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Susan Moore and Niru Ratman wonder if anyone is still enjoying themselves

It was always a mistake to take the painter’s portraits at face value, writes Nancy Princenthal – and we shouldn’t have any illusions about the man either

The state has just shelled out €4million for the libertine’s most notorious work – how times have changed

The Clash bassist’s pulverised instrument can now be worshipped at the Museum of London

With chaos in Lebanon and Beirut in crisis, the resilience of the city’s artists and heritage workers is something of a miracle

Museums should lead conversations about archives and artefacts gathered in former colonies – and not leave the objects gathering dust

As calls grow for the return of objects acquired during the colonial era, the assessment of claims requires an independent process

The discovery of an engraved bone in Germany offers yet more evidence that our distant cousins were creatively minded

The privatisation of public space in UK cities means that artists are being made to feel increasingly unwelcome

The disappointing bronze figure raises the difficult question of what a well-dressed statue should wear these days

The sale at auction raises complex questions about who owns the internet today

Union drives have accelerated during the pandemic, but museum workers have been frustrated with management for years, write Dana Kopel and Maxwell L. Anderson

The artist has partnered up with WeTransfer to create a digital version of the Abramovic Method, a series of exercises that will test your patience to its limit

The museum has agreed to give back two plaques in its collection that were taken illegally from Nigeria after 1960. Why now?

With mass tourism poised to return, have local politicians and cultural leaders finally worked out how to manage the crowds? 

Mars has never seemed closer, with rovers spamming us with photos from its surface

With the government waging its ‘culture war’, the independence of national museums is at stake, write Chris Smith and Margot Finn

Long thought lost by scholars, a spectacular silver gilt monstrance by Luigi Valadier has now been tracked down to a Central American basilica