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Art the drive-in – the museum turned motorcade in Rotterdam
The Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam has launched a drive-thru exhibition – and it’s not the only culture you can see by car this summer, says Rakewell
The week in art news – museums and galleries destroyed in blast that devastated Beirut
Plus: Southbank Centre staff castigate management, major US museums make more staff redundant and artefacts privately restituted to Ecuador
Acquisitions of the Month: July 2020
More than 300 photographs at MoMA and an Aboriginal shield in Adelaide are among this month’s highlights
‘I was storing crates in my dining room’ – on launching a gallery during lockdown
Setting a brave example wasn’t what Niru Ratnam had in mind when he forged ahead with plans to open his new business during the pandemic
Morel compass – John Cage’s mania for mushrooms
For the avant-garde composer, mushroom-foraging was closely linked to his ideas about sound and spontaneity
Bible belters – in praise of Murillo’s Prodigal Son paintings
The six paintings have long languished in relative obscurity. Restored and on view in Dublin, they are finally getting their due
Private enterprise – the individuals who are taking restitution into their own hands
While museums deliberate about returning objects that were taken from their places of origin without consent, it is easier for individuals to act
Dressing for a pandemic, Picasso-style
The future of fashion may not be the most pressing concern but it’s hard not to fear the worst
‘For more than a thousand years this area has been the burial place of the great and the good of Cairo’
A short-sighted view of what counts as cultural heritage has led to the bulldozing of family tombs in the city’s oldest burial site
Status anxiety – the battle over culture in Bolivia
The sacking of two museum directors and the axing of the ministry for culture is part of a wider struggle about who and what culture is for
Celtic revival? Recording Ireland’s historic buildings
Would that the Buildings of Ireland series could be completed – the architectural riches of Central Leinster and Cork are well served by two new volumes
Losing face – iconoclasm in ancient Rome
The importance of public statuary and portraiture for the Romans is no better demonstrated than in the way images of personae non gratae were destroyed, disfigured or re-carved
Photo realism – an interview with Alfredo Jaar
The Chilean-born artist talks about his ambivalent attitude towards photography and his utopian feelings about art
Goya for gastronomes – and Donald Trump
The Trumps have a soft spot for Goya Foods, it seems – which sets Rakewell wondering whether the brand could make more of its painterly associations
When video art meets the music video
Black artists such as Jacolby Satterwhite and Arthur Jafa have made the most of the freedom – and mass audience – music videos can offer
‘Her photographs appear as an eloquent reminder to passers-by of a life cut short’
Khadija Saye was among the 72 people who died in the fire at Grenfell in 2017. A series of self-portraits she made that year is currently on display near the tower
Bones of contention – what does the discovery of human remains at the Chapelle Expiatoire mean?
The discovery of remains of victims of the Terror in a chapel dedicated to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette complicates our understanding of the monument
The space odyssey that went nowhere – ‘Spaceship Earth’, reviewed
Before ‘Big Brother’, there was Biosphere 2 – an experiment in utopian living that left its participants low on food and short of breath
‘Zagreb’s museums and historic sites are suffering severely’
Struck by both Covid-19 and a fierce earthquake, Croatia’s capital city and its cultural heritage need urgent help
Wheel of fortune – the life and achievements of Bernard Leach
A century after the founding of the Leach Pottery in St Ives, the ‘father of British studio pottery’ remains an influential, if contested, figure
Field work – is it time Mike Leigh made a film about crop circles?
Film fans can only hope that the director will turn his interest in these mysterious patterns to practical effect
Keeping it casual – Stephen Shore’s encounters with the everyday
Taken on his road trips across America, the photographer’s images from the 1970s are in a class of their own
Ground control – how Bronze Age builders reshaped the landscape
A pit circle identified near Stonehenge helps us understand how prehistoric cultures saw themselves in the world
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‘An unparalleled talent’ – a tribute to Delphine Levy (1969–2020)
The founding director of Paris Musées worked indefatigably to serve her ideal of culture as a public good