News
Letter leaked to left-wing French newspaper reveals not all has been well between emirati and French authorities
Federal raid on the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York and a new book by a Brazilian judge point to a "big problem"
Fine works of Islamic art are at the centre of a dispute with his former business partner
Figures submitted for government scrutiny expose irregularities; former head defends actions
Crossrail goes direct to commercial sector
Critics say art was meant for students and the public
Frank Cohen and Danish adviser Nicolai Frahm launch a London gallery
The missive to Hernán Cortés had been missing for more than a century
Art and infrastructure come together as a construction boom helps to fuel new commissions
Curator’s interviews with performers could prove a “goldmine” for scholars, skirting the artist’s ban on documentation of his work
Art Market
Jay Jopling started his gallery in 1993. Two decades later, he’s no less secretive but a whole lot richer
Uncertainty over whether the work, once owned by Goering, was looted means that auction houses don't want to put it on the block
Another 20-year landmark, now in print
When Steve Wynn put his elbow through a Picasso in 2006, his face probably turned red. Now he has nearly 200 million reasons to smile
The SP-Arte fair is cementing its place on the international circuit
Founder of Tiroche DeLeon collection says increased openness will attract wider interest
Catalogue illustration dispute reveals inadequacy of country’s copyright laws
Older artists are back in fashion—have the young reached saturation point?
A scheduling clash and an unfriendly tax environment slowed business at most fairs
The days when Sotheby’s had the season to itself are long gone as the Chinese auctioneers fight for a share of a limited inventory
The fair keeps the flavour of its predecessor, ArtHK, but the galleries have changed
Books
Subjectivity, unreconciled dialectics and relativism mark all the works by the art historians surveyed in this volume
All of the University’s illuminated manuscripts are being published
A close examination of the impact of the work of Joseph Effner
Uvedale Price and James Wyatt compared and contrasted in two very different books
What paintings tell us about clothing and style in 19th-century Paris
Prokudin-Gorskii’s forgotten pictures of the last years of the Russian Empire see the light of day
Keith Vaughan is, at long last, receiving serious critical attention
Comment
This month, Tate Britain will unveil a new layout, which includes comprehensively restored galleries for the national collection of British art
Britain’s former prime minister may have had little interest in culture, but Thatcherism meant its great museums changed for the better
MoMA could adapt the former home of the American Folk Art Museum rather than demolish it to expand
Conservation
Purpose-built museum opens, showing ship’s hull and recovered artefacts—from anchors to nit combs
Museum of Fine Arts reinstalls an 18th-century English drawing room
Conference urges conservators to raise their profile and accept unpaid help
Historic home of the bishops of Durham is restored, hopes to draw tourists with its exotic collection of Zurbaráns
Museum’s investigation reconstructs Van Gogh’s original—and dramatically different—palette
Features
A touring exhibition recreates the CIA’s 1946 secret weapon that scandalised conservatives. By Lauren Ross
Famous for his cute Manga imagery, Takashi Murakami has joined forces with the Japanese cult zombie film-maker to create a monster movie drenched in the post-tsunami world of religious cults, mad science and the supernatural.
Focus
China builds more institutions, but can the infrastructure keep pace?
The director of the National Palace Museum on expansion, improvement and collaboration with the mainland
The Global Heritage Foundation launches project to preserve architectural and cultural traditions
A younger generation of artists is China’s most fortunate, but making a living is not that easy…
A classical artistic tradition is flourishing in 21st-century China – and abroad
A slowing GDP, crackdown on tax evaders and rising rents have burst the bubble. But what remains?
The new fair is due to take place in the same venue and at the same time as SH, but they are “not related”
Giuseppe Eskenazi has seen the market move from Europe to Japan to China over 50 years
Media
Questions over theatrical release for Peter Greenaway’s dizzying, dazzling—and sexually explicit—new film
Museums
Moscow museum backs architects after deputy culture minister calls for changes to Norman Foster’s scheme
The Ashmolean Museum’s director, Christopher Brown, is impressed by elegant contemporary interventions and colourful historic restoration
Architects sought to design museum quarter in Budapest, which will have five new national museums, including a national gallery
As the Tate and British Museum extensions reach their full height, institutions say business plans stack up
Museum strengthens ties with Qatar by showing pearls exhibition from Doha, despite ethical concerns
The Met’s Old Masters galleries reopen in rooms lost in the 1970s when the era of the blockbuster began
New York's American Folk Art Museum to be demolished, Boston museums close during search for marathon bombers, Lacma's new Latin American galleries, and more
Museum staff and leading lawyers meet in Chicago to debate the biggest issues of the day
Obituary
A patron saint manquée of Poland, who came to America with $200 and made a good marriage
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