How many visitors can a museum take?

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Arjun Sajip asks if museums now prize quality over quantity

Last month Miguel Falomir, director of the Prado, caused a stir at a press conference when he said, 'The Prado doesn't need a single visitor more.' The success of a museum, he added, 'can collapse it, like the Louvre, with some rooms becoming oversaturated. The important thing is not to collapse.'

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Wolf Burchard talks to Apollo about Europe's most ambitious carpets

This week, and for one week only, 32 enormous carpets made for Louis XIV have been rolled out under the glass roof of the Grand Palais in Paris. Wolf Burchard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art talks to Edward Behrens about putting together a once-in-a-lifetime display.

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Anna Brady on the LA art scene after boom, bust and natural disaster

One year on, as they approach Frieze Los Angeles at the end of February, galleries are taking stock after a difficult year. 'LA feels like it's done 15 rounds in a title fight and that impacts the city's confidence,' says the dealer Stefan Simchowitz.

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Lucy Davies on the sisters who shook up Victorian society

Before she became Mrs Thoby Prinsep, Sara was a Pattle – one of seven Anglo-Indian sisters whose combined arsenal of breezy bohemianism, artistic talent, beauty, idiosyncratic dress and facility for making connections and conversation had a significant influence on 19th-century British culture.

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Debika Ray is inspired and frustrated at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

When it comes to the artists, the roster is strong and rewarding. International figures such as Ibrahim Mahama and Marina Abramović lend star power, but the exhibition's most compelling contributions come from mid-career to more established artists working across India. Many operate outside the country's major metropolitan centres, bringing practices shaped by local contexts rather than international exhibition circuits.

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Tim Smith-Laing reads a magisterial new biography of Hans Holbein

It is strange to think that the artist who preserved so many of his contemporaries for posterity was buried anonymously. When Holbein fell victim to the plague in the autumn of 1543, the graveyard of his parish church in Aldgate was full. He may have been lucky enough to make it inside the church itself, but it seems just as likely that his body was tossed into a plague pit among the other indiscriminate dead. 'If that was his fate,' notes Elizabeth Goldring in this superb biography, 'it was an ignominious end for someone who in life had been hailed as a worthy and revolutionary heir to the greatest painters of Antiquity'.

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