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Sir John Soane’s private apartments are a public treasure
The restoration at the Soane Museum is a masterpiece of forensic work
Rodin moves back to Paris
The sculptor would have approved of the Musée Rodin’s sensitive refurbishment
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Maggie Gray looks forward to British modernists at Tate Britain and Dulwich Picture Gallery, antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum and the Fitzwilliam, and the Queen’s House at 400
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Imelda Barnard selects some post-war and contemporary art highlights, from Etel Adnan at the Serpentine, to Marcel Broodthaers at MoMA, and Anri Sala at the New Museum
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015)
Remembering the great pioneer of American abstraction, who has died at the age of 92
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Fatema Ahmed looks forward to John Akomfrah’s films at Lisson Gallery, a second edition of Photo London, and a mysterious show curated by Michel Houellebecq
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Xavier Salomon’s highlights include Old Masters in Italy, the Le Nain brothers in the US, and a celebration of Hieronymus Bosch in Madrid
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Thomas Marks on Sicily at the British Museum and Ashmolean, Vittorio Cini’s paintings from the Veneto, and the Parma School in Rome
Andrea del Sarto’s perfect chalk drawings
The Italian artist’s masterful works fully explore the possibilities of chalk
It is more important than ever to protect our museums
‘It is more important than ever to defend museums and what they make possible’
Is the German Cultural Property Protection Act to be welcomed?
Does draft cultural property legislation in Germany threaten to damage German cultural life, or is it necessary for the safeguarding of the country’s heritage?
Was there no Celtic Revival to vie with the Gothic?
‘The Celtic Revival in architecture depended upon ancient shrines, castles, and vernacular buildings’
‘All kinds of abstract art were possible.’ Alan Bowness on post-war British painting
Sir Alan Bowness’s art collection goes on display at a new public gallery at Downing College Cambridge
‘This exhibition conflates the gallery and the brothel’
Sensationalist displays are no way to explore art and prostitution, writes Lynda Nead – and the Musée d’Orsay has got carried away with selling sex
Drinking scenes: the relationship between artists and alcohol
The Romantic association between creativity and alcohol has no foundation, but alcohol and its effects have proved a rich subject for artists
Andrew Ciechanowiecki: 1924–2015
The art world has lost one of the most respected scholar-art dealers of the 20th century
The mysteries of M.C. Escher at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
The familiarity of Maurits Cornelis Escher’s work doesn’t make it any easier to interpret, says Will Wiles
Acquisitions of the Month: November 2015
The most interesting and important recent additions to museum collections
London Diary: who gets to be a national treasure?
Is it acceptable to lay into an octogenarian painter who has long been a ‘national treasure’?
The Rake’s Progress: A Week in Gossip
Arty Xmas shopping; a chocolate Putin; and a charming speech during Art Basel in Miami Beach
‘Our Europe is an inclusive Europe’: the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new European Galleries
Lesley Miller, the lead curator of the museum’s new ‘Europe 1600–1815 Galleries’ explains the hard decisions involved in making displays
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12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Neal Benezra on the reopening of the SFMOMA and why 2016 will be an exciting year for the entire San Francisco Bay Area