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6 April 2015

Episode 182

30 minutes

Rob Bound analyses the results of 'The Art Newspaper' exhibition and its museum-attendance survey for 2014 to find out which institutions come out on top around the world. Is it the masters or the contemporaries who are pulling in the crowds?

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