Museums
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Greek prime minister says loan of statue from pillaged frieze puts end to British Museum argument that disputed antiquities are immovable
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Headless statue of a Greek god Ilissos goes on display in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg
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General Walter Congreve VC describes to his wife how soldiers shared cigars and sang songs together in no man’s land
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The culture team talks summer music festivals, whether fashion is art and if Australians are intellectuals. Plus we nominate our top December must-dos that don't involve tinsel
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Exhibition opening at the Ashmolean features more than 90 works, tracing Blake’s life from apprentice to master
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Costume designer Michele Clapton discussed the HBO show’s sartorial subtleties such as Jaime Lannister’s golden hand and whether the Greyjoys stink of fish oil
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Patricia Piccinini’s uncanny creatures take over Newcastle, the National Archives throw open their doors and Japanese architecture gets reflective in this week’s must sees
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Series star Fred Savage’s mother kept it since show ended in 1993, joking that museum might want it one day
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Branches of Sadler’s Wells dance theatre, V&A museum and two universities planned for Olympic Park in Stratford
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Leading British architect, who works in both cities, bemoans lack of public realm and discussion of buildings’ meaning in Britain
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As his River of Fundament reaches Tasmania, the artist talks to Nancy Groves about near misses, full-frontal nudity and why he’s happy never quite arriving
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Forget Hirst or Emin – the nation should be funding artists loved by the public, says leading arts figure Julian Spalding
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Letters: Friedrich’s shocking 1924 book War Against War! – which Paul Mason describes – is available in print again in English. It was republished by Spokesman Books earlier this year
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Monty the Mammoth is one of the most complete skeletons of the species and was purchased at auction by a private UK buyer
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Nigel Warburton: The moral philosopher: The paintings left to Bern Museum by Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Nazi-era collector, may have strictly speaking been legally acquired but many were seized from Jewish owners
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The museum has dusted off its plaster masterpieces, including Michelangelo’s David, to give a rare glimpse of Victorian mores and ambitions. Oliver Wainwright takes a tour
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Sean O'Hagan on photography Marrakech is set to become photography's global HQ – so why aren't locals happy?
As one of the world’s biggest photography galleries prepares to open in Morocco, some locals are still furious about having their – and even their horse’s – picture taken, writes Sean O’Hagan -
The museum’s resident inventor on designing for the Queen and how new technologies are opening up the maker community
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Arts sponsorship: the slippery issue of ethics
Michelle WrightYes, arts organisations need to be careful about who they take money from, but over-cautious companies could end up with nowt -
Over the past two years, the V&A Museum of Childhood has been bringing together dolls’ houses dating from 1712 to 2001 for an exhibition, writes Kathryn Bromwich
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GrrlScientist: Natural history museums are many things, but they are not peopled exclusively with dry, dusty old white men, rooting around in dry, dusty old drawers, examining dry, dusty old dead things.
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1813 work, believed to be a portrait of foreign secretary’s daughter, acquired with funds from art teacher’s bequest
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Letters: We place a much higher value on things that are rare or unique, provided they speak to us in some significant way
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Expert committee to identify remains held in French museums and guide possible repatriation to Australia
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Tori Herridge: Instead of the romantic idea of bringing an ice age animal back to life, shouldn’t we put our best efforts into saving endangered elephants?
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A radical overhaul disguised as a modest intervention, the new building wears its ambitions lightly – apart from one serious flaw
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Museum curator explains how an exhibition at Iran National Museum highlights the precarious balance of man’s 200,000-year-old relationship with the natural world
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The design agency behind the Van Gogh museum website reveal how they brought the artist and his work to life
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Polly Toynbee: As the V&A prepares to reopen its cast courts with its glorious reproductions, you'd be forgiven for thinking authenticity is overrated
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Lost for more than 50 years since they were featured in Life magazine, Gordon Parks’s stunning images show daily life for one Alabama family in the shadow of race riots, bus boycotts and the fight for civil rights
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Workers in Kentucky arrived to start plugging hole, which became popular attraction and consumed eight prized sports cars in February
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Victorian floor plans and descriptions by contemporaries help curators envisage work space from home demolished in 1918
First thoughts The British Museum is wrong to loan the Parthenon marbles to Russia