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Are there too many art fairs?
With several art fairs staged every week, are such events damaging to the more traditional art trade, or do they allow greater public engagement with art?
‘If we stay away from Tunisia, we are cowards’
The Bardo Museum in Carthage still bears the scars of last year’s terrorist attack. The best way to support it is to visit
Rewriting the past: must Rhodes fall?
A statue of Cecil Rhodes will stand at Oriel College, Oxford, in place despite calls for its removal, but debates about ‘erasing history’ rumble on
Baltic Diary: Freezing weather and frozen art funding
The Finnish arts organisation Checkpoint Helsinki has had its funding cut. Can it survive?
Will listing post-war public art really help to save it?
Historic England’s last-ditch efforts to focus public attention on public art
Boris Johnson and the GLA are the true vandals of London
The mayor’s expansionist ambitions are ruining the city’s historic character
Farewell, Sir Peter Bazalgette. Your successor will need a thick skin
What the Arts Council England owes its outgoing Chairman
Cuts run deep: Is Australia’s ‘coup culture’ killing its cultural heart?
In the space of five years, Australia has seen five prime ministers, with wildly different attitudes to art and culture
Libya’s threatened ancient history, and why you need to know about it
Here’s what we stand to lose if Libya’s heritage cannot be protected.
Tate Modern keeps it in the family with new director
The gallery has bucked the trend by appointing an internal candidate to its top job
‘It is impossible to overstate Bowie’s influence on our cultural landscape’
From performance art to painting, David Bowie’s legacy stretches far and wide
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehn, good night to Salzburg’s kitsch cultural image
The city, unlikely as it seems, is becoming a crucial place to explore contemporary art
Protesting against a historical statue is not just childish – it’s bigoted, too
‘Attitudes change, fortunately, but…things we now find offensive cannot be airbrushed away.’
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
Who owns the wreckage of the San José, and what should be done with it?
High drama under the high seas and issues of ownership and patrimony off the Colombian coast
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Louise Nicholson predicts that 2016 will be the year of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
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
Max Hollein on the link between the ICA’s small but important archival displays, and Baselitz’s early paintings at the Städel Museum
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Digby Warde-Aldam anticipates a sensory overload in 2016 as Bosch and Bridget Riley take the stage
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Maria Balshaw picks robots at the Manchester Art Gallery, Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern, hard-hitting photographs at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery and underwear at the V&A
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
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Wim Pijbes on why the focus of the art world will shift in 2016, from Europe and the US to Africa, the Middle East and Asia
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
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Titles of artworks can obstruct how we interpret artistic meaning
But changing an artwork’s title is hardly the same as pulling down a statue