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If you want to be mayor, you really ought to know more about London’s museums

Goldsmith and Khan clearly aren't museum buffs – and that could be a real problem

The spirit of the Renaissance, via YouTube

Should public art be in the public domain? Sweden doesn’t think so

A recent court case involving Wikimedia in Sweden has taken the art world by surprise

London needs a spring clean, or perhaps a period of stagnation…

The galleries haven't changed that much, but the city itself has, and not for the better

Spotlight on Seattle, where Asian and Western art collide

The Association for Asian Studies chose Seattle for its annual conference this year, and with good reason

Crumbs! Here’s a gallery full of somebody else’s seedy secrets

'I began wasting my god-given talent drawing pictures of sexy women the way I liked ‘em'. An exhibition of R. Crumb's work invites us all to become voyeurs

Has Tate Modern secretly switched directors?

Painting gardens? More of a radical pursuit than you think

Monet and chums were doing something genuinely revolutionary when they stepped out into their gardens

The long tradition of hating Henry Moore

Let's hope the disgruntled students at Columbia University don't take their protests against Moore's work to these extremes...

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The garden bridge gets hijacked on Twitter. Plus, how Damien Hirst like his fish cooked (clue: he's fussy)

Found in Florence! The lost tribe of Leonardo

Rakewell likes nothing better than a good bit of amateur genealogy

Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon and five Marilyn Monroes

For a handy reminder of why Warhol was so radical, head to Gagosian Gallery's 'Avedon Warhol' exhibition in London

Palmyra’s legacy is everywhere – and ISIS could never have erased it

The city's ancient ruins inspired buildings around the world, many of which are now heritage sites themselves

Painting steals the show at Art Cologne

Contemporary painting in Germany is flourishing, if the highlights of Cologne's art fair are anything to go by

Very clever software, but not great art

The techno-connoisseurship involved in the 'Next Rembrandt' project is fun and interesting, so what's the problem?

Should museums be ideology-free?

A new book which argues that museums should be above politics is hardly above politics itself

Acquisitions of the Month: March 2016

Bonnie Prince Charlie makes a triumphant return to Edinburgh, while the NGA add hundreds of works to its huge collection

Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London

Hajra Waheed's exhibitions at BALTIC and the Mosaic Rooms are full of strange, evocative details

Inside Cuba’s changing art world

Havana's contemporary artists face a contradictory mix of opportunities and restrictions

Dorset, in a Mediterranean light

John Craxton is known today for his sparkling paintings of Greece. But he first found inspiration in the colder, darker landscapes of rural England

Drastic reform is the only way to save England’s churches

Good news, then, that the Chancellor is forming a task force to look into the issue

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

This is reckless restoration of the very best kind

Elizabeth Price's new video is an audacious act of extrapolation, that asks deep questions about our impulse to preserve, restore, and destroy