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New directors announced for 20 of Italy’s top museums
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Honolulu Art Museum sues collector; Germany’s proposed heritage law draws more fire; UK seeks to save its ‘Sekhemka’ statue
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The Masterpiece podcast: episode three
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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Idris Khan: Repeat After Me
The British-Pakistani artist‘s first solo exhibition in the US includes characteristically layered works that speak to the themes of memory and emotion
Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
The Renaissance practice of concealing portraits behind sliding covers or in puzzle-laden boxes is being unpacked in an unusual exhibition at the Met
Camille Claudel
The Getty Center is celebrating the French sculptor who was deemed a ‘woman genius’ by the contemporary art critic Octave Mirbeau
The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries
The Palace Museum in Beijing is exploring Franco-Chinese relations in the 17th and 18th centuries through over 150 artworks and objects
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Richard Serra, man of steel (1938–2024)
The sculptor saw possibilities in steel that no one else had before, creating works that altered viewers’ perception of space
Why are fathers so absent from art history?
Artists over the centuries have often depicted women as mothers, but where are all the deadbeat dads?
Don’t fear the gatekeeper
Artists may distrust intermediaries but it would be more difficult for anyone to get noticed in the art world without them