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Among the poppies: volunteering at the Tower of London’s war memorial

Paul Cummins’ red field of poppies has been planted by volunteers, and is still growing

27 Aug 2014

Wolsey’s Angels: the V&A seeks to acquire four important Renaissance sculptures

Cardinal Wolsey commissioned them, Henry VIII seized them, and now the V&A wants to preserve them

25 Aug 2014

What are we to make of posthumous art?

An exhibition of Garry Winogrand’s photography at the Metropolitan Museum includes many posthumous prints. Do they have a place there?

25 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 23 August

Bob and Roberta Smith stands up for art in schools; Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square; and the utopian appeal of geometric art

23 Aug 2014

‘Art Party’: Bob and Roberta Smith’s defense of art in schools

We spoke to the artist at the head of a campaign to keep creativity on the school curriculum

21 Aug 2014

‘This is not America’. Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square

Jarr’s restaged message to ‘America’ feels as as relevant as ever

20 Aug 2014

Radical Order: Geometry and the Utopian Impulse

What’s behind the enduring appeal of geometry in modern art?

19 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 16 August

Are art installations the new video games? Are adverts the new art installations? News and comment from the Muse Room…

16 Aug 2014

Are art installations the new video games?

Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?

14 Aug 2014

Art and Advertising: friends or foes?

Cosy, co-dependent, sometimes antagonistic: the relationship between art and advertising is a complicated affair

12 Aug 2014

Folk Art and ‘Civilisation’: the question of art in context

Tate Britain’s ‘Kenneth Clark’ and ‘Folk Art’ shows looked at, and outside, the art-historical canon

12 Aug 2014

Milking It: Delaware Art Museum will sell two more works of art

Winslow Homer’s ‘Milking Time’ and Alexander Calder’s ‘The Black Crescent’ are next up

11 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 9 August

A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room

9 Aug 2014

The Tate Affair: then and now

The Tate has been in the firing line in recent years; is recent criticism comparable to the infamous ‘Tate Affair’ of 1952–54?

5 Aug 2014

Lights Out: Remembering the First World War

The UK’s monuments will go dark this evening, marking 100 years since the start of the First World War

4 Aug 2014
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Making an entrance: the Fitzwilliam Museum’s opulent portico has been restored

The magnificent entrance has been meticulously spruced up

2 Aug 2014

The Week’s Muse: 2 August

40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays

2 Aug 2014

Preservation vs Presentation: is digital display a solution for museums?

Why museums should put their objects online

1 Aug 2014

Looking Good: National Gallery exhibitions promote close looking

‘Making Colour’ and ‘Building the Picture’ point out details in paintings that are easily overlooked

28 Jul 2014

The Week’s Muse: 26 July

Are encyclopaedic museums concentrating too much on contemporary art? News and comment from the Muse Room

26 Jul 2014

Irish Cabinet reshuffle puts two newcomers in charge of the arts

Can Heather Humphreys, the new Minister for Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, effectively steer her rather neglected department?

21 Jul 2014

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?

19 Jul 2014

Shifting Boundaries: Applied Arts and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation

As a new generation of artists takes the lead, the old distinctions between applied and fine arts can’t hold

18 Jul 2014

Art Everywhere: which works will fare best on the billboards?

‘Art Everywhere’ have announced the images that will displayed across the UK this summer

17 Jul 2014