News

Italians in Qatar (Archive)

comings and goings (Archive)

Swiss artist touches a nerve in Iceland

Serb leader accused of systematic destruction of historic buildings (Archive)

Pre-Raphaelite collection saved for public display

Who will sell Yves Saint Laurent’s collection? (Archive)

In memoriam (Archive)

The glittering prizes (Archive)

Revealed: one third of Brooklyn Museum’s Coptic collection is fake

New law proposed in response to exhibition

Daniel Libeskind in war of words with Berlusconi (Archive)

Agreement nears on running of Apsley House

International mission finds NO evidence of looting at archaeological sites in southern Iraq (Archive)

US lawsuit to confiscate Schiele's Portrait of Wally suspended

Archaeological sites in south Iraq have not been looted, say experts

Museums

Nazi-loot claimants countersue US museums (Archive)

New Islamic museum in Sharjah (Archive)

Magritte gets his own museum (Archive)

Galleries join forces to buy portrait of cotton king

Is the Barnes row finally over? (Archive)

Isozaki recreates traditional viewing conditions in Japan (Archive)

Louvre cancels loan show to Verona (Archive)

New cultural district for Oslo

Final chance to save Rubens’ Whitehall sketch (Archive)

Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down (Archive)

British scholar appointed director of Qatari museum

New guidelines for US museums acquiring antiquities

Guggenheim Bilbao director admits to E4.2m loss

Royal Academy proceeds with plan to rent out building to Christie’s gallery (Archive)

Mimi Gates to retire from Seattle Art Museum (Archive)

Parthenon frieze will be recreated in New Acropolis museum

Another private collector opens his own gallery (Archive)

Market

The Bacon and Freud effect (Archive)

Police return photographs seized from gallery

Crisis, what crisis? (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Huge crowds at Latin American fair, despite regional emphasis (or perhaps because of it) (Archive)

Abramovich beaten to waterlilies? (Archive)

Roman Abramovich keeps spirits high at Art Basel (Archive)

Wanted: buyer for Hitler’s statue

Photography and wine added to traditional mix at Grosvenor House (Archive)

Bonhams buys Melbourne competitor (Archive)

Back to basics (Archive)

Carpet goes through the ceiling (Archive)

How to snare a billionaire at a fair (Archive)

Competition for São Paulo Biennial (Archive)

Kahlo photographs on offer after long museum tour

Mixed results for Basel’s satellite fairs (Archive)

It is a Rembrandt but not a self-portrait

Where did all the visitors go? (Archive)

Dealer resigns (Archive)

Aboriginal paintings dispute settled (Archive)

Virginia college sells Tamayo Troubadour for $7.2m (Archive)

No buyers for top lots at Russian sales (Archive)

Bourgeois hits high for female artist (Archive)

Three new fairs for Europe (Archive)

Munch prices “driven up by thefts”

Bollywood star sets record with £1.3m Souza purchase (Archive)

Sound Bites (Archive)

CoBrA anniversary sale makes €2.3m (Archive)

Icon high at Christie’s (Archive)

Saleroom has a problem with a house

Features

Billionaires binge on best of British (Archive)

Telecoms millionaire, restaurateur, hotelier, reality TV producer, gallery owner and collector (Archive)

A museum inspired by Dia:Beacon (Archive)

“I always insist that the artist must be given carte blanche”

Developer to open exhibition space and art hotel (Archive)

Lives of the rich and famous (Archive)

Art in Beijing has fallen prey to the market (Archive)

“My dream is to acquire a Nurse painting by Richard Prince”

Andy Warhol’s $28m “Athletes” in Chinese capital for the Games (Archive)

The boat that Koons “camouflaged” with art (Archive)

“This is the coming of age show for the National Museum of China” (Archive)

Schnabel’s love letter to Lou Reed (Archive)

Child’s play: the 65-ft skyscraper made from a toy set

Another month, another slew of galleries (Archive)

Picking over Salander’s remains (Archive)

Meet China’s top collector of contemporary art

City locks down in run up to Olympics (Archive)

“I am not trying to illustrate my personal experience”

“Big galleries such as ours, will help by setting standards”

Books

Fragments of paintings from a grain clerk’s memorial bring his world to life (Archive)

The rediscovery of a neglected English visionary (Archive)

A giant step towards a better definition of Romanesque (Archive)

An admirable monograph on Giovanni Bellini (as long as you ignore the typos…) (Archive)

Heat, dust and lust in the landscape (Archive)

Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women (Archive)

Too much information, too little self-restraint in this account of the Sistine Chapel (Archive)

England is strange, when you’re a stranger (Archive)

Chinese outside China (Archive)

Immortality, Roman style

What ever happened to Dora Gordine? (Archive)

A vital subject, yet so poorly displayed (Archive)

In praise of folly (Archive)

front cover of issue 193

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