Forum: Should UK museums reintroduce entrance charges?
As some UK museums face cuts of up to 40 per cent, Bill Ferris and Alistair Brown discuss whether they should consider charging entrance fees again.
Book Competition
Your chance to win ‘Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns’, by Stacey Sell & Hugo Chapman
Museum Trips: Five works of art broken by clumsy gallery-goers
In Taiwan this week a young boy stumbled into a 17th-century painting and broke it. He’s not the first…
Book Competition
Your chance to win ‘Object Lessons: The Visualisation of Nineteenth-Century Life Sciences’, by George Loudon
How Edmund de Waal came to love the colour white
The artist is to curate a show about the colour at the Royal Academy
UK government extends export bar on £16 million Sekhemka statue
Will anyone step forward to buy the work for the nation?
The Gardner Museum Theft 25 Years On
The FBI may know who stole them, but the location of 13 masterpieces remains a mystery
Art Outlook
All-out strike at the National Gallery; Gulf Labor in Venice; €80million for cultural projects in Italy; and a new Global CEO for Bonhams
Italian government invests €80million in heritage sites
The headline winners are the Uffizi and the Colosseum
Acquisitions of the Month: July 2015
Which major works have made it into public collections this month?
Is investing in the past the way of the future?