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This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites

An exhibition in Denmark presents lesser-known modernists alongside the usual 20th-century titans

The largest survey of the Arte Povera artist in the UK encourages us to think differently about the boundary between art and nature

Though most celebrated for his woodcut prints, Albrecht Dürer was also a master engraver, as this free exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum makes clear

A major survey of Asawa’s work in San Francisco covers six-decades and reminds us that there was more to her work than wire sculptures

The attacks on ‘degenerate’ art were brutal and shocking, but the bravery of the artists whose work was singled out should also be remembered

Archives are much more than stuffy storerooms filled with dried-out documents, and might be our best way of connecting to the past

UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections