The founding director of Paris Musées worked indefatigably to serve her ideal of culture as a public good
Taken on his road trips across America, the photographer’s images from the 1970s are in a class of their own
This August marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in America
Built to give thanks for Venice’s deliverance from the plague, the church of Il Redentore remains the centre of an annual festival marking the event
The activist, educator and artist discusses a lifetime spent fighting for racial justice – and the role that images can play in this struggle
Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s four-volume treatise, newly translated and edited, deserves to be more widely read
How have art businesses coped with the crisis – and what might they look like post-lockdown?
The director of the National Gallery on what visitors can expect when the museum reopens – and how, while it’s been closed, it has been rethinking its relationship with its audience
Monuments to the American Civil War have locked in place partial versions of the past – but other stories will emerge when we know more about how and why they were erected
The role of leading Anglo-Jewish figures in the development of the fledgling museum deserves to be better known
The contested building was recently, for the first time, the site of the annual celebration of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
These modern monsters may look lonely, but they’re familiar figures – descendants of the Parisian beasts of Viollet-le-Duc and Charles Meryon
The pandemic has made existing problems in arts funding only too apparent. How can museums safeguard their futures?
Philip Hewat-Jaboor, chairman of Masterpiece London, and Tibetan art specialist Alice S. Kandell on spending more time with objects
The Argentinian-born artist, now in his tenth decade, reflects on a life devoted to trying new things
A documentary about the unlikely friendship between an artist and the man who stole her work raises tantalising questions about image-making and ownership
The statue of the 18th-century slave trader is the result of a 19th-century attempt to sanitise the past
A recent display at MoMA revealed the unexplored depths of an artist whose work sometimes seems all surface
The dealer and collector is usually a footnote in other people’s stories. A new biography makes him the main event
A project to raise funds for Amazonian communities also raises questions about the status of indigenous people in Peru
The collector, dealer and erstwhile actor had a remarkable eye for discovering works of art, often in the unlikeliest of places
As the museum passes an important milestone with its doors shut, Glenn Adamson considers what its collection has meant to him over the years
Churchill’s statue on Parliament Square is currently boxed up but, given his attitude to portraits, perhaps Churchill himself wouldn't mind
Hew Locke imagined redecorating the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston more than a decade ago. If only Bristol City Council had let him
