Museums
The Collectors: Museums and the ethics of acquisition
A former curator at the Getty Museum is on trial in Italy for receiving stolen antiquities; governments of Italy and…
An ugly duckling no more: the Barb turns 25
March is the 25th birthday of the much loved, and much hated Barbican Centre in London. Out of a bomb…
Landmark of the ages
The gathering place for New Year’s Eve in New York City is a place that forms an “X” where Broadway…
A gallery that moves at your own pace
Slip on your lycra pants and go browse the UK's longest gallery.
Heritage Counts 2005
Heritage definitely counts, and unless the needs of our rural heritage in particular is addressed, its long term survival is…
The Cultured Tourist
The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) forecasts that 1.6 billion people will travel as tourists by the year 2020 - a…
Finders keepers
Tangible and intangible cultural materials - art, craft, artefacts and human remains - have been hot property since the earliest…
English copy Welsh to make Own Art
English taking a lead from the Welsh? Surely not! Strange as it may seem to some, Arts Council England’s Own…
Generation W
Western marketing firms have made their business out of understanding generations that come in letters of the alphabet such as…
The Values of the Parthenon, the Honour of the European Union and the Legacies of an Ecumenical Debt
In a recent paper by Angelos Delivorrias, Director of the Benaki Museum in Athens, the history of the Parthenon Marbles…