• In praise of the Wallace Collection • An interview with Etel Adnan • Chippendale at 300 • A new era for Irish arts funding
Plus: Masterpiece and Art Basel previews, Cedric Morris’s paintings, and the ethics of live animals in art
All change at the National Gallery | An interview with Caroline Walker | On tour with the Von Trapps
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue | An interview with Oliver Beer | How the Acropolis became modern
How to give back looted objects | An interview with Alex Da Corte | Versailles enters the 21st century
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co.
Once a central figure in Chicago’s mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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
How to give back looted objects
UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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