Chris Ofili’s notorious ‘The Holy Virgin Mary’ goes to MoMA and the Baltimore Museum of Art updates its contemporary art collection
Your chance to win ‘Rodin and the art of ancient Greece’ by Celeste Farge, Bénédicte Garnier and Ian Jenkins (Thames & Hudson)
League tables of museum visitor numbers may generate a lot of media coverage – but do they distract institutions from other priorities?
Huma Bhabha discusses sci-fi, politics and her Roof Garden Commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Your chance to win ‘Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence’
A major work of land art by Nancy Holt and Liotard’s largest extant work on pastel are among this month’s top acquisitions
Your chance to win ‘The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery’ by Julia Siemon (ed.)
With the culture sector increasingly relying on philanthropic giving, the role of the donor may merit greater scrutiny
Your chance to win ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ (Paul Holberton)
Janna Graham and Niru Ratnam weigh in on whether curating is something that can, or should, be taught
Arts and Crafts silver, Toulouse-Lautrec and L.S. Lowry – the works not to miss at BADA in London this year
Your chance to win ‘Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960’ by Edward J. Sullivan
Judikje Kiers, director of the Amsterdam Museum, on the museum’s expansion plans and its TEFAF loan exhibition
A Duchamp readymade owned by Robert Rauschenberg and an Etruscan bronze are among this month’s top acquisitions
Thomas Marks talks to Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about how we can deepen our understanding of Old Master paintings
Your chance to win ‘Blue: the History of a Color’ by Michel Pastoureau (Princeton University Press)
George Henry Longly discusses his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, which features eight Japanese armours
Your chance to win ‘Zurbarán – Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle’ (Frick Collection)
The finest additions to public collections this month include a crop of modern European artworks, from Munch to Mondrian
A recent government report says it should – but with limited public funding available, can Britain’s existing museums grow?
Your chance to win ‘Gustav Klimt at Home’ by Patrick Bade (Frances Lincoln)
Last month’s acquisitions include a portrait of a hirsute lady, and a major purchase for the Frick
Your chance to win ‘Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels’ by Christopher Lloyd (Thames & Hudson)
Eugene Thaw, the collector of drawings and celebrated art dealer, has died at the age of 90
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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Are museums too preoccupied by visitor numbers?
League tables of museum visitor numbers may generate a lot of media coverage – but do they distract institutions from other priorities?