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Sanford Biggers: The Cartographer's Conundrum at Mass MoCA

Sanford Biggers’s futuristic vision at Mass MoCA

The ambitious installations of the Los Angeles-born, New York-based artist Sanford Biggers, whose two recent exhibitions in New York City incorporated sculpture, video, photography, music and photographs, have reached an unprecedented height at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass... >>>

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Published online 6 Feb 12 (Museums)

Ten years of free entry, but can it last?

Why the political gain in the United Kingdom outweighs the economic cost >>>

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From issue 232, February 2012.
Published online 1 Feb 12 (Museums)

Icom drops Turkish committee

An independent body is due to take its place >>>

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Published online 31 Jan 12 (Museums)

Progress on the Uffizi expansion, at last

Eight new rooms house paintings by French, Dutch, Flemish and Spanish artists >>>

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Published online 25 Jan 12 (Museums)

Spanish savings bank’s art collection “transferred” to Alicante museum

But works including pieces by Tapiès and Barceló will stay in the city >>>

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Published online 25 Jan 12 (Museums)

International programme slashed

Government stops funds, focus shifts away from Africa >>>

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From issue 231, January 2012.
Published online 11 Jan 12 (Museums)

On shaky ground?

New €4m project to safeguard Italy's museums from earthquakes >>>

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Published online 4 Jan 12 (Museums)

BP to give £10m to four UK arts institutions

As protests against the energy company’s arts sponsorship grow, museums and the minister of culture support BP's latest funding >>>

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Published online 19 Dec 11 (Museums)

Berlin’s 20th-century art to gain space of its own

The director of the Nationalgalerie, Udo Kittelmann, gets the green light to rehang Gemäldegalerie with modern masters >>>

From issue 230, December 2011.
Published online 14 Dec 11 (Museums)

Charging to see the stars

Visitor numbers plummet at the Royal Observatory >>>

From issue 232, February 2012.
Published online 1 Feb 12 (Museums)

Why the Kunsthistorisches Museum can’t afford to abolish entrance fees

WITH OVER 1. 1 million annual visitors we raise between €6m and €7m from entrance fees or around 19% of the total budget >>>

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Published online 1 Feb 12 (Museums)

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Swiss museum settles Malevich claim

Most works to remain at the Kunstmuseum Basel, while one gouache is transferred to the artist’s heirs >>>

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Published online 26 Jan 12 (Museums)

Hermitage director turns down seat in Russian parliament

Piotrovsky says he must focus on 250th anniversary of the museum >>>

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Published online 25 Jan 12 (Museums)

Church seeks return of cathedral

Stand-off over building that houses the “Hermitage of the Urals” >>>

From issue 231, January 2012.
Published online 12 Jan 12 (Museums)

There’s no gain without loss at the Gardner

Renzo Piano’s extension to the Isabella Stewart Gardner meant her carriage house had to go >>>

From issue 231, January 2012.
Published online 11 Jan 12 (Museums)

This is not a tax, says Boston’s mayor

Boston’s leading museums and charities face sharp rise in “voluntary” payments to city >>>

From issue 231, January 2012.
Published online 1 Jan 12 (Museums)

Disputed Munch at Leopold Museum

Leading expert has “severe doubts” about work lent to Vienna museum by Norwegian collector >>>

From issue 230, December 2011.
Published online 15 Dec 11 (Museums)

Treasury rules stop museums spending donors’ cash

Nationals reluctantly set up trusts to help gain access to their own reserves >>>

From issue 230, December 2011.
Published online 14 Dec 11 (Museums)

Hungarian national gallery director resigns in protest

Backlash in Budapest to proposed merger with Museum of Fine Arts >>>

From issue 230, December 2011.
Published online 7 Dec 11 (Museums)

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Visitors enjoy Tate Modern for free. Beyond is St Paul’s Cathedral, which costs £14.50 to visit

Ten years of free entry, but can it last?

Visitors to the Royal Observatory fell by more than half because of charging

Charging to see the stars

The Kunsthistorisches Museum's director general, Sabine Haag, says they simply cannot afford to go without entrance fees

Why the Kunsthistorisches Museum can’t afford to abolish entrance fees

The Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, which opened in 2011, is among the many new museums launched in Turkey

Icom drops Turkish committee

Malevich's Landscape with Red Houses was returned to the artist's heirs

Swiss museum settles Malevich claim

Interior of one of the rooms recently opened at the Nuovi Uffizi

Progress on the Uffizi expansion, at last

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