All art is for children – and great art can make children of us all
Modern masters from Joseph Cornell to Paul Klee have produced works expressly for children, writes Ben Street – but perhaps all great art is a type of child’s play?
The unruly life of museum postcards
We’re all building miniature museums at home, and postcards of paintings have taken on a life of their own
Make no mistake, art history is a hard subject. What’s soft is the decision to scrap it
Exam board AQA is to scrap art history A-level. It’s a crazy decision to take just as public perception of the subject is changing
Look closer: what art historians can learn from museum education
Have we forgotten how to look properly at art?
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The history of artists’ signatures is a secret history of art
For painters from Jan van Eyck to Philip Guston, the act of signing a finished work is much more than a simple assertion of authorship