers

The discoveries at Must Farm reveal a lot about life 3,000 years ago. But one big question remains…

26 Jan 2016

Temporary export bar for Bol portrait

Art News Daily : 26 January

26 Jan 2016

Photographing ‘vice’ on the Varna Road

Janet Mendelsohn’s photographs at Ikon gallery capture the human face of Birmingham’s most notorious district

26 Jan 2016

Egyptian Museum staff face tribunal over ‘botched beard’

Art News Daily : 25 January

25 Jan 2016
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The Rake’s Progress: Last Week in Gossip

Harry Styles turns to painting, the new British Museum director’s penchant for Prince, and why Arts Council initiatives sound like second-rate action films

25 Jan 2016

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

25 Jan 2016

Post-war public art listed in the UK

Art News Daily : 22 January

22 Jan 2016

Boris Johnson and the GLA are the true vandals of London

The mayor’s expansionist ambitions are ruining the city’s historic character

22 Jan 2016
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The curious incident of the dog on Gormley’s coastline

British sculptor Antony Gormley has a furry new fan

22 Jan 2016

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez’, by Laura Cumming

22 Jan 2016
Madrid's Museo del Prado will welcome a new director ahead of its 200th birthday in 2019

Art and Migration in Modern Britain: Apollo event at the London Art Fair

Join us this Friday for a one-off event

21 Jan 2016

Farewell, Sir Peter Bazalgette. Your successor will need a thick skin

What the Arts Council England owes its outgoing Chairman

21 Jan 2016

In praise of modern Scottish women

How did the Scottish women who went to progressive art schools fare in a reactionary art world?

20 Jan 2016

ISIS destroys Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery

Art News Daily : 20 January

20 Jan 2016
Australia's Crumbling Cultural Sector - Apollo Magazine

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

20 Jan 2016

Bursting bubbles at the Saatchi Gallery

Great to have a show dedicated to women artists – but why the baffling title?

19 Jan 2016