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Christo prepares to walk on water
Christo and his wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude wanted to walk on water nearly 40 years ago. The Floating Piers project this summer will achieve their dream.
Boris Johnson and the GLA are the true vandals of London
The mayor’s expansionist ambitions are ruining the city’s historic character
Farewell, Sir Peter Bazalgette. Your successor will need a thick skin
What the Arts Council England owes its outgoing Chairman
Cuts run deep: Is Australia’s ‘coup culture’ killing its cultural heart?
In the space of five years, Australia has seen five prime ministers, with wildly different attitudes to art and culture
Readings Held Worldwide for Condemned Poet and Artist Ashraf Fayadh
Hundreds attended events in support of Ashraf Fayadh, who faces the death sentence in Saudi Arabia
Libya’s threatened ancient history, and why you need to know about it
Here’s what we stand to lose if Libya’s heritage cannot be protected.
Tate Modern keeps it in the family with new director
The gallery has bucked the trend by appointing an internal candidate to its top job
‘It is impossible to overstate Bowie’s influence on our cultural landscape’
From performance art to painting, David Bowie’s legacy stretches far and wide
Reconstructing Syria’s heritage is a hopeful but distant dream
Replicas, digital records and long-term monitoring projects are all important in the race to preserve cultural history
Protesting against a historical statue is not just childish – it’s bigoted, too
‘Attitudes change, fortunately, but…things we now find offensive cannot be airbrushed away.’
Who owns the wreckage of the San José, and what should be done with it?
High drama under the high seas and issues of ownership and patrimony off the Colombian coast
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015)
Remembering the great pioneer of American abstraction, who has died at the age of 92
Where will London’s artists work?
As London’s former industrial areas are being redeveloped, artists are running out of affordable studio space. Can a city be a thriving cultural centre if its artists have nowhere to work?
The search is on for England’s missing public sculptures
Public sculpture was one marker of an ambitious, aspirant and generous society, the kind of world that we urgently need to be reminded of
Andrew Ciechanowiecki: 1924–2015
The art world has lost one of the most respected scholar-art dealers of the 20th century
Triumphant new European galleries open at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The museum’s take on ‘Europe 1600–1815’ is nuanced, witty and revelatory
The BBC should know better about university museums
A misleading story reflects a deeper problem in how museum news is reported in the general press
Nazi-era restitution claims are just the tip of the iceberg
Artworks were looted en masse throughout the 20th century: we need far better legislation to resolve the issue
Autumn Statement brings relief but also unanswered questions for the arts
Arts sector funding fared surprisingly well in the latest spending review, but questions remain, not least over the fate of municipal museums
It is hard to overstate the gravity of the Castelvecchio thefts
The loss of 17 masterpieces is a disaster for the Italian museum sector
The Apollo Award Winners 2015
Announcing Apollo’s Personality, Artist, Museum Opening, Exhibition, Book, Digital Innovation, and Acquisition of the Year
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One museum’s tribute to the murdered Syrian archaeologist, Khaled al-Asaad
How the MFA Boston is paying tribute to a respected scholar and humanist