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Scottish arts funding is precarious, but at least people are engaged enough to get cross about it
There was much controversy over cultural spending last year, and as cuts start to bite in 2017, there may well be again
The Art Strike against Trump reminds us why art really matters
The Art Strike brings art back to the real world and those values we need to cherish
Philip Guston’s Nixon drawings are a lesson in satire
It’s hard not to draw parallels between Guston’s biting caricatures of Richard Nixon and today’s political climate
‘I used to think art could change the world’
Ahead of a retrospective across three UK venues, Lubaina Himid discusses how black British art has evolved over the past three decades
Paul Nash’s commitment to the English landscape
The artist’s feeling for place is a constant throughout his work – in both peacetime and war
The V&A springs a surprise with Tristram Hunt
His appointment as V&A director is surprising but could prove inspired
The glamorous family behind one of Sargent’s best-loved paintings
A personal history of a great painting currently on show in New York
It’s art school, but not as we know it
Tate and Central Saint Martins have taken it upon themselves to ‘playfully reinvent’ things
How long can our great civic museums hold out?
Kirklees Council’s proposal to sell off Francis Bacon’s ‘Figure Study II’ is just a taste of things to come
What will become of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry?
Britain’s oldest manufacturing company, whose origins date back to 1420, is to close this May. What will happen to its historic home?
When Facebook nixed a naughty Neptune
Facebook recently censored a photograph of Giambologna’s Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. But did its software notice the sculpture’s naughty side?
Sotheby’s takes a risk on a potential Velázquez
A ‘bodegón’ thought to be by Velázquez, a Tiepolo head study, and a stag-antler chair are just some of the highlights headed to auction this month
An alternative vision of life in Letchworth, the world’s first Garden City
The radicalism of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City is often overlooked, but Letchworth is an utopian success
10 things we didn’t expect in 2016
It’s been a memorable year in the art world for all sorts of reasons…
How life goes on in a ruined Roman palace
The ruins of Diocletian’s Palace in Split are still inhabited – and they don’t look that different from how they did to Robert Adam in the 1750s
Wake up Jonathan Jones! British art is not just about Turner
British modernism is having a ‘moment’ and Jonathan Jones is displeased. Why is he so upset, and what does any of it have to do with Brexit?
The 50-year rescue of Vasari’s flood-damaged masterpiece
Giorgio Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’ was severely damaged in the devastating Florence floods of 1966. Fifty years later, it’s back on display after one of the most complex conservation projects ever undertaken
Michelangelo Pistoletto goes from rags to riches at Blenheim Palace
The Italian artist uses humble materials to promote a high-minded utopian message. How does his work fare in such opulent surroundings?
‘There was always good and bad figurative art’
The figurative artists of the 1920s and ’30s should not be considered secondary to their abstract contemporaries – as numerous recent exhibitions have shown
Westminster Cathedral’s ceilings like the sky
The influence of glittering Byzantine churches can be found in the impressive mosaics of Westminster Cathedral – including a new work by Tom Phillips
Trouble ahead for New York’s museums
After years of expansion, funding is a major issue for the city’s museums. How will they fare if the Trump administration provokes fresh culture wars?
Bruce McLean: the artist who doesn’t really believe in making art
Bruce McLean’s new paintings may seem like a departure from his earlier conceptual pieces – but not for the artist
One photographer’s spiritual struggle in Jerusalem
In 1853 Auguste Salzmann went to Jerusalem to photograph religious sites. The results, on show at the Metropolitan Museum, are an insight into his own faith
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