Ashmolean Museum
Half-man-half-bull, half-truth: mysteries of the Labyrinth to be unveiled at last
Oxford museum aims to ‘set the record straight’ about the discovery of Knossos Palace in Crete
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent
04, Feb, 2023 @3:00 PM
Young & Wild? Art in 1980s Germany; Pre-Raphaelite: Drawings and Watercolours – review
There’s prolific energy, and the odd woeful daub, in a small show of art from 1980s Berlin – all eclipsed by a single pencil sketch nearby...
Rachel Cooke
07, Aug, 2022 @12:00 PM
Thrifty summer: free films, folk and standup – 25 cost-free ways to enjoy arts in the UK
You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnival
Jenessa Williams, Graeme Virtue, Jonathan Jones, Kate Wyver and Rachel Aroesti
07, Jun, 2022 @11:00 AM
Penny savings: taking the measure of money at the Ashmolean museum
The Oxford museum’s Heberden coin room holds antique cash objects from around the world. As we test our faith in digital cryptocurrencies, what can we learn from its collection?
Larry Elliott Economics editor
04, Jun, 2022 @6:00 AM
Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – the ‘old man’ who was always pushing art forward
Camille Pissarro may be less famous than Monet, Renoir or Degas but his genius lay in always making you think, not feel
Jonathan Jones
16, Feb, 2022 @3:43 PM
Tokyo: Art and Photography review – all of spellbinding life is here
This show is a superbly various survey of Japanese graphic art – and most particularly of the incomparable Hiroshige
Laura Cumming
15, Aug, 2021 @12:00 PM
Stuffed Tokyo super-rats and Isaac Julien’s abolition hero – the week in art
A vibrant survey of the Olympic capital in art and a 10-screen video devoted to anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass – all in your weekly dispatch
Jonathan Jones
30, Jul, 2021 @12:22 PM
Tokyo review – lust and loneliness in Japan’s pleasure quarters
A seductive encounter with past and present at the Olympic city shows that Tokyo practically invented modern art
Jonathan Jones
27, Jul, 2021 @4:33 PM
Samson Kambalu: New Liberia; Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours – review
Kambalu, a Malawian fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, tears a strip off Britain’s colonial legacy. And precision is all for the pre-Raphaelites
Laura Cumming
19, Jun, 2021 @1:00 PM
Dorothy Cuninghame obituary
Other Lives: Secretary and housewife who gave medical help to displaced people in Germany after the second world war
Christopher Cuninghame
14, Jun, 2021 @9:33 AM
'Fake' Rembrandt came from artist's workshop and is possibly genuine
Head of a Bearded Man revealed to be from same wood panel used for Rembrandt’s Andromeda
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
30, Aug, 2020 @1:05 PM
An everyday archive and a virtual trip to Rembrandt's Amsterdam – the week in art
Socially distanced exhibition slots are available for Ella Kruglyanskaya and Jim Dine, while online offerings include Amazonian artist Abel Rodriguez – all in your weekly dispatch
Jonathan Jones
19, Jun, 2020 @2:46 PM
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