Historian acknowledged programme as 1969 "hugely influential" despite it being an "entirely European story"

The historian, giving a lecture at London's Royal Society, argued that by taking a freer approach to its buildings and collections, the conservation charity could fend off populist critics

Seven portraits of British women by female Magnum photographers will enter the permanent collection of London's newly reopened gallery as it attempts to balance a historic gender disparity

Plus, Art Basel: are the buyers back? And Mary Beard on images of power

Ex-politician, who presided over austerity cuts to culture, takes up the position on 4 October

Plus, London Gallery Weekend and Nina Katchadourian on her adopted grandmother's embroidery

"Museums have always been controversial. Who should be allowed in? And on what terms?" asks the celebrated classicist

The recipient of the 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal discusses how understanding Cicero can help decipher the rise of populism

Documentary breaks with many of the assumptions in the art historian’s seminal series, but it also owes a great deal to it