Oxford University to return 500-year-old sculpture of Hindu saint to India
March 2024
Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings review – vital, intimate, exceptionally intense
So fragile that they are rarely seen in public, 120 of Flemish art’s finest drawings show you the minds and hands of the artists at work – chief among them the surprisingly dark and mysterious Rubens
‘Every single work is a masterpiece’: the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest Flemish drawings
A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life
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Intense photographic visions, a journey to Rome and a dealer-turned-painter – the week in art
A wealth of northern Renaissance drawings; photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman, and recognition for gallerist Betty Parsons – all in your weekly dispatch
December 2023
How a European colour revolution brought us the humble Christmas card
Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother; Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design – review
September 2023
To dye for: why Victorian Britain was more colourful than we think
A new exhibition shows how a textile transformation brought brightness to the masses, in an era where electric purples and absinthe greens reigned supreme
August 2023
Don’t smear our museums – they are not all institutionally corrupt
Letters: Harry Dickinson and Daniel Smernicki on a report that said thefts by staff are a common problem in museums
May 2023
Oxford University cuts ties with Sackler family over links with opioids
University follows other institutions in removing titles of family who make OxyContin painkiller
February 2023
Half–bull, half-truth… How English archaeologist claimed credit for discovering home of the minotaur
Oxford museum aims to ‘set the record straight’ about the discovery of Knossos Palace in Crete
August 2022
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...
July 2022
Oxford University may return items looted from Nigeria by Britain in 1897
University council supports claim for 97 artefacts, including bronzes, currently held in city’s museums
June 2022
Summer on a budget
Thrifty summer: free films, folk and standup – 25 cost-free ways to enjoy arts in the UK
Penny savings: taking the measure of money at the Ashmolean museum
February 2022
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
August 2021
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
July 2021
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Stuffed Tokyo super-rats and Isaac Julien’s abolition hero – the week in art
Tokyo review – lust and loneliness in Japan’s pleasure quarters
June 2021
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
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