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Dinosaurs, dioramas, and the strange world of natural history
Paleoart and dioramas are designed to depict prehistory and the natural world – but what they really reveal are our own hopes and fears
Why museums need their own ethics departments
Ethical questions about art arise on a seemingly weekly basis. It’s time for museums to invest in sustained, open-ended research
How India inspired Howard Hodgkin
‘Painting India’ at the Hepworth Wakefield includes many of the artist’s most engaging and joyful paintings
Acquisitions of the month: August 2017
This month’s acquisitions include a major collection of African art, a treasure from Queen Victoria’s personal collection, and a beautiful 18th-century landscape
Ooh aah Museum Cantona!
The French footballer-cum-actor has his heart set on opening a museum in Sardinia
The traces of the Tudor palace at Greenwich are a truly remarkable find
Archaeological discoveries at Greenwich are rare – which makes finding the remains of the Tudor palace even more significant
The mysteries of collecting
They don’t make collectors like Francesco Federico Cerruti any more. Or do they?
Do museums need to be more socially engaged?
Alistair Hudson and Elisabeth Callihan ask whether today’s museums could be more useful
Riding the wave: Plymouth’s burgeoning art scene
The city’s cultural ambitions are growing in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage
Getting round the Great Firewall of China
Will increased restrictions on the internet in China be too much for new media artists?
Big Ben is the least of the Palace of Westminster’s problems
The greatest Gothic Revival building in the world is facing catastrophe unless MPs clear out
The other side of Surrealism
As male Surrealists depicted women as muses, sphinxes, and goddesses, women Surrealists sought to turn this imagery on its head
A potted history of studio ceramics
Studio potters continue to push the boundaries of their medium in Britain
Staring at the zeitgeist
August Sander’s photographs and Otto Dix’s paintings take an unflinching look at Weimar Germany
A nosey parker’s paradise in London
Pore over Matisse’s prized possessions and get a glimpse into Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s home at these fascinating exhibitions
Painting for pleasure: an interview with Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann talks about capturing the moment – and explains why ‘performance art’ is a demeaning term
A sci-fi spectacular at the Barbican
This is an exhibition targeted at the senses more than the brain, more Star Wars than Stalker
The rich artistic world of Giovanni da Rimini
Very few panel paintings by the Italian Trecento artist survive. Currently, all of them are at the National Gallery in London
Over Venice? Here are the best biennials to visit this autumn
There are plenty of events opening in the coming months, from Bamako’s photography festival to the sprawling, ‘borderless’ BienalSur
D.H. Lawrence among the Etruscans
Is D.H. Lawrence’s account of the archaeological sites of Etruria still relevant today?
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Aleppo: what remains?
The historic city has suffered major damage, but the worst unkindness we could offer it now is to write it off as ‘destroyed’