Acquisitions of the month: March 2018
A major work of land art by Nancy Holt and Liotard’s largest extant work on pastel are among this month’s top acquisitions
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery’ by Julia Siemon (ed.)
Are undergraduate degrees in curating useful?
Janna Graham and Niru Ratnam weigh in on whether curating is something that can, or should, be taught
The best of BADA 2018
Arts and Crafts silver, Toulouse-Lautrec and L.S. Lowry – the works not to miss at BADA in London this year
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960’ by Edward J. Sullivan
‘We want to get people involved in their city’
Judikje Kiers, director of the Amsterdam Museum, on the museum’s expansion plans and its TEFAF loan exhibition
Acquisitions of the month: February 2018
A Duchamp readymade owned by Robert Rauschenberg and an Etruscan bronze are among this month’s top acquisitions
The Apollo podcast: learning from the Old Masters
Thomas Marks talks to Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about how we can deepen our understanding of Old Master paintings
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Blue: the History of a Color’ by Michel Pastoureau (Princeton University Press)
‘This exhibition is about forces enacted on the body’
George Henry Longly discusses his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, which features eight Japanese armours
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Zurbarán – Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle’ (Frick Collection)
Acquisitions of the month: January 2018
The finest additions to public collections this month include a crop of modern European artworks, from Munch to Mondrian
Should Britain stop building museums?
A recent government report says it should – but with limited public funding available, can Britain’s existing museums grow?
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Gustav Klimt at Home’ by Patrick Bade (Frances Lincoln)
Acquisitions of the month: December 2017
Last month’s acquisitions include a portrait of a hirsute lady, and a major purchase for the Frick
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels’ by Christopher Lloyd (Thames & Hudson)
Eugene Thaw (1927–2018)
Eugene Thaw, the collector of drawings and celebrated art dealer, has died at the age of 90
The major art anniversaries to look out for in 2018
Expect celebrations of Cubism, universal suffrage, architects and art collectors in the coming year
Do we still need UNESCO?
The US is withdrawing from UNESCO (again) at the end of 2018. Has this international body outlived its usefulness?
‘The most substantial Kunsthalle in London’
Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery, explains what the revamped brutalist building has to offer artists and audiences
The Apollo podcast: Ralph Taylor
Thomas Marks talks to the head of post-war and contemporary art at Bonhams about how the market is shaping up for 2018
Book competition
Your chance to win ‘Leonard Rosoman’ by Tanya Harrod (Royal Academy of Arts)
Have museums been too generous with naming rights?
With the culture sector increasingly relying on philanthropic giving, the role of the donor may merit greater scrutiny