Keeping the national museums free to enter comes with significant hidden costs, but admission fees are not the answer
A 1930s structure has been repurposed to house the collection of Nicolai Tangen. It’s certainly impressive, but how coherent is the work on show?
Museums often have a responsibility to reflect major events, but should be careful not to disregard seemingly smaller stories
Chantal Akerman and Valie Export have both deployed aggression as a means of artistic expression
Collectors Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras are bringing new life to a 16th-century Jesuit school
Christopher Wood’s account of a turning point in early Renaissance art is typically demanding and always stimulating
Comparing the spreads on offer in scenes by Manet and Monet suggests that eating outdoors offered the artists a very particular kind of freedom
The porcelain marvels produced in the 18th century combine opulence with naturalism to heart-stopping effect
By exhibiting Two Figures in the Grass the artist succeeded in attracting the controversy he was almost certainly courting
Paying hundreds of pounds for a dessert may seem excessive, but we wouldn’t think it an unreasonable price for a work of art
Ahead of his Tate Britain commission, the artist tells Apollo about being inspired by Tupac and Cy Twombly and wanting to involve communities in everything he makes
Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine
The Met’s return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in Cambodia shows the difficulty of recovering the origins of looted objects
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done
Seeing art is often a purely visual experience, but we shouldn't be afraid of exploring our other senses in the gallery
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem
Cultural institutions are increasingly cutting ties with fossil fuel sponsors, but art and oil have long been intertwined in surprising ways
In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories
In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach
The museum is founded on the collection of John Julius Angerstein and, 200 years later, the banker’s taste is still making itself felt
The wares on offer at the event this month are enough to bowl over any ceramics aficionado
If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement
Wine has been part of the lifeblood of Crete since the Bronze Age – and one grower in particular is reaching back thousands of years for inspiration
It seems as if arts criticism is becoming a treat for political journalists – but perhaps the job should be treated a little more seriously
