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London Diary: 19 April

Ravilious is bonkers and brilliant in Dulwich; Space sparkles at Daniel Blau; and is ‘Woman in Gold’ so bad it’s good?

19 Apr 2015

Stamping down on the students: has the UK’s largest art school gone too far?

Students are asking legitimate questions about the future of art schools: UAL should listen

17 Apr 2015

The destruction of Nimrud is a crime against humanity

Islamic State has posted a video online that appears to show the destruction of the Assyrian city

14 Apr 2015

Baltic Diary: April

What is the relationship between art and the city?

13 Apr 2015

The Week’s Muse: 11 April

Tiffany Jenkins on Neil MacGregor’s exceptional leadership; Kader Attia on the archival impulse; Jack Orlik on the distinction between art and architecture

11 Apr 2015

How Neil MacGregor saved the British Museum

The retiring director is one of the great museum leaders in history

8 Apr 2015

The Week’s Muse: 4 April

News and comment from our April issue: Thomas Marks and John Curtis on the cultural desecration of Iraq; Don Quixote in NYC; plus, should the Kunstmuseum Bern have accepted the Gurlitt bequest?

4 Apr 2015

Forum: Should the Kunstmuseum Bern have accepted the Gurlitt bequest?

Matthias Frehner and David Lewis discuss the problematic bequest

30 Mar 2015

Editor’s Letter: The cultural desecration of Iraq

As Iraq and its heritage suffer, we must seek out and celebrate the great Assyrian artefacts in our own museum collections

29 Mar 2015

This Week’s Muse: 28 March

Museum of London to move to Smithfield; fresh perspectives on Henry Moore and Basquiat; spotlight on education in museums; Asian art at the Met

28 Mar 2015
Smithfield Market, London.

The Museum of London is Good News for Smithfield Market

Move should improve the museum and protect Smithfield fabric

27 Mar 2015

The Week’s Muse: 21 March

Bardo museum shooting; Regional museums in crisis; Changing times for Helsinki’s museums; Richard Long on mud and mark-making; and art fair highlights

21 Mar 2015

Work in Focus: Surreal subjects at ‘Classicicity’

Classical and contemporary collide at Breese Little gallery

Regional museums are in crisis. Can they survive?

Key speakers debated the issue at a Courtauld event this week

19 Mar 2015

How should private collectors and public museums work together?

This year’s TEFAF Art Symposium looked at an old but not unproblematic relationship

19 Mar 2015

TEFAF Treasures

An early Mondrian hidden among Old Masters; Auerbach’s striking self-portrait; and a curious Collector’s Cabinet

18 Mar 2015

TEFAF Treasures

Personal favourites from Maastricht, including an ancient Egyptian fragment and an unfinished old master painting

17 Mar 2015

The Week’s Muse: 14 March

Fire at the Battersea Arts Centre; Why ‘avant-garde’ is a slippery term; and what’s wrong with the BBC’s Big Painting Challenge

14 Mar 2015

The BBC’s Big Painting Challenge is not the publicity British art needs

Is it better to throw in your lot with dozens of other Sunday painters than go to art school?

12 Mar 2015

When was the avant-garde?

The term ‘avant-garde’ has shifted meaning from its military roots to the byword for artistic innovation. How should we apply it to art history?

10 Mar 2015

The changing state of conservation

There are fashions in conservation just as in any other aesthetic practice

9 Mar 2015

The Week’s Muse: 7 March

The iconoclasm of the Islamic State; highlights from TEFAF; the many sides of Paul Durand-Ruel; Britain’s top art school graduates; and the latest museum acquisitions

7 Mar 2015

Paul Durand-Ruel: Gambler, Discoverer or Inventor?

By mid September, the same show will have toured three cities, in three countries, and will have picked up three different titles along the way

3 Mar 2015

Editor’s Letter: The single-artist museum

The single-artist museum

2 Mar 2015