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The nude Archimedes making trouble in Hampshire
A naked statue of Archimedes has provoked a complaint in an English village
The patronage of remarkable princesses
Some royal tastemakers have better taste than others – as the remarkable legacy of three Hanoverian princesses shows
The Battle of No. 1 Poultry
No. 1 Poultry is now Britain’s youngest listed building, but it was once the site of a remarkable struggle between the developer and conservationists
‘These works resonate in America now’
Chris Killip’s photographs of the north of England are as relevant today as they were 30 years ago
A new way of looking at Raphael’s drawings
The artist used drawing as a way of brainstorming how his art related to the world
Do museum directors need curatorial experience?
It takes all manner of skills and qualities to run a top institution – or at least to do it well.
Venice must keep its Murano glass industry intact
The future of the historic craft will only be secure if contemporary artists and audiences understand it better
Native American art hasn’t changed, but museums have
The Metropolitan Museum is finally showing Native art in its American galleries. This is important, but only as a reflection on museums themselves
Stanley Spencer’s endless autobiography
The painter’s reams of autobiographical writing are as idiosyncratic as his art
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Luke Skywalker’s cereal box collection; Alex Jones’s ‘performance art’; Nice’s accidental Yves Klein art trail; and a reason to look forward to 8 June…
Roger Mayne, the ‘Laureate of Teenage London’
The Photographers’ Gallery hosts the first major London exhibition of Roger Mayne’s work since 1999
Pissarro was the unifying force behind Impressionism
This overdue survey gives some sense of Pissarro’s extraordinary range
Jim Dine’s six-decade experiment
The American artist is a maverick, especially in the world of printmaking
The Tate was right to look again at queer British art
Context is as crucial to this exhibition as the art itself. Tate strikes a tricky balance between the two
A Bruegel family reunion in Bath
The Holburne Museum reminds us that this entire family is worth celebrating – not just Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Which London shows are worth going indoors for?
Spring is here and the sun is out, so choose your exhibitions wisely…
It’s about time Vanessa Bell was judged on her own merits
It’s hard to separate Vanessa Bell from Bloomsbury, but this exhibition of her art is long overdue
Is youth culture a thing of the past?
London may soon have a museum of youth culture. Does this mean it’s over?
The fake feud between Picasso and Matisse
Shortly after Matisse’s death, Clive Bell called time on the artist’s rivalry with Picasso – and rightly so
The man in charge of modernising the Uffizi
Reforming Italy’s most famous museum is a huge and sensitive task for new director Eike Schmidt
The Della Robbia that escaped disaster
This glazed terracotta roundel by Andrea della Robbia was made for a palace that was promptly destroyed
The paintings that captured a desperate decade
How the American artists of the 1930s depicted a country that was on its knees
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