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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
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Xavier Salomon’s highlights include Old Masters in Italy, the Le Nain brothers in the US, and a celebration of Hieronymus Bosch in Madrid
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Thomas Marks on Sicily at the British Museum and Ashmolean, Vittorio Cini’s paintings from the Veneto, and the Parma School in Rome
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Charles Saumarez Smith looks forward to the new Tate Modern and Design Museum buildings, the V&A’s rethink of Botticelli and Pallant House’s British art displays
It is more important than ever to protect our museums
‘It is more important than ever to defend museums and what they make possible’
Is the German Cultural Property Protection Act to be welcomed?
Does draft cultural property legislation in Germany threaten to damage German cultural life, or is it necessary for the safeguarding of the country’s heritage?
Where will London’s artists work?
As London’s former industrial areas are being redeveloped, artists are running out of affordable studio space. Can a city be a thriving cultural centre if its artists have nowhere to work?
The search is on for England’s missing public sculptures
Public sculpture was one marker of an ambitious, aspirant and generous society, the kind of world that we urgently need to be reminded of
Why are there no Young French Artists?
We may wait years for another generation of French talents to compare with Annette Messager and her contemporaries
The BBC should know better about university museums
A misleading story reflects a deeper problem in how museum news is reported in the general press
New York exhibitions to see before Christmas
Take a break from Christmas shopping to take in some art
Art critics have ignored the condition of artworks for too long
Judging the quality of a work should involve some appreciation of its current condition
Bulgaria must not try to forget its past
Sofia has many important monuments – and they should not be removed or destroyed
Are artists justified in boycotting Israel?
Calls for cultural and academic boycotts of Israel continue to hit the headlines. Should we regard such politically charged stances as divisive or necessary for change?
Autumn Statement brings relief but also unanswered questions for the arts
Arts sector funding fared surprisingly well in the latest spending review, but questions remain, not least over the fate of municipal museums
It is hard to overstate the gravity of the Castelvecchio thefts
The loss of 17 masterpieces is a disaster for the Italian museum sector
What next for the Serpentine?
The retirement of co-director Julia Peyton-Jones comes at a time when the Serpentine and other London institutions are at a turning point
Is cultural destruction a matter for the International Criminal Court?
Al Faqi’s trial for alleged destruction in Timbuktu is a humanitarian issue: the art is incidental
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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