Acquisitions of the Month: July
Deaccessioning is in the news, but what of the museums that have been acquiring new work?
Edinburgh Art Festival: what not to miss
Heading to Edinburgh? Here are six fine art exhibitions to visit while you’re out there…
New Art Gallery at Goldsmiths
Plans have been unveiled for a new gallery at Goldsmiths, to be designed by London-based architecture collective Assemble
The Week’s Muse: 26 July
Are encyclopaedic museums concentrating too much on contemporary art? News and comment from the Muse Room
Magnus Renfrew to leave Art Basel for Bonhams Asia
Renfrew, who set up Art HK (now Art Basel in Hong Kong) in 2008, will start at Bonhams this September as Deputy Chairman, Asia
Otto Piene: 1928–2014
The influential artist died on 17 July, shortly after the opening of an exhibition of his work in Berlin
The Week’s Muse: 19 July
Should photography be allowed in museums? Are the decorative arts in decline? Would you download a work of art?
Art Everywhere: which works will fare best on the billboards?
‘Art Everywhere’ have announced the images that will displayed across the UK this summer
The Week’s Muse: 12 July
News and comment from the Muse Room: we’re delighted to announce the judging panel for 40 Under 40, a new supplement…
Yorkshire Sculpture Park named Art Fund’s Museum of the Year
‘A perfect fusion of art and landscape’ the YSP has been named Museum of the Year 2014
The Week’s Muse: 5 July
News and comment from the Muse Room: arts funding winners and losers, Scottish contemporary artists, and the women behind abstraction
Brown’s London Art Weekend
Susan Moore and Emma Crichton-Miller will lead tours of Mayfair and St James’s galleries as part of the first London Art Weekend
The Week’s Muse: 28 June
A round-up of news and comment from The Muse Room: Nicholas Penny’s retirement, the Mauritshuis reopening, and significance of selfies
Restrain your selfie: a defence of the self-portrait
Instead of conflating ‘selfies’ and self-portraits, shouldn’t museums stand up for historic art as worthy in its own right?
Decorated and Replicated: the Cave of Pont-d’Arc
The Decorated Cave of Pont-d’Arc is 36,000 years old and the oldest cultural property on UNESCO’s lists. Its new replica is set to open in 2015.
The Week’s Muse: 21 June
The Venice Architecture Biennale, the Battle of Orgreave, digital catalogues, portrait busts and a critique of Richard Mosse… comment from the Muse Room
The Week’s Muse: 14 June
News, comment and opinion from this week’s Muse Room: arts and crafts, ivory, twitter, public art, hidden stores and a $20 million stamp
The De Morgan Centre in Wandsworth will close on 28 June
The De Morgan Foundation is seeking a new home for its collection
Review: Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow at the New Art Centre
Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon’s collaborative glass sculptures are interestingly out of place in the Wiltshire countryside
The Week’s Muse: 7 June
A response to the Jewish Museum shooting; Marina Abramović in trouble over nothing; connoisseurship now; Outsider Art; and Matisse at the cinema
Nothing new? The row over Marina Abramović’s new show
Marina Abramović intends to do nothing at the Serpentine Galleries this summer. But nothing has been done before…
The Week’s Muse: 31 May
This week’s news and comment from the Muse Room: Michael Schmidt, the Glasgow School of Art, auction highlights, and troublesome renovations
Salvage efforts continue at the Glasgow School of Art
70% of the contents of the Glasgow School of Art have been salvaged by firefighters after a major blaze
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