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This year's Fifa includes films on: South African photographer Jurgen Schadeberg, the building of the new Rijksmuseum, and Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte

Artists and museums get the red carpet treatment

Montreal’s reputation as an underground city, with its labyrinthine connections between shopping centres, hotels, stations, museums and civic centres, is enhanced this month as it tries to convince citizens and visitors to spend even more time in artificially lit spaces—contemplating the entries to... >>>

From issue 211, March 2010.
Published online 17 Mar 10 (Features)

The link to Degas

Where did the purported plasters come from? >>>

From issue 211, March 2010.
Published online 9 Mar 10 (Features)

Art falls victim to football hooliganism

Egyptians cancel Algerian pavilion at Alexandria Biennale following violent protests >>>

From issue 210, February 2010.
Published online 27 Jan 10 (Features)

How the Victoria and Albert Museum dealt with the dying of Christianity

The redisplay of the museum's Medieval and Renaissance Galleries >>>

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From issue 208, December 2009.
Published online 16 Dec 09 (Features)

Remembering Nancy Spero

A former curator of the National Gallery of Canada and close friend of the artist looks back on her life and work >>>

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Published online 26 Oct 09 (Features)

Art insurers on high alert for fraudulent claims

When the economy goes into recession, cases of insurance fraud shoot up. Industry specialists for the art world say they are watching contemporary dealers particularly closely >>>

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Published online 1 Sep 09 (Features)

America is changing—but are its art museums?

Most major institutions are still run by white people, are supported by them, and tailor their exhibitions to suit them >>>

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From issue 204, July/August 2009.
Published online 12 Aug 09 (Features)

How to beat the recession: cut costs, slash prices, don't lie and be creative

Older and more experienced dealers offer their younger colleagues advice on how to weather the bad times >>>

From issue 204, July/August 2009.
Published online 29 Jul 09 (Features)

Taking the war in Iraq to the American people

A British conceptual artist, an Iraqi artist and a US soldier who served in Iraq travelled from New York to Los Angeles with the remains of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack in tow >>>

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Published online 17 Jun 09 (Features)

The silence of the Degas scholars

Some museums have lined up to authenticate “amazing” find of lifetime plaster casts, but the leading experts refuse to comment >>>

From issue 211, March 2010.
Published online 9 Mar 10 (Features)

Street art documentary or creative hoax?

Banksy's film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" keeps the viewer questioning his motives >>>

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Published online 3 Mar 10 (Features)

Will US museums succeed in reinventing themselves?

The recession is forcing North American institutions to reconsider every aspect of what they do >>>

From issue 209, January 2010.
Published online 11 Jan 10 (Features)

The artist as director

Sam Taylor-Wood takes a turn at conventional filmmaking with "Nowhere Boy" >>>

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Published online 3 Nov 09 (Features)

Why paintings succeed where words fail

Belgian artist Luc Tuymans talks to us on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the US >>>

From issue 205, September 2009.
Published online 9 Sep 09 (Features)

Don’t call her the bag lady

Miuccia Prada on conceptual fakes, Italy’s cultural backwardness and what she plans to do with her own arts centre >>>

From issue 204, July/August 2009.
Published online 18 Aug 09 (Features)

Jeff Koons on his Serpentine show, his inspirations and how his studio system works

The US artist reveals what he hopes to communicate to the public through his work >>>

From issue 204, July/August 2009.
Published online 5 Aug 09 (Features)

Exclusive interview with Bruce Nauman

The high-profile US artist gives a rare insight into the works on show at the award-winning US Pavilion in Venice >>>

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Published online 8 Jul 09 (Features)

Art Institute of Chicago’s massive extension opens

Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing will make it the second largest art museum in the US >>>

From issue 202, May 2009.
Published online 13 May 09 (Features)

David LaChapelle: “If I could choose any period to have been an artist, it would definitely be the Baroque”

The artist-photographer discusses his affinity with the dynamism, drama and spirituality of 17th-century art >>>

From issue 201, April 2009.
Published online 15 Apr 09 (Features)

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The plasters as found in situ at the Valsuani Foundry in France (Copyright The Degas Sculpture Project Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Olivier Brunet)

The silence of the Degas scholars

Left, a Hebrard cast from the master bronze, and a newly cast version from the Valsuani plaster (Copyright The Degas Sculpture Project Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Joseph Coscia, Jr)

The link to Degas

Banksy undercover: a still from Exit through The Gift Shop

Street art documentary or creative hoax?

Riot police stand guard during violent protests near the Algerian embassy in Cairo (Photo: Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images)

Art falls victim to football hooliganism

As museums struggle with financial difficulties and declining attendance, will we see a rise in populist shows such as the touring exhibition of costumes,
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Will US museums succeed in reinventing themselves?

Window with St John the Evangelist, the prophet Ezekiel and St James the Less, around 1393. Only 56% of the UK population can name even one of the evangelists

How the Victoria and Albert Museum dealt with the dying of Christianity

Aaron Johnson as John Lennon in Sam Taylor-Wood's

The artist as director

Nancy Spero in her studio (Photo by Abe Frajndlich, 2003)

Remembering Nancy Spero

Luc Tuymans (Photo: Grant Delin, courtesy David Zwirner, New York)

Why paintings succeed where words fail

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