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Thursday 17 November 2011 Museums and galleries
Nancy McDermott
A photographer’s life
From the formal portrait to the casual family snapshot, Annie Leibovitz always manages to reveal her subject’s humanity.

Wednesday 7 June 2006
Tiffany Jenkins
‘Reparations are a substitute for progressive politics’
The author of a new book on the reparations industry, John Torpey, explains why payouts for past suffering are not the way forward.

Wednesday 31 May 2006
Josie Appleton
The tide turns against culture
Why are museums and heritage groups rebranding themselves as apparently brave warriors against the gods of Global Warming?

Tuesday 16 May 2006
Anna Travis
Dead dreams of utopia
Why has a London museum exhibition on Modernism caused so much disquiet?

Friday 2 September 2005
Sara Selwood and Maurice Davies
Museums: after the Lottery boom
National Lottery cash for museums was justified in terms of increased visitors. But do the sums add up?

Wednesday 27 July 2005
JJ Charlesworth
A clever twenty-first century fool
Mark McGowan's 'running tap' artwork touched the raw nerve of environmental correctness.

Thursday 19 May 2005
Tiffany Jenkins
Memorial museums: cabinets of misery
There is an unhealthy obsession with showcasing the dark side of history.

Tuesday 17 May 2005
James Heartfield
Abolish the DCMS
A cultural critic argues that arts funding should not be a matter for government.

Friday 22 April 2005
Tiffany Jenkins
Obelisks for all
The decision to return a 1,700-year-old stone from Italy to Ethiopia was motivated by narrow cultural determinism.

Friday 15 April 2005
Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 15 April
The Impressionists make today's enfants terribles of art look like dullards.

Tuesday 1 February 2005
JJ Charlesworth
What has happened to art criticism?
The critic is becoming a dandified copywriter, producing 'beautiful writing about beautiful objects and their beautiful makers’.

Wednesday 19 May 2004
Emilie Bickerton
New Blood
Additions to the Saatchi Gallery suggest that there's life in young British art yet.

Wednesday 28 April 2004
Josie Appleton
The object of art museums
James Cuno, director of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, believes that museums should stick to what they do best rather than trying to be schools or daycare centres.

Friday 16 April 2004
Josie Appleton
El Greco
The National Gallery's sixteenth-century Greek doesn't need dressing up in Britart clothes.

Tuesday 17 June 2003
Josie Appleton
Pickling the Nineties
The new Saatchi Gallery preserves the near past in formaldehyde.

Tuesday 29 April 2003
Josie Appleton
Cultural diversity: different strokes
Does cultural diversity policy benefit the arts?

Monday 20 January 2003
Josie Appleton
Making an exhibition of museums
The Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries aims to create buzz about projects that aim to create buzz.

Monday 30 December 2002
Sara Selwood
Measuring culture
Collecting statistics to prove the 'use' of the arts has been largely useless, says the editor of Cultural Trends.

Monday 30 December 2002
Sara Selwood
Measuring culture
Collecting statistics to prove the 'use' of the arts has been largely useless, says the editor of Cultural Trends.

Monday 23 December 2002
Josie Appleton
Aztecs
The Royal Academy's new exhibition is a fascinating combination of the familiar and the foreign

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