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Faith in numbers: the Chinese art market has flourished, but is Western excitement premature? Market

The dodgy numbers game

Was the 2011 joint turnover of the Chinese auction houses $154.2bn, $148.5bn, $88.1bn—or much less? (Faith in numbers: the Chinese art market has flourished, but is Western excitement premature?) Published online: 17 May 2012
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What Chinese collectors are really buying

Buyers are still overwhelmingly focused on domestic art, ranging from archaic bronzes to "wet paint" works by contemporary Chinese artists

Published online: 17 May 2012

Move to Hong Kong? Sounds like a good idea…

The opportunities for selling contemporary art are proving irresistible to many

Published online: 17 May 2012

Credit card investigation shows art market open to international fraud

Criminal charges brought after London and regional UK auction houses are targeted

Published online: 17 May 2012

The reluctant comic-book hero

A major survey of R. Crumb’s countercultural cartoons opened in Paris last month, but he remains mystified by the attention

Published online: 16 May 2012

British naval heritage at risk of being sold off

Artefacts from HMS Victory could be auctioned to pay for its excavation by US company

Published online: 16 May 2012

French supermarket boss wants to put contemporary art in a countryside landscape

Michel-Edouard Leclerc plans gallery for former convent and shop complex

Published online: 15 May 2012

Interview with Martin Bethenod, director of Palazzo Grassi, Venice

As the private gallery of the French billionaire collector hosts its first solo show by a living artists, we speak to the director about its future plans

Published online: 14 May 2012

Fire breaks out at Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museum

The blaze on the new building's top floor was quickly put out Monday afternoon and no art or staff was in danger

Published online: 14 May 2012

London’s Olympic tower is “definitely art” says mayor

The spiralling ArcelorMittal Orbit may appear ungainly from a distance, but ascending the structure is an aesthetic experience

Published online: 11 May 2012

Send us your Polaroids

Project will document the “magical” film’s contribution to art and science

Published online: 10 May 2012

Schiele case could damage NY business, say dealers

Ruling in long-standing restitution battle may threaten defence that a purchase was made in good faith

Published online: 10 May 2012

Allianoi archaeologist awarded cultural heritage prize

Ahmet Yaras’s campaign to save Turkey's ancient Roman spa town from flooding is now in the running for one of six €10,000 “grand prizes”

Published online: 09 May 2012

No longer appropriate?

“Appropriating” other artists’ work without consent is still common, but savvier practitioners know that permission is far less painful. Breaching copyright is a serious business

Published online: 09 May 2012

Pinchuk’s Future Generation Prize extends deadline

Artists of any nationality aged up to 35 can apply to win the $100,000 award, funded by the Ukrainian collector’s foundation

Published online: 09 May 2012

Champagne-and-humbug launch for Photographers’ Gallery

Sparks (sort of) flew last night at the opening of the newly revamped Photographers' Gallery in London on Thursday night, when arts heavyweight Liz Forgan followed the ever ebullient Ed Vaizey, the arts minister, as guest speaker at the swanky launch bash. Ed introduced Liz as “our very own Dame >>>

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Video: The director of Art Brussels, Karen Renders

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In Search of Hirst’s Spots

Cristina Ruiz, our intrepid editor-at-large, completed Gagosian’s Damien Hirst Spot Challenge. She visited all 11 Gagosian galleries from Hong Kong to Beverly Hills “backpacker style”, and is now awaiting her prize—a signed Hirst spot print, with a dedication by the artist. Look back on her blog about her travels.

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Tracey Emin: She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea, from Saturday, 26 May in Margate

margate. Despite a difficult childhood on the Kent coast, where her parents separated and where she has told of her rape aged 13, Tracey Emin declared her affection for her hometown in I Never Stopped Loving You, a work commissioned by Turner Contemporary in 2010. Now, for her first show in...

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