How Canaletto constructed a better view of Venice
The artist would move churches around, erase rooftops, and even bend the Grand Canal straight if it allowed for a more harmonious scene
The melancholy grandeur of a 3D-printed mountain
Anya Gallaccio is building her own version of Wyoming’s Devil’s Tower in London, using a 3D printer. What does the work say about the relationship between man and nature?
Seeing the sea through the eyes of British artists
‘Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting’ at the Yale Center for British Art is a voyage of discovery
Family Man: the Foundling Museum presents another side to Jacob Epstein
A candid look at the artist’s portraits of his children
Review: The British Library goes Gothic
‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’, from Bram Stoker and to Wallace and Gromit
The Wallace Collection’s Great Gallery
The nuances of the new hang might be lost on the non-specialist, but overall the Wallace Collection’s refurbished gallery is magnificent
Are art installations the new video games?
Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?
Should photography in museums be allowed?
The relationship between photography and museums is a vexed one. Do attitudes need to change?
Review: ‘British Folk Art’ at Tate Britain
The charm and whimsy of ‘British Folk Art’ at Tate Britain isn’t at the expense of rigorous analysis
Changing Tastes: should museums try to teach ‘good’ taste?
Should museums try to preserve traditional notions of ‘good’ taste, or encourage new ways of thinking about art and culture?
Money talks: the latest list of art’s most powerful people
There’s not a single museum director on The Guardian’s latest list
Curator Chic: are arts professionals the new fashionistas?
A curator’s work is all about looking, and being looked at
Curators, connoisseurship and the art of looking
Connoisseurship is still valuable, and many art historians know it
Museum Etiquette: are there manners in museums anymore?
Of course we want museums to be accessible, friendly and interesting, but we also have an imperative to protect and preserve
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Museums have finally woken up to the potential of 3D printing
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