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Saturday 21 Nov 09
Gregor Schneider: death as a work of art
A critical eye on the contradictory extremes of the modern world
Artist killed on “peace pilgrimage”
Hans Haacke wins fight with City of Munich
Why I donated Chequers to the nation
Democrats spend $200,000 on political art
Revealed: Royal family of Qatar is buyer of world’s most expensive Hirst
Vandal fined $17,000 and banned for breaking ear off ancient statue
Westminster council rejects gift of £2.5m Caro sculpture
Alter ego to be laid to rest to mark end of “troubles”
MoMA exhibit dies five weeks into show
Obelisk looted by Mussolini to be re-erected after 70 years
Terror campaign by animal rights groups forces closure of exhibition
Corrections and clarifications
Contemporary art “to connect” to China
Curator resigns over sculpture commission
Korean museum sues Yale over fake curator
Fraud charges at Guggenheim Bilbao
Gordon Brown approves first public display of art from Chequers
Gursky in talks to photograph opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics
Pontus Hultén “jukebox” at Moderna Muse
Bank of America sends its art on tour
Gazprom to fund new home for ice maiden
Austrian culture minister calls for investigation into Leopold collection
V&A needs £1.1m to keep Baroque cabinet in the UK
German gallery trys to block sale of works by Joseph Beuys
You can buy it, but you can’t have it
Victims of terrorist attack in Israel can proceed with claim for US antiquities
France’s big splash vs Britain’s slow infiltration
Patron of new gallery is owner of star Cartier item
Abu Dhabi Guggenheim will have “potentially unlimited” budget
New display for self-portrait collection started by Medici
Retired clerk and librarian distribute 2,500 works
Poland gets its first contemporary collection
Renzo Piano extension for Isabella Stewart Gardner
Buren threatens to remove art in protest at mayor
Rem Koolhaas to design new Prada museum of contemporary art
D’Orsay director’s 19th-century club
Gallery director protests at forced loan to Tokyo of Titian Venus
Sculptures for National Gallery of Art
Russian architect beats star names in Perm
Copyright, conflicts of interest, and how to deal with Uncle Sam
Maritime Museum donor is one of world’s biggest impressionist buyers
Armory sales solid as New York defies financial markets
Stolen mosque artefacts returned to Turkey
Dutch collection gets off to a solid start
Russian 19th-century art saves the day
Indian gallery chooses Berlin for first outlet in Europe
Eastman heirs battle over trust
Art Cologne improves despite lack of director
Trade ambivalent about dealer’s exhibition
Government offers incentives in bid to revive market
Moscow fair invites auction houses
Qatar’s relentless drive to build museum collection sustains Islamic market
Christie’s grabs lion’s share of market...
Deutsche Bank sponsors Frieze—for one year
Estella Collection pushes Chinese contemporary total to US$51.7m
Gladstone chooses Brussels for European gallery
Dutch collection gets off to a solid start
Sonnabend estate sold for $600m
Another Korean gallery for Chelsea
Restituted Dutch old master makes record $8.1m
British decorative art auction proves risky
Phillips opens new office in Germany headed by former Art Cologne director
Phillips has disappointing results but market continues to climb
One of earliest collections of impressionists to be sold at Christie’s
I would recommend dramatically increasing the number of national pavilions
Around the world with hardly time to draw breath
Damien Hirst goes to Royal family of Qatar
Martin Creed’s test run at Tate Britain
Lindemann’s Koons goes to Ukraine
Fifty years old and still committed to new art
Twenty-six years to put the curtains up
Saatchi’s Doig goes to Georgia
“Every society has its taboos”
A shame she didn’t design this film
The recipe for a record price: auction house hype, media frenzy, and billionaire buyers
Rags to riches, fame to obscurity. And back again
How to create a lasting—and fitting—memorial
Six wives…and 2,500 tapestries—the extraordinary collection of Henry VIII
The man who turned everything into art
Portrait of a portraitist—the life of Yousuf Karsh
Monumental masonry—an alternative history
Sinuous nudes and protestant propaganda
An ambassador’s life through the keyhole
