In a world of data theft and online scams, there is something thrillingly analogue about these audacious robberiesNow, let me begin by saying: stealing is bad. I don’t think you should steal things. It is a good way to get...
Read MoreDisplayed in a redesigned space, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert’s expansive collection of decorative items is not only gorgeous, at last it boldly tackles the question of where these valuables came fromWe periodically hear...
Read MoreA collection of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadowThe mummy of Egypt’s most ambitious...
Read MoreThe National Gallery’s latest financial woes have brought the possibility of charging visitors back into the frameFor a quarter of a century, visitors to the UK’s national museums and galleries have enjoyed universal...
Read MoreThe president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sightsOn 30 May last year, Kim Sajet was working in her...
Read MoreA mindblowing new show reveals the human cost when the political system turns against the people, putting stories and faces to the hundreds of thousands of citizens thought to have died due to austerityThe Museum of Austerity,...
Read MoreThe Frattini Bivouac is part of a Bergamo gallery’s experiment to ‘think like a mountain’. But in the thin air of the Italian alps, curatorial ideas are challenged in more ways than oneAt 2,300 metres above sea...
Read MoreIt is architect David Adjaye’s first major project since the allegations that rocked his firm – a bold museum for Princeton University with exhibits that sneak up on its students. But do the insides match the...
Read MoreStation Hall displays from a microwave-burger box to royal carriages intended to showcase best and worst of rail travelThere is Queen Victoria’s funeral wreath, a station ticket kiosk allegedly used by Rod Stewart and then...
Read MoreThe museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern artWhen a national institution starts to sound like Spın̈al Tap, you know it’s in...
Read MoreFormer coalminers join fellow museum staff in strike over pay which is due to last until mid-September“Who’d have thought we’d be doing this again?” Arthur Scargill said earlier this week, raising a laugh...
Read MoreThe French president has spent time with King Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the first day of his state visit to the UKFrench police slashing the boats of people smugglers is not “pleasant” but the...
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