Cultural institutions and parks

Turkey’s cultural ambitions: Of marbles and men

Turkey gets tough with foreign museums and launches a new culture war(255)

Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence: A spot of romance

Some characters are too compelling to relinquish(3)

Leonardo da Vinci's "Saint Anne": It's a family affair

Cleaned and restored, this remarkable work is back on view(7)

Urban design: Road warriors

Shared spaces work in Britain, but not for the advertised reasons(7)

Government funding for the arts: Up in flames

A museum director sets artwork alight in Italy in an inflammatory move to raise more public money(14)

Art and disease: In sickness and in health

American germ-busters' unlikely museum displays some fine contemporary art, and more(2)

Local museums: Small change

Fighting to save local history as budget cuts bite(0)

Art and the Middle East: Qatar’s culture queen

At 29, Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani is the art world’s most powerful woman. Is she using her money well?(40)

The art of Francesca Woodman: Hauntingly precocious

The brief life and bracing imagery of a young artist(0)

Conservation: Animals without borders

The world's largest conservation area is launched in southern Africa(2)

The Jerwood in Hastings: Eye of the beholder

An appealing new gallery of 20th century art(1)

Culture and regeneration: Art the conqueror

The age of swanky new arts buildings draws to a close(6)

Suburban design: Pomp and paternalism

A new architecture exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art(17)

A sperm bank for elephants: The big freeze

Tackling inbreeding in zoos(10)

Cindy Sherman at MoMA: Mistress of self-effacement

An American photographer reveals herself as never before(2)

Bill Traylor at the High Museum of Art: He drew what he saw

An unprecedented tribute to the work of Bill Traylor, a rare folk-art visionary(0)

Lucian Freud in London: Local hero

Decades of portraits in the flesh(0)

Contemporary art: Cosmic queen

Yayoi Kusama is painting more intensely than ever, as can be seen in a major travelling retrospective of six decades of her work(3)

India Art Fair: A change is gonna come

Signs of promise for India's nascent arts scene(3)

The Design Museum in London: Come for the building, stay for the toasters

Terence Conran unveils plans for a new and bigger space(5)

Spider silk at the V&A: A tangled (and exquisite) web they wove

Bizarrely beautiful unwearable textiles(16)

Leonardo da Vinci in London: Yes, it's worth it

The crowds are remarkable, but so is the reason to brave them(8)