Museum Journeys: The most unusual art museums to visit
29 July 2024 • Gaston La-Gaffe
In the realm of cultural exploration, art museums are seen as the epitome of imaginative human activities. However, some places… Read More
29 July 2024 • Gaston La-Gaffe
In the realm of cultural exploration, art museums are seen as the epitome of imaginative human activities. However, some places… Read More
11 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see right now in museums and institutional art galleries. Each one comes with a… Read More
3 April 2018 • Tabish Khan
What’s Wrong With Art? No Photography: Tabish Khan loves art and visits hundreds of exhibitions a year. But every now and then he comes across something in the art world that doesn’t meet his approval.
10 July 2017 • Mark Westall
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
4 July 2017 • Syndicate
Bad sound and indifferent crowds have traditionally made galleries dangerous places for live music, but a new breed of curators are changing the tune
15 August 2016 • Mark Westall
Figures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
11 August 2016 • Syndicate
Museum to celebrate career of pioneers who transformed live music with their dazzling light shows
7 March 2016 • Syndicate
Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
15 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soul
26 January 2016 • Staff
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
9 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Wonder at Botticini’s Paradise, see Turner’s bracing vistas in Edinburgh, and explore the roots of the European winter festival at the V&A
8 November 2015 • Mark Westall
It was a ruin when he lived there, then nearly ruined by millions of trampling tourists after his death. Now the Musée Rodin has been playfully vamped up – and it’s even got a giant chocolate tribute to France’s most famous sculptor
2 November 2015 • Mark Westall
From 700-year-old swords and 19th-century ‘living doll’ to Hello Kitty cooker, army of conservators have painstaking revived museum collection
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
8 September 2015 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
When architecture practice boss Caroline Keppel Palmer saw how much exhibition material museums had to throw away for lack of storage space she had a very #GOODIDEA…
27 August 2015 • Mark Westall
London show will feature modern artwork, fashion, film and music inspired by the Renaissance artist, as well as large collection of original Botticelli paintings
9 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The cultural impact of designs such as the Air Jordan and Rick Owen’s high-end efforts chart how the footwear went from casual runaround to chic statement
11 May 2015 • Staff
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Connect! is the national competition that gives members of the public the chance to win a leading contemporary artist to create a unique event at their local museum or gallery during Museums at Night, the UK’s after hours festival of arts, culture and heritage.
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
8 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Museum raises £5m for four bronze statues originally designed for tomb of Henry VIII’s disgraced former adviser
8 October 2014 • VC Maurer
Robert Gober retrospective now on view at MoMA until January 15,2015. Click here to read more…
21 May 2013 • Mark Westall
First Time Out project will display unusual treasures that curators have retrieved from their stores