Is the system for protecting historic buildings working?
The procedures for protecting England’s historic buildings are now 70 years old. Is the system still fit for purpose?
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Your chance to win ‘Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio’ by Sophie Bowness (Tate Publishing)
The Apollo 40 Under 40 Global launch, in pictures
Celebrating the new, global edition of the Apollo 40 Under 40 at the Garden Museum on Thursday evening
Why it’s time for auction houses to start talking to each other
Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the auction sector
Acquisitions of the month: August 2017
This month’s acquisitions include a major collection of African art, a treasure from Queen Victoria’s personal collection, and a beautiful 18th-century landscape
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Your chance to win ’Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed’ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Your chance to win ‘Gainsborough: A Portrait’ by James Hamilton (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
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Your chance to win ‘Highland Retreats: The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland’s Romantic North’ by Mary Miers (Rizzoli)
Acquisitions of the month: July 2017
This month’s acquisitions include a rare portrait by Richard Wilson, the Edward Hopper archive and an exceptional group of drawings
Harold M. Williams (1928–2017)
The founding president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust has died at the age of 89
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Your chance to win ‘Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe’ by Peter Björn Kerber (Getty Publications)
The Apollo podcast: Amanda Levete
Thomas Marks talks to architect Amanda Levete about the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, designed by her practice AL_A
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Your chance to win ‘Sargent: The Watercolours’ by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray (Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Acquisitions of the month: June 2017
A huge collection of Diane Arbus photographs heads for Ontario, and the Getty finally gets its Parmigianino
Do the prices at auction muddy our interpretation of art?
In May, a painting by Basquiat sold at auction for $110.5m. But when does money overtake other judgements?
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Your chance to win ‘Ravilious and Co: The Pattern of Friendship’, by Andy Friend (Thames & Hudson)
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art world responds to the UK election; Michel Houellebecq discusses his ‘French Bashing’ exhibition; and is Kate Middleton a skater girl now?
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Your chance to win ’Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting’ (Yale University Press)
Acquisitions of the month: May 2017
A Delacroix heads for Munich, and a number of major museums have significantly expanded their photography holdings
‘The Cloaca are machines, they’re animals, they’re us’
Wim Delvoye discusses merde-making machines, mass production, pig tattoos and Europe’s messy future
Do artists’ lives get in the way of their work?
An exhibition of Eric Gill’s art in Ditchling raises questions about how far we can separate art from life. Should biography shape our understanding of an artist’s work?
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Your chance to win ‘Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World’ by Joanna Marschner with David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford (eds.)
The Apollo podcast: Charles Saumarez Smith
Thomas Marks talks to the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy about his new book on East London
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Do museums need to be more socially engaged?
Alistair Hudson and Elisabeth Callihan ask whether today’s museums could be more useful