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Tate are offering a new space which should help challenge the elitism currently characterising the arts.
An astonishing new museum opened near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on June 1.
A 9,000-year-old skeleton became a high-profile and highly contested case for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. How do we respectfully deal with ancient human remains?
Unlike museums and stadiums, weekend music and arts festivals can promote culture without gouging taxpayers.
You don’t have to be a physician or anatomist to be curious about how bodies work. Exhibits of dead human specimens have been around for quite a while – capitalizing on our fascination with death.
Museums are cracking open the temperature-controlled, dehumidified display cases and inviting people in. Working with Aboriginal communities is reawakening cultural connections and ancient art forms.
The decision looks like a reinforcement of the large imbalance in cultural spending between London and the north of England.
The Dja Dja Warrung bark etchings are hugely significant Aboriginal artefacts. They’re back in Australia for only the second time in 160 years. We look at the complex issue of repatriation.
That traditional monolith of culture, the museum, has begun to embrace the digital world. As a series of projects reveal, the possibilities are endless.
A review of some of the top arts and culture stories from the past year.
The history of the picture title is really a history of the last 300 years.
Many think that the ideal museum should be removed from the vicissitudes of the market. This is an illusion.
Egyptian mummies have fascinated Europeans since the 5th century, but a new exhibition considers the more recent role they have played in medicine, art and popular culture – and the ethics of their display in museums.
An exciting new exhibition at the Science Museum in London celebrates Soviet space success.
People need to be taught how to behave around art.
Fearing their neighborhood’s rich history would be forever lost in the wake of Katrina, residents teamed up with a group of volunteers to create a museum of living history.
Our morbid interest in the macabre never vanished – it was just displaced.
Islamic art in Australia is inaccessible and largely overlooked. It is rarely taught as a dedicated subject in Australian universities, and almost never seen beyond state capitals. Why?
Here’s how some of the world’s oldest cultural institutions are using drones and 3D printing to bring their collections to life.
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