Jake Chapman is being a snob. Taking children to art galleries is vital

The artist claims children ‘are not human yet’ and thus can’t understand art. But art teaches us what it means to be human

Travel news roundup: wilderness Scotland and visa-free Kazakhstan

Plus: What’s cooking in Copenhagen, dinosaurs at the Eden Project and foot-pampering on the move in Japan

Conservationists call for Canary Islands whale sanctuary instead of oil scheme

World Wide Fund for Nature launches campaign as Repsol announces that exploratory drilling could start in October

Luxury hunting and fishing estates hit record high price

Demand for exclusive properties and grounds for stalking deer or fishing for salmon has soared, says study by estate agents

Shard leads Olympic Aquatics Centre in race for the Stirling prize

Other contenders for architecture award include Birmingham library, Everyman theatre in Liverpool and LSE student centre

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Oxford’s Ashmolean exhibition reveals real curse of Tutankhamun

‘Discovering Tutankhamun’ returns visitors to the Tut mania that followed 1923 excavation of the boy king’s tomb