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The future of the historic craft will only be secure if contemporary artists and audiences understand it better

The Metropolitan Museum is finally showing Native art in its American galleries. This is important, but only as a reflection on museums themselves

One of the holiest sites in Christianity has reopened in time for Easter

Now is the moment for those who lament the passing of connoisseurship to work together to encourage its revival

This year Documenta will be split between Kassel and Athens. Is this ‘crisis tourism’ or will it spotlight the city’s overlooked contemporary art scene?

Rather than seeing replicas as knock-offs, we should think of them like maps or models

A huge Egyptian statue has been unearthed in a Cairo suburb. Will the global attention it has received lead to further discoveries at the neglected site?

Cultural sites have been targeted by criminals and terrorists in recent years. How are they responding to the changing contemporary threat?

Is the street artist’s hotel in Palestine a tourist-led gimmick or a strong political statement?

As events at the Met show, it’s all too easy to forget that trustees are as responsible as directors for the museums they run

The auction house’s decision to close its South Kensington saleroom and scale back operations in Amsterdam smacks of corporate short-termism

Historic England, English Heritage and the National Trust have so far failed to address the flaws in Highways England’s plan to tunnel under the ancient site

What will the Star Wars-creator’s new museum in LA add to what the city’s collecting institutions already offer?

The success of Europol’s Operation Pandora, which recovered thousands of stolen artefacts, demonstrates the importance of international cooperation

Manchester has received the lion’s share of recent arts funding in northern England, to the irritation of other leading cities. Can its success benefit everyone?

Fears are growing that Donald Trump’s administration means to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts. What would it mean for US culture if they did?