Malcolm Baker is Distinguished Professor of the History of Art, University of California, Riverside

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Statue of Isaac Newton (1755), Louis François Roubiliac, Trinity College, Cambridge

What place for public statues in the history of art?

As we debate public statues, it’s worth revisiting the revolution in portrait sculpture that made many of them seem so animated and direct

8 Jul 2020
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First Look: Fame and Friendship at Waddesdon Manor

Eight versions of Roubiliac’s portrait bust of Alexander Pope have been brought together at Waddesdon Manor

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The National Gallery, closed and an empty Trafalgar Square on 24 March 2020. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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?

Sale of the centuries: works deaccessioned by the Brooklyn Museum (left) and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery since the relaxation of AAMD guidelines.

American museums should not be selling their art to keep the lights on

Deaccessioning rules for US museums have been relaxed to raise money for collection care – and even the Met may take advantage. It’s a slippery slope, says Thomas P. Campbell

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