Caruso St John was chosen to design Gagosian Gallery’s Parisian space (above) and Blain Southern’s Hanover Square premises (below) Art Market

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Why the “white cube” formula has become universal for branded galleries (Caruso St John was chosen to design Gagosian Gallery’s Parisian space (above) and Blain Southern’s Hanover Square premises (below)) Published online: 19 June 2013
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Putin hands over contested books to Moscow’s Jewish Museum

The Russian president says he hopes the legal conflict over the collection will be resolved, but Brooklyn Chabad group disagrees

Published online: 19 June 2013

Spain to consider reduction on culture tax

Following comments from the president of Extremadura, the country’s culture minister says he is open to reviewing unusually high VAT rate

Published online: 19 June 2013

UK folk art to be celebrated at Tate Britain

Curators unearth unusual objects in museum storerooms

Published online: 18 June 2013

“Artists are seen as one step above criminals”

Paul McCarthy on his B-movie early ambitions, art schools, the pressure to move to New York and why he’ll never leave LA

Published online: 18 June 2013

Venice 1, tourist tat 0

Italy’s new culture minister, Massimo Bray, has won a small but symbolic victory with the removal of a cheap tourist shop below St Mark’s bell tower

Published online: 18 June 2013

Nicholas Serota joins Companions of Honour in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Other honourees include Grayson Perry, Anish Kapoor and Thomas Heatherwick

Published online: 17 June 2013

 

‘Orphaned’ Cézanne watercolour surfaces in Ottawa

Pressure could mount to identify the owner of a work separated from French dealer’s collection

Published online: 17 June 2013

Artists in the Marketplace opens with sculpture show on Governor’s Island

Programme aims to teach artists practical skills, such as grant writing and how to find gallery representation

Published online: 17 June 2013

Why some pictures go for more than others

All other things being equal, a grouse sells for more than a duck, roses beat lupins and everyone loves a pretty woman

Published online: 14 June 2013

Flavins will see the light of day

Artist’s estate lifts ban on the posthumous production of unrealised fluorescent light sculptures

Published online: 06 June 2013

 

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Paul's enchanted forest fills Park Avenue Armory

A dazed troop of journalists filed out of the Park Avenue Armory this morning after the press opening of Paul McCarthy’s graphic installation WS, which he produced in collaboration with his son Damon McCarthy The "mother of all gesamtkunstwerk", as it was described by the Armory’s >>>

Out with the thematic at Tate, in with the chronological

Director says of revised British art display: "It follows real time rather than art-historical time"

 

Vermeer and Music: Love and Leisure in the Dutch Golden Age, from Wednesday, 26 June in London

Vermeer is perceived as a painter of silence, of women in still interiors. But he is also an artist of music, with ladies playing for their own pleasure— and ours. “Vermeer captures both quietness and sound. Perhaps he is painting the silence between sounds, asking us to reflect on that,” says...