Has the National Gallery made Delacroix a bit...dull? Can a B-movie really be classed as art? And why is Barry Flanagan only famous for his hares?
The curator of 'Show your Wound' discusses his thorny choice of subject and changing ideas
Art inspired by science can be hit and miss. But here's an artist who really gets its beauty and complexity
The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is to store private collections – which is just the sort of collaboration the museum has always thrived on
There is more than you might think at stake for arts and culture in this referendum
The Belgian painter reveres the Old Masters but is 'ashamed' by the state of figurative painting today
An exhibition at the Courtauld proves few things are more tantalising than a beautiful manuscript under glass
LACMA just acquired an entire house – and no ordinary house at that
The Judges' Lodgings Museum in Lancaster is threatened with imminent closure. It should be a source of not only civic but national pride
The Impressionist has had a hard time of things recently. Will a new film win round the haters?
Sheena Wagstaff on the Met's ambitious plans for the Breuer building
The first Piero, the first Simone Martini, the first Raphael... 'Mrs Jack' brought them all to America
George Peabody's vision lives on, and we would do well to heed it today
Is the current trend for exhibitions exploring artistic influence just an excuse for a lack of focus?
What can museums do to deter would-be Thomas Crowns – and what are the risks they run rather more regularly?
The 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin was in part a rebellion of artists – and Dublin museums and galleries are making that clear this year
Censoring a 19th-century painting has come back to bite the social networking site
A key figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement, the designer should also be seen in the context of European modernism
The painters of the Hudson River School are now firmly recognised as pioneers of American art – and inspiring a new generation of artists
For 400 years, the Kano family dominated Japanese painting through its superior training and mastery of precious materials
An enlightening display of German rococo sculpture is full of style as well as substance
The display of erotic art from other traditions, be they Greco-Roman or Japanese, should make us think about what it meant to its original audiences
