Wine, Theatre and Poetry in the MFA Boston’s Greek galleries
Dionysius, Homer and a donkey-shaped drinking cup are some of characters in the new galleries
Acquisitions of the Month: September
From 17th-century embroideries to 20th-century photography: some notable recent museum acquisitions
The Week’s Muse: 27 September
National treasures up for sale; art and protest in Latin America; plaster casts and the Classics Cabal
The London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery
Art and books have always gone hand in hand…
National Gallery launches membership scheme
This is the third in a hat trick of recent changes intended to place public engagement at the heart of the gallery’s operations
The Week’s Muse: 20 September
Fountains, house museums and computer connoisseurs: a round-up of recent comment from the Muse Room
The Week’s Muse: 13 September
Alternative art schools; the Biennale des Antiquaires; the enduring appeal of the Warburg Institute; and Stephen Shore on Instagram
Creative schools: the artists taking art education into their own hands
Fees and funding cuts are taking their toll in the UK, but artists are a resourceful lot…
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in New York
Museum reopenings and big-name exhibitions take centre stage in New York this autumn
Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in London
The art world’s awake again after August’s sunny stasis. Which events stand out in London’s busy blockbuster season?
Acquisitions of the month: August
A quiet month for acquisitions, but not everyone’s been resting on their laurels…
The Week’s Muse: 30 August
The problem with posthumous art; a bitter exit for France’s Culture Minister; and why you should plant a poppy at the Tower of London this autumn
Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti leaves the French Cabinet
Filippetti left the Cabinet in the midst of a political crisis which resulted in a reshuffle this weekend
Gallery: ‘Perspectives: Chiharu Shiota’ at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery
Shiota’s installations reveal how memories and associations cling to certain objects
The Week’s Muse: 23 August
Bob and Roberta Smith stands up for art in schools; Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square; and the utopian appeal of geometric art
‘Art Party’: Bob and Roberta Smith’s defense of art in schools
We spoke to the artist at the head of a campaign to keep creativity on the school curriculum
Gallery: Olafur Eliasson turns Louisiana MoMA into a ‘Riverbed’
Eliasson’s new installation at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art lets a river overrun the gallery
The Week’s Muse: 16 August
Are art installations the new video games? Are adverts the new art installations? News and comment from the Muse Room…
Gallery: ‘Landscape, abstracted’ at the MFA Boston
For centuries, painters have experimented with the landscape. Where will today’s artists venture next?
Milking It: Delaware Art Museum will sell two more works of art
Winslow Homer’s ‘Milking Time’ and Alexander Calder’s ‘The Black Crescent’ are next up
The Week’s Muse: 9 August
A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room
Lights Out: Remembering the First World War
The UK’s monuments will go dark this evening, marking 100 years since the start of the First World War
Northampton Museums lose Arts Council Accreditation
The Sekhemka sale has quickly become something of a case study in the dangers of deaccessioning
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The Week’s Muse: 4 October
Art law and attribution; the Balfron Tower and Brutalism; and an end to love locks in Paris?