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What’s the point of rebuilding Germany’s palaces?
The construction of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum on the site of the former Stadtschloss raises challenging questions
What to see in Maastricht and beyond
The best events and exhibitions staged to coincide with the fair
Smart art that will make you reconsider your smartphone
Art inspired by science can be hit and miss. But here’s an artist who really gets its beauty and complexity
The Rotterdam museum that collects collectors
The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is to store private collections – which is just the sort of collaboration the museum has always thrived on
The modern mysteries of Michaël Borremans
The Belgian painter reveres the Old Masters but is ‘ashamed’ by the state of figurative painting today
Acquisitions of the Month: February 2016
LACMA just acquired an entire house – and no ordinary house at that
The ‘grim’ social housing that has proved more robust than what followed it
George Peabody’s vision lives on, and we would do well to heed it today
What makes a museum secure?
What can museums do to deter would-be Thomas Crowns – and what are the risks they run rather more regularly?
A collection of Victorian drawings land in the UK
Leighton House proves a perfect backdrop for a remarkable collection of drawings
Painting and ceramics collide in Betty Woodman’s work
The octogenarian’s first solo show in a UK institution is a riot of colour and character
Christo prepares to walk on water
Christo and his wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude wanted to walk on water nearly 40 years ago. The Floating Piers project this summer will achieve their dream.
The museum of Cornish pasties and a peek inside Vincent’s bedroom
The Cornish pasty museum and now booking: Van Gogh’s bedroom on Airbnb
How the nuclear age made its mark on sculpture
The fear of nuclear disaster haunted the forms and materials of post-war sculpture
Egyptology from the point of view of Egyptians
Review of a groundbreaking study of overlooked 20th-century scholars
The YBA demolition jobs causing a sensation near you
Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are building and burrowing in London – but at what cost, asks Rakewell
Susan Hiller’s search for the right medium
‘What’s happened to the witch, the German puppet witch?’ Susan Hiller enquires of the waitress…
Francis Towne’s long road to recognition
Towne’s watercolours aren’t as ground-breaking as they were once made out to be, but they are definitely good enough to merit a revival
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Not-so-radical street art and the Cerne Abbas giant censored at the Palace of Westminster
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Has the BBC made art boring?
If anything, the corporation should be taken to task for its desperate bid for accessibility