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Art Masters of Instagram: 9 Accounts Worth Following

Artists, curators, collectors and dealers are flocking to it. Who should you be watching?

3 Nov 2015

Editor’s Letter: Spirituality in Modern Art

The Palazzo Strozzi’s ‘Divine Beauty’ exhibition presents a complex and engaging vision of modern sacred art

23 Oct 2015

Museums should embrace event art’s mass appeal

James Turrell’s light show at Houghton Hall is the perfect example of how event art can be truly illuminating

19 Oct 2015

A rare Constable comes to market

A ‘six-footer’ version of Constable’s The Lock has come to market for the first time in 160 years. But who will want to take this monumental painting home?

19 Oct 2015

We can’t ‘save’ Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and it would be wrong to try

Art constructed in nature must be subordinate to it

8 Oct 2015

Kapoor’s moral right to keep hateful graffiti in place: a legal perspective

A look at the legal issues underpinning the story of Anish Kapoor’s vandalised ‘Dirty Corner’

7 Oct 2015

Don’t want your public sculpture to get copied? Then make better public sculpture

Rachel Whiteread’s ‘House’ would never work as a Chinese knock-off

6 Oct 2015

A summer of blunders at the French Culture Ministry

The sudden sacking of Nicolas Bourriaud suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the art world

Could the antiquities trade do more to combat looting?

As the destruction of archaeological sites in Syria and Iraq continues, what can dealers of legal antiquities do to end the trade in illegally obtained artefacts, and the looting it encourages?

28 Sep 2015

Ambitious plans for Gainsborough’s birthplace

Can a small museum in a Suffolk market town become a major centre for the study of the artist’s work?

24 Sep 2015

Communications and Collaboration: debating the future of museums in Istanbul

‘The days of museums hoarding information are over.’

16 Sep 2015

Ai Weiwei: A Chinese Artist Abroad

The Chinese dissident artist has made it to the UK. Is it time now to let his art do the talking?

16 Sep 2015

The Rise of Sound Art

Bang on trend? Music and audio are filling gallery spaces across the globe

15 Sep 2015

Can 3D recording help preserve threatened sites in Syria and Iraq?

The complicated truth behind optimistic media reports

11 Sep 2015

State of the art? Federal arts funding cuts in Australia

Arts minister George Brandis criticised for moving $105m of the country’s arts funding into government control

10 Sep 2015
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn: Hopeless case or saviour of the arts?

The MP for North Islington is that rare thing at Westminster, a politician who is actually interested in the arts

3 Sep 2015

Diary: on Francis Haskell

The enduring intellectual influence of Francis Haskell, the ‘historian’s art historian’ who reshaped the whole discipline.

31 Aug 2015

Letter from Moscow

Does Moscow now have its Tate Modern, in the new Garage Museum of Contemporary Art?

31 Aug 2015

Antique ivory: an opportunity for progress on US imports?

Banning the import of antiques will not help the otherwise commendable effort to save the elephants

25 Aug 2015

A tribute to Khaled al-Asaad, the archaeologist killed by Isis in Palmyra

The octogenarian dared to stand up to militants at the ancient site

20 Aug 2015
Cold weather forces precautionary measures at Pinacoteca di Brera

Italy’s ‘super directors’ – the winners and losers

20 new museum directors have been appointed as part of Dario Franceschini’s overhaul of Italy’s cultural sector

19 Aug 2015

Pompeii in progress? Conservation efforts continue at the ancient site

We take a look at some of the latest triumphs and setbacks

18 Aug 2015

Events like Iliad Live are all about the audience: they do little for the art itself

Museums need to stop trying so hard to prove they’re popular

17 Aug 2015