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Installation view of the collection at Museum MORE, which deliberately avoids a chronological hang

Keeping it real – neorealism in the Netherlands

Museum MORE has done a great deal to invigorate a genre once seen as hopelessly old-fashioned

29 May 2020
The Right Honourable Chris Grayling MP has been appointed a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Chris Grayling, culture vulture – and NPG trustee

The former transport secretary has been appointed as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery – so he must be a museum fanatic, right?

29 May 2020
The fireplace in the Farleys Dining Room at Farleys House, Muddles Green, Sussex.

Homes from home – on house museums in lockdown

Transporting yourself to house museums is a consolation during lockdown – but they face a precarious future

29 May 2020

Art businesses are emerging from lockdown – but how best to go about it?

When commercial galleries in the UK reopen, they will need to be mindful of social-distancing rules and wary of legal obligations for online sales

28 May 2020
Susan Rothenberg in her studio in New Mexico in 2008.

‘For her, painting was the holy grail’ – on Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020)

A tribute to the American artist, whose haunting canvases ushered in a new wave of expressionism in painting

27 May 2020
The south facade of the original building of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which opened in 1924

Texas star – at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston

The museum, which boasts one of the leading encyclopaedic collections in the US, has reopened – months ahead of unveiling a major expansion

23 May 2020
Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Philippe of Belgium visi the permanent collection of the Old Masters Museum, part of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, on May 19, 2020 in Brussels, as the country eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Daina Le Lardic/Belga/AFP via Getty Images

How will museums bring us close to art in an era of social distancing?

As museums around the world prepare to reopen, many do so with a renewed sense of purpose

22 May 2020
Peter Sellers holding a bust of himself.

The punchy paintings of Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers gave action painting a new spin in a sketch with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in 1965

16 May 2020
Portrait of Madame Gonse (detail; 1852), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban

Pride of place – the Musée Ingres Bourdelle honours Montauban’s two most famous artistic sons

The museum in the south of France has spruced up its galleries dedicated to Ingres and now has an entire floor of sculptures by Bourdelle

16 May 2020
Making Fishcakes, Late Afternoon, December (detail; 2019), Caroline Walker.

‘We are pretty well practised at isolation’ – how artists have been coping with quarantine

Some artists, such as Ilya Kabakov and Caroline Walker, are finding solace in their work – when not distracted by fears about the post-pandemic future

13 May 2020
Connell (Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) on holiday in Italy in episode eight of Normal People.

Vermeer, Duchamp and Sally Rooney

The hit novel-turned-TV show is a love story, but it’s also a portrait of a young man becoming an artist

13 May 2020
Millicent Fawcett (detail; 1898), Theodore Blake Wirgman. Royal Holloway, University of London

Vote winner – a newly discovered portrait of Millicent Fawcett is a significant find

The painting at Royal Holloway presents a more reflective side of the tireless campaigner

12 May 2020
Guston in the studio with Painter’s Table (1973).

‘Philip Guston’s life traced that of modern art itself’

A new biography by Robert Storr offers a comprehensive yet personal account of the artist’s complex career

12 May 2020
The restored Antikenhalle, or Hall of Antiquities, in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

King of the Zwinger – Dresden’s most important museum is more majestic than ever

The jewel in the crown of the city’s palatial complex of museums now shows off its masterpieces to even better effect

9 May 2020
Photograph taken at Balmoral in 1893/94 by Charles Albert Wilson. Ethel Cadogan, Lord William Cecil and Dr Alexander Profeit re-enact a scene from Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott in which Rebecca and a page kneel over Ivanhoe. Royal Collection Trust/© HM Queen Elizabeth II 2020

Making a scene – how the Victorians brought the past to life

Recreating scenes from famous paintings has been all the rage of lockdown, but it’s the Victorians who first played make-believe in earnest

7 May 2020
The Humvees of Call of Duty.

What does it mean to regard video games as works of art?

A long-running debate has been revived by a court ruling that the realism of ‘Call of Duty’ makes it a work of art

6 May 2020
Mudlarking

How my mudlarking finds have kept me company in convalescence

Beads, bottles, broken plates… these scraps of London’s history provide a welcome distraction in a time of sickness and solitude

5 May 2020
Grayson Perry, courtesy Channel 4

Grayson Perry becomes the nation’s art teacher

The artist’s encouraging approach shows a nation in lockdown that technique isn’t everything

4 May 2020
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in January 2020.

Trial by fire – the rush to rebuild Notre-Dame

Was the pledge to restore the cathedral in just five years a reasonable commitment or a rash promise?

Illustration: David Biskup

Has the digital museum finally come of age?

Thomas Campbell and Adam Koszary ask whether the online experience can ever compare to being in a physical gallery

4 May 2020
Yinka Shonibare, photographed at his studio in London in February 2020.

The wit and wisdom of Yinka Shonibare

The artist discusses his plans for a new residency in Lagos, and delves into the serious mischief of his sculptures

2 May 2020
Germano Celant at ‘Post Zang Tumb Tuum’ at the Fondazione Prada in 2018. Photo: Ugo dalla Porta; courtesy Fondazione Prada

The week in art news – Germano Celant (1940–2020)

Plus: Zarina (1937–2020), museums in Italy and Belgium set reopening dates, and more art stories from around the world

1 May 2020
Nimbus 10 , Tomás Saraceno.

Culture is in quarantine – and proving its worth as never before

In this time of crisis, the arts and innovative cultural platforms can bring us together and enrich our lives

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt in front of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, at the reopening of the gallery’s room dedicated to the artist in 2016. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

‘We are ready to open’ – the Uffizi Galleries prepare for life after lockdown

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt discusses plans to reopen the galleries as the Italian government eases lockdown regulations

30 Apr 2020