Video in demand? The nostalgic appeal of VHS
Videos have become relics of a bygone era – but they are attracting a new following, glitches and all
A taste of the Uffizi, with Tuscany’s top chefs
Videos of top Italian chefs chewing over the Uffizi’s collection have a delightfully homemade flavour
The Victorian adventurers who pitched their tent for eternity
Richard and Isabel Burton are buried in a quiet churchyard in south London – but their remarkable tomb is a fitting monument to these insatiable travellers
The week in art news – Amnesty report points to massacre in Ethiopian town of Axum
Plus: Swiss museums reopen next week, while UK museums must wait until May | Experts confirm message on The Scream is by Munch | and National Gallery in London and Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin update Hugh Lane bequest deal
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Bye, Robot: a farewell to Daft Punk
Daft Punk weren’t always robots – but it’s how they’ll be remembered
Apollo and the Warburg Institute present ‘Cinema and the Museum’
Register now for the next event in our ‘Museums of the Mind’ series – John Akomfrah, Emilie Bickerton and Deborah N. Landis in conversation with Fatema Ahmed about ‘Cinema and the Museum’
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‘The thing is to be brave’ – Maggi Hambling toughs it out
From that scandalous scallop to her Mary Wollstonecraft monument, Maggi Hambling is no stranger to controversy
Art without borders – an interview with Nalini Malani
The artist talks about how the history of modern India has shaped her life and her desire to reach a wide audience
March 2021
• The world of Noel Coward
• Has the UK government abandoned the arts?
• An interview with Gillian Wearing
• Francis Bacon’s obsession with beasts
Plus: the tent-tomb of Richard Burton, the pros and cons of colourising old photographs, Louis Kahn’s concrete castles, the Royal Collection’s most attentive royal curator, and the Uffizi’s new cooking show
For the women of Venice, the fiddly art of bead-stringing is worth fighting for
Stringing glass beads was once the main work available to Venetian women – but it’s now a protected craft pursued by only a handful of skilled artists
What’s on Oliver Dowden’s walls?
The Secretary of State for Culture has paintings by Lubaina Himid and Charles Mozley in his office – but perhaps video art is more his thing?
The merchant from Moscow who fell for the Parisian avant-garde
Ivan Morozov built one of the greatest modern art collections in the world – but only a century after his death is his legacy being recognised
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The Swiss museums leading the charge to reopen
Museums in Switzerland have appealed to the government to let them reopen – and French museums are following suit
If shops can reopen in April, why can’t museums?
Museums in England will have to wait until May to reopen but shops, gyms and libraries are set to open in April. What’s the logic in that?
An architectural frieze is the icing on the cake, for a building
They’re the classic way to embellish a building – and for all their suspicion of ornament, even modern architects went in for them
The battle to save London’s mulberry trees
Mulberry trees are rare in the city, yet more than one is currently under threat – including the oldest tree in the East End
Keeping time – the Tunisian clock monuments that tell of a bygone regime
A decade after the uprisings that led to the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the clocks he loved remain
How Naples made a saint of Maradona
Saints loom large in the streets of Naples – and now perhaps none more so than the legendary Napoli player
‘That hyena in petticoats’: how artists have portrayed Mary Wollstonecraft
The pioneering advocate for women’s rights has inspired many attempts to catch her likeness and spirit – but what can these portraits tell us about her legacy?
How to see the world like Wes Anderson
All the world’s a set for the director’s films, according to an enjoyably idiosyncratic travel guide
Ottilie W. Roederstein
The reopening of the Kunsthaus Zürich brings another chance to see the work of the once hugely successful Swiss modernist
Masterpieces in Miniature: Treasures from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection
Sparkling objets d’art from the 16th to the 20th century go on view at DIVA in Antwerp
Golden Mummies of Egypt
The North Carolina Art Museum explores life and death in Egypt in the era after the reign of the pharaohs
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And
Since the early ’80s, the American artist has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptualism. A survey at the Brooklyn Museum
In defence of the Stonehenge road tunnel
Plans to sink a dual carriageway beneath Stonehenge have been heavily criticised – but the tunnel will improve our experience of the site, writes Timothy Darvill