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Of course we want museums to be accessible, friendly and interesting, but we also have an imperative to protect and preserve

Maria Miller has resigned as UK culture secretary. Perhaps it’s now time to rethink the DCMS entirely.

Starr Figura on the overlooked brilliance of Gauguin’s prints and transfer drawings

Francesco Vezzoli’s plans to rebuild a 19th-century Calabrese church at New York’s MoMA PS1 have been abandoned

Could the art world do more to address the issue of looted and stolen art?

Items from the Tate, V&A and Ashmolean museum are being investigated by the Spoliation Advisory Panel: what is the panel, and what do they do?

In Australia, all of the major national art institutions are run by men, but it’s encouraging that women are being recognised

Sjarel Ex explains how the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen acquired a Hammershøi at TEFAF

Boris Johnson and Ni Zhaoxing plan to rebuild the Crystal Palace on Sydenham Hill. It’s a ludicrous project

My annual search has turned into something of an obsession

Launched just months before the outbreak of war, Vorticism was ill-timed and short-lived. But it’s a vital chapter in the history of British art

Maurice Davies on museum funding, Daisy Dunn on Pompeii’s stolen fresco, and other stories from the Muse Room this week

The museum omitted Chinese artefacts from a history of homosexuality

The UK government’s Cultural Gifts Scheme is a nice idea, but most museums already have more work than they know what to do with

Entrepreneur Karlheinz Essl hopes to sell his private collection to Austria, to save 4000 jobs at his company

What does it mean to be selected for TEFAF’s yearly Showcase of promising new galleries?

The theft of part of a minor fresco in Pompeii is not in itself a huge loss, but it highlights wider security and conservation issues

Lost, stolen, restored, repackaged and photographed: a round-up of art news and debates from this week