Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery

Podcast: The Week in Art · The Art Newspaper

Opublikowano: 2026-04-02

The UK government last week issued a response to a report ostensibly exploring the future of the funding body Arts Council England but containing an idea that has prompted much debate: that the government should consider changing its policy of free admission for all to national museums in England, and charge tourists an entry fee. Ben Luke discusses the report and the charging issue with Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper’s chief contributing editor, and one of our London-based correspondents, Dale Berning Sawa. Last weekend in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened Raphael: Sublime Poetry, amazingly the fi...