Jeff Koons’s big, shiny sculptures have the wow factor, but borrowing them for a museum comes at an eye-watering cost. Oxford’s Ashmolean spent just over $1 million transporting and installing 17 of ...

The unifying factor is that all the work on view is concerned with elements from the observable world: landscapes, portraits, domesticities, fantasies set in realistic frameworks, models in the ...

Oxford’s historic art and archaeology museum has released its 2026 exhibition programme with an exciting offering including global botany and Greco-Roman goddesses. The major exhibitions for the ...

But the Ashmolean is – bolstered, too, by its nearly breaking the million-visitor mark last year – a master at barter: as the repository of more Michelangelo drawings than anywhere else, its loans ...

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