Museums
Tell us: how do you feel about returning to cinemas, museums and galleries?
We would like to hear about what you’re enjoying most about returning to cinemas, museums and galleries now that UK coronavirus restrictions have lifted
Guardian community team
23, Sep, 2021 @3:01 PM
National Gallery of Australia orders $14m Ouroboros sculpture – its most expensive commission so far
Thirteen-tonne artwork depicting a snake eating its tail will be large enough for visitors to walk through
Stephanie Convery
23, Sep, 2021 @2:37 AM
Essex art gallery endangered by funding crisis named museum of the year 2021
Firstsite’s ‘innovation and integrity’ during pandemic wins Art Fund’s £100,000 prize
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
21, Sep, 2021 @7:00 PM
‘We want people to freak out’: inside Hollywood’s Museum of Motion Pictures
Boasting the shark from Jaws, the robe from the Big Lebowski, and the slippers from Oz, the Academy museum is finally open. But the real story is its exposé of Hollywood’s racist, sexist past
Sam Levin in Los Angeles
21, Sep, 2021 @5:00 PM
Sci-fi script and a cage-shaped mosque: Islamic art gets subversive
From subtle riffs on traditional script-based decoration to a late father’s letters to his lover, the artists vying for the Jameel prize generate deep emotion from meticulousness
David Shariatmadari
21, Sep, 2021 @4:27 PM
Mary Beard: ‘If we want to understand the pandemic, we need the arts’
The classicist on owning her TV image, dealing with internet trolls, and why her new book on Roman emperors sheds light on our preoccupation with statues
Rachel Cooke
19, Sep, 2021 @8:00 AM
A smirking masterwork and Christo’s posthumous triumph – the week in art
Hals dazzles London, Shonibare devises a Royal revamp and Liverpool gets a lesson in sex and death – all in your weekly dispatch
Jonathan Jones
17, Sep, 2021 @2:00 PM
Undercover heiress: the Chicago meat-packing scion who outfoxed the Gestapo
She took tea with Sigmund Freud, had an affair with Stephen Spender, risked her life in the Austrian resistance – and inspired an Oscar-winning film. Can a new show about Muriel Gardiner capture her extraordinary life?
Claire Armitstead
13, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
Berlin’s bizarre new museum: a Prussian palace rebuilt for €680m
A cross between a Disneyland castle and a chilling concrete block, the Humboldt Forum is set to teach visitors about Germany’s colonial era. But is the past being examined – or exalted?
Oliver Wainwright
09, Sep, 2021 @11:32 AM
Science Museum to remove climate placard from Shell-sponsored show
Student group says placard’s inclusion in Our Future Planet exhibition is attempt to greenwash oil company
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
09, Sep, 2021 @8:00 AM
Hong Kong police raid Tiananmen massacre museum
Crackdown follows arrest of four members of civil society group that ran June 4th Museum
Helen Davidson in Taipei
09, Sep, 2021 @7:29 AM
First Nations photography, reframed: ‘This is who we really are’
A new exhibition is correcting the record in Queensland, contrasting staged historical photography with the vibrant present
Kate Hennessy
06, Sep, 2021 @5:30 PM
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