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Do children need museums of their own?
The reinvention of the Museum of Childhood as Young V&A has been a great success. Should more institutions follow its example and become younger at heart?
Dessert trolleys are on the move again, with delightful results
An old-fashioned way of bringing in cakes and custards is beginning to feel rather modern again
How to dress like Jane Austen
The Library of Congress’s Literary Costume Ball has set Rakewell thinking about the pros and cons of taking sartorial inspiration from famous authors
The Jewish footballers who left everything out on the field
An exhibition in Vienna tackles the involvement of Jewish players in some of Europe’s oldest clubs – and how those clubs acknowledge this history
British Museum director Hartwig Fischer announces immediate departure after suspected thefts
Plus: South-east Asian countries are demanding return of looted objects from Denver Art Museum, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928–1978)
The Getty Center makes a case for the critic and photographer’s important role in the development of art history in his home country
The eye-popping posters that promoted Egyptian films
The Egyptian film industry came to dominate the Arab world – and poster makers did much to secure its hold on the popular imagination
Can selling artworks in small pieces yield big dividends?
A new breed of business is offering investors shares in blue-chip artworks – and making big claims about their profitability
Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line
The Iranian artist’s arresting images illuminate displaced communities and experiences of migration
Chaïm Soutine: Against the Current
The emigré artist bucked the trends he encountered in 1920s Paris to carve out his own path
Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s
How radical new ways of making art emerged in the period following the Korean war
Four things to see: The art of exploration
On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, we consider the history of exploration through four objects including a map of sea monsters and a robot used for navigation
The return of the retro ice-cream van
The vintage trucks in London’s parks provide soft serve with an outsize dollop of nostalgia – and do it in style
Can Helsinki’s modern architecture grow old gracefully?
Finland’s questing version of modernism, as championed by Alvar Aalto, went hand in hand with the development of social democracy
Gertrude Jekyll and the making of Munstead Wood
The first garden created by the designer for a house by Edwin Lutyens has been bought by the National Trust – preserving a vital piece of history
Around the galleries – British Art Fair welcomes a fresh crop of collectors
Under new owners, this stalwart of the London fair calendar shows that a focus on British art needn’t be parochial
The Scottish artist who could paint up a storm
From the September 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I first encountered William McTaggart’s The Storm (1890) when…
British Museum sacks staff member accused of stealing from collections
Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats
A night to remember at the Eiffel Tower
It has been a monumental week for Paris’s leading tourist attraction. Let us hope recent events have distracted La Dame de Fer from an unhappy matter of the heart
Taking a Stand: Käthe Kollwitz
Works by the German artist with a lifelong commitment to social justice are juxtaposed with installations by Mona Hatoum
Jessie Kleemann: Running Time
The Greenlandic artist has spent three decades challenging the colonisation and romanticisation of her homeland
Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone
The Los Angeles County Museum shows that stone isn’t just a material to be shaped, but also something to be painted upon
Graphic Design in the Middle Ages
The Getty explores how design considerations shaped the interpretation of medieval texts
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The laws regarding Native American remains leave too much up to museums
In the absence of clearer rules, institutions should obey the spirit and not just the letter of the law – and be more careful with material they may have to return