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Design for the Palestinian Museum Museums

Director outlines vision for new Palestinian Museum

Jack Persekian emphasises giving a voice to local history, as foundation stones are laid (Design for the Palestinian Museum) Published online: 14 May 2013
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Contemporary art held in the Tower

A show of works by established and emerging artists opens in one of London’s most historic sites

Published online: 13 May 2013

How prevalent is money laundering in the art world?

Federal raid on the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York and a new book by a Brazilian judge point to a "big problem"

Published online: 13 May 2013

Chris Burden survey for New Museum

October show will include four new works including a sculpture of a 1974 Porsche transfixed by a 365lb meteorite

Published online: 09 May 2013

No sex please, we’re Russian?

Questions over theatrical release for Peter Greenaway’s dizzying, dazzling—and sexually explicit—new film

Published online: 08 May 2013

Boston museum sets its sights 20ft high

Museum of Fine Arts reinstalls an 18th-century English drawing room

Published online: 08 May 2013

Bad feelings over Abu Dhabi’s unspent €25m gift to the Louvre

Letter leaked to left-wing French newspaper reveals not all has been well between emirati and French authorities

Published online: 07 May 2013

 

World heritage centre planned for Cairo

Specialists would assist in protecting World Heritage Sites in Africa

Published online: 07 May 2013

Norwegian government steps in on Munch Museum row

Funding is contingent on local politicians settling their differences

Published online: 06 May 2013

Bolognese answer to Vasari’s Lives published in English for the first time

First book is part a 16-volume edition of Malvasia’s account of the 14th- to the 17th-century school

Published online: 06 May 2013

Beyond the British Pavilion

Northern Ireland will not be represented again at this year’s Venice Biennale, but Scotland and Wales are both putting on collateral shows

Published online: 03 May 2013

 

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Watercolours on a grand scale

Not all made today is “contemporary”, as can be seen in a major installation of watercolours by the artist Alexander Creswell. Depicting gorgeously crumbling facades of historic buildings, such as the church of San Sebastiano in Ferla, Sicily, the life-size works on paper in the show “Images on a >>>

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Video: Turner Prize nominee David Shrigley—a “verified” artist

David Shrigley, known for his comical cartoons, was one of four artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize. The Art Newspaper interviewed the artist at opening of his 2012 show at the Hayward Gallery in London, and he talked about how it feels to be accepted by the art world establishment.
 

The Armory Show at 100, from Friday, 11 October in New York

It is one of the most notorious cultural events of the 20th century, marking the dawn of America’s love affair with Modernism. And yet, as the Armory Show reaches its centenary, the full picture of that event has rarely been painted. Over the century since Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase,...