Museum of the Year 2014: what makes a winner?
Artist Tracey Emin, historian David Starkey, designer Margaret Howell and others champion their favourite exhibition space
Museums
Inhotim, Brazil’s giant open-air art gallery
Set amid 500,000 acres of botanical gardens near Belo Horizonte, where England play their final World Cup game, a visit to the remarkable Inhotim will cheer up dejected footie fans
Why New York’s Metropolitan museum is leader of the free world of art
The Met, all set to rebuild its modern wing, mixes Rembrandts with Pollocks to create an unrivalled cocktail of past and present. Why can’t British art museums be as open-minded?
Curators may be sceptical but branding is vital for museums
The Tate and British Museum are among institutions that have adopted brand thinking – taken seriously, it can help our scholarship reach more people
Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty show to come to London
Fashion designer’s retrospective, the eighth most visited exhibition in Metropolitan Museum’s 142-year history, to be at V&A in 2015
From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour
A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style