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Wednesday 8 Feb 12
Putin names Russia’s new culture minister
German museum under fire for ceding control of exhibitions to dealers and collectors
Can past nuclear explosions help detect forgeries?
US Government compensates artist for painting over monumental mural
High-tech study could give new life to Moore’s Arch
Roman Abramovich brings home the $86.3m Bacon and the $33.6m Freud
Rauschenberg gallery to continue lawsuit after artist’s death
One mayor pledges to dismantle Richard Meier museum…
Vatican: “We want our own pavilion at next Venice Biennale”
Sheikh Saud Al-Thani of Qatar buys nearly all lots at Chinese art sale
…while the other may scrap fourth plinth
Man Ray trust criticised for travelling show
Meet the collector opening a James Turrell museum in the Andes
Film director to leave house and collection to nation
New arts centre has cost taxpayer £57m but there’s not much art (and no theatre)
Nazi bunker reborn as gallery in Berlin
Armenian cross on display for first time in US
Armouries chief under investigation
National museum looks for director abroad
What is going on at the Ullens Center in Beijing?
New Libeskind building for Jewish museum
Barnes Foundation wins ruling to move to city centre
Albertina gets Klees withdrawn from California
Senator proposes bill to keep Portrait Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
Renaissance portraiture in two different incarnations
Russian capital gets new gallery in Melnikov bus depot...
Israeli museums unite for anniversary exhibitions
Herzog & de Meuron to design new museum of modern art in Calcutta
Clark Art Institute opens new Ando building
Revealed: details of contract between Abu Dhabi and France
MFA Boston entrance reopens after nearly 30 years
Klimt will stay at Austrian National Gallery, says Supreme Court
Why the Guggenheim won’t open a branch in Guadalajara
Courtauld to show Cézanne it did not know it had
Ceausescu’s son wins restitution claim
National Gallery of Victoria says it has received largest cash donation in the nation’s history
Whitney unveils designs for new building
Dresden to spend 15m euro and employ 65 researchers on biggest provenance study ever undertaken
Metropolitan show pays tribute to outgoing director
National Gallery drops Renaissance painting, splitting it in two
Top museum directors discuss the challenges of leading institutions in the global era
Stedelijk returns five Malevich works to artist’s heirs
…and Mendelsohn factory in St Petersburg transformed
Whitney gets lion’s share of tobacco giant’s art…
Germany follows France to the Gulf…
Chicago sends its masterpieces to Texas to raise money for new wing
Mallett to offer contemporary design
“Aggressive competition” hits Sotheby’s profits
Is modern architecture the new art?
Speculator(s) flip contemporary Indian art sold by galleries last year
Mexican event cleans up its act
How much is Damien Hirst worth?
For sale: works seized by Stasi
Authentication committee refused to give an opinion on my Basquiat, says collector
The curious case of the looted portrait
Pinault sells shares in auction group
Manhattan dealers open in China
Norwegian dealer’s estate to benefit charity
Controversial Mandela lithographs are back on the market
An arousing display at the Met
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
What happened when Russia met Prussia
How current conflicts have transformed the west’s fascination with the “Orient”
Simple in Europe, complex in the USA
The apostolic succession of academic art
Why we can’t get enough of Velázquez
Breathing life into an old story: the Pygmalion myth through the ages
A scholarly study of Bernini’s first biographers
Antiquities as political dynamite
Sorry tales of devastation and waste, with little hope on the horizon
