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Restrain your selfie: a defence of the self-portrait
Instead of conflating ‘selfies’ and self-portraits, shouldn’t museums stand up for historic art as worthy in its own right?
Don’t look back? 100 Hours of close looking at UCL
How do you look at an unfamiliar object? A recent project at UCL gave researchers plenty of time to consider
The Week’s Muse: 21 June
The Venice Architecture Biennale, the Battle of Orgreave, digital catalogues, portrait busts and a critique of Richard Mosse… comment from the Muse Room
Dazzle ships and drawings in Liverpool
Do Nasreen Mohamedi’s drawings at Tate Liverpool better reflect modernist camouflage experiments that Carlos Cruz-Diez’s dazzle ship?
Oversaturated: the problem with Richard Mosse’s photography
Mosse’s use of colour in his series ‘The Enclave’ is compelling, but does it misrepresent his subject?
The Battle of Orgreave and ‘The Battle of Orgreave’
It’s been 30 years since the Battle of Orgreave, and 13 since Jeremy Deller’s re-enactment of it. Is it time to re-examine the re-examination?
The Art of Digital: Your Paintings, Art Detective and the PCF
They’ve catalogued and digitised all the UK’s oil paintings in public ownership, but they won’t stop there
Extraordinary structures: The Wind Tunnel Project in Farnborough
The reopening of Farnborough’s flight testing centre is one of the most unusual and remarkable art projects in recent years
The Week’s Muse: 14 June
News, comment and opinion from this week’s Muse Room: arts and crafts, ivory, twitter, public art, hidden stores and a $20 million stamp
Open the stores: conservation, collections and the museum of the future
Most museums are like icebergs, the vast bulk of their collections are hidden. Does it have to be that way?
The soft approach to public art
What makes a good work of public art? The success of Bill Viola’s ‘Martyrs’ suggests that a sense of sincerity and tradition can win people round to contemporary formats
Postage paid: Sotheby’s stamp estimated at $10–20million
The British Guiana One-Cent Magenta is the only stamp of its kind in the world, and by far the most expensive
Are you following? The Old Masters take to Twitter
How can museums make the most of a tool like Twitter? @SignorKentino has some tips
Forum: Is the US ivory ban counter-productive?
In Apollo’s June issue, Martin Levy discusses the impact of the proposed US ivory ban on the cultural sector
The Week’s Muse: 7 June
A response to the Jewish Museum shooting; Marina Abramović in trouble over nothing; connoisseurship now; Outsider Art; and Matisse at the cinema
Stars in whose eyes? The lack of women artists in Bailey’s Stardust
Does David Bailey know any women artists? His selection of artists’ portraits in his latest exhibition suggests not
Paul Mellon’s final gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Paintings by Van Gogh, Degas and Seurat are among the 62 modern works bequeathed by Paul Mellon, to enter the NGA collection recently
‘Outsider Art’ flourishes outside the UK
Outsider Art is gaining prominence in the UK, but it’s been a slow awakening: we’re still catching up with Europe and the USA
A response to the Musée Juif de Belgique shooting
The news of the shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last month was sickening, but Jewish institutions must stay open
Changing Tastes: should museums try to teach ‘good’ taste?
Should museums try to preserve traditional notions of ‘good’ taste, or encourage new ways of thinking about art and culture?
Editor’s Letter: Connoisseurship now
Has the time come for a revival of connoisseurship?
Nothing new? The row over Marina Abramović’s new show
Marina Abramović intends to do nothing at the Serpentine Galleries this summer. But nothing has been done before…
The Week’s Muse: 31 May
This week’s news and comment from the Muse Room: Michael Schmidt, the Glasgow School of Art, auction highlights, and troublesome renovations
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