Ashmolean Museum
'Two ex-art students just getting on with it': Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood to have first museum show next summer
Donwood reveals the thinking behind the band’s album covers over the past 30 years—and why he gave up trying to paint a portrait of the band
Rare Fra Angelico crucifixion scene acquired by Ashmolean for £4.48m after tense fundraising campaign
The Oxford museum took action after the UK government placed an export bar on the work earlier this year
Tracey Emin, who made that bed, is made a dame
Other recipients in King Charles III’s birthday honours include the philanthropist Hannah Rothschild and sculptor Andrew Logan
A question of attribution: just how useful can AI tools be?
Connoisseurs and app makers agree on one thing: artificial intelligence-driven apps may supplement but do not replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship
Ashmolean Museum in bitter, 20-year dispute over Augustus John works
Heirs claim they were loaned and want them back; the museum says decision not yet made
After close ties revealed, University of Oxford drops Sackler name from museum and libraries—but keeps the money
The university will remove name from the Ashmolean Museum and the Bodleian Libraries
Oxford exhibition unearths the fascinating story of Minoan culture and its discovery
Ashmolean Museum show will reveal how the excavations of its former keeper 100 years ago helped popularise a Minoan world of mythological minotaurs and labyrinths
John Sainsbury, former supermarket boss and major patron of British museums, has died aged 94
Benefactors of his gifts include London's National Gallery, Tate Britain, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Royal Opera House
The cost of the cuts: what now for UK museums as the Covid-19 crisis bites?
Museum directors in London and the regions are cutting jobs and slashing budgets, raising concerns for the post-pandemic future of the sector
A real Rembrandt? Study shows painting banished to storeroom is either by his studio or the master himself
A recent examination of the wood panel reveals that it is from the same Baltic oak tree as the panel of an authenticated work by the Dutch artist
More than 40 UK museums and conservators donate personal protective equipment to help NHS fight coronavirus
Conservation departments are sending gloves, masks and Tyvek suits to hospitals and ambulance services
India asks Ashmolean Museum to return 15th-century bronze idol believed stolen from temple
Independent scholar uncovers questionable provenance for the sculpture that the Oxford institution bought from Sotheby's in 1967
Ashmolean Museum show unearths doomed Pompeii's culinary life
The exhibition in Oxford, which contains loans that have never before left Italy, includes a (possible) Roman version of a chamber pot
Jeff Koons says computer technology allowed him to downsize his New York studio
The US artist has laid off the majority of his painting assistants to focus on experimenting with sculpture
Jeff Koons's balloons, basketballs and ballerinas to head to historic Oxford museum for solo show
“Miniature retrospective” at the Ashmolean will focus on recent works, such as the US artist’s Gazing Ball series
Pierced hearts, unicorn horns and a bottled witch: Oxford show investigates the history of magic and witchcraft
Around 180 objects at the Ashmolean Museum reveal how humans have embraced the occult over the past eight centuries
A long history of scholarship drives survey of Raphael’s drawings currently exhibited at the Ashmolean
Debate over attribution has marked modern scholarship on this great master, bringing nuance to the Oxford show
Ashmolean to return silver salt cellar to Jewish collector’s heirs
The UK Spoliation Advisory Panel concluded that the piece was the subject of a forced sale in the 1930s
Unexpected chemistry between Moore and Bacon on show at the Ashmolean
This show compares the two artists, revealing that the painter even asked the sculptor for lessons
Jenny Saville's beefy bodies go on show in Oxford
This is the first solo show of the British artist in a UK public gallery
The catalogue of the Ashmolean’s English and continental gold and silver
Oxford’s greatest treasure trove
East meets West in the University of Oxford’s new-look museum of art and archaeology
Ashmolean bridges the cultural divide
Libeskind extension turned down by Heritage Lottery Fund
The Victoria and Albert Museum is now likely to drop the £70 million project
Ashmolean shows Renaissance bronzes with Daniel Katz
Centenary of collector, C.D.E. Fortnum, celebrated with exhibition and lectures at Society of Antiquaries
From the archive | When Jacob Rothschild spoke out about the challenges of running the Heritage Lottery Fund
Rothschild retired as the first chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund at the end of March 1998. In a rare interview, he described its relationship with government
New evidence shows painted Greek pottery would have been found in Poundland rather than at Plato's dinner table
Greek vases were incredibly cheap at the time, despite taking pride of place in our museums