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Wednesday 8 Feb 12
John Updike n By Sebastian Smee (Archive)
The Recovery and Reinvestment Act will help the arts, but more is still needed
The recession and US museums n By Adrian Ellis (Archive)
The arts and economic stimulus n By Robert Lynch (Archive)
In memoriam (Archive)
How Guernica nearly came back to Whitechapel (Archive)
Curator targets new talent (Archive)
In the frame (Archive)
Bilotti collection heads for Sicily (Archive)
UN art collection to go on show in $150m “disposable” building
Farhad Farjam opens private museum in Dubai (Archive)
Further documents link key defendants (Archive)
Drive to finish Hagia Sophia for 2010 (Archive)
No Vatican Pavilion for Venice this year (Archive)
World record Islamic sale is cancelled (Archive)
Arts do better than feared in bailout (Archive)
Jeff Koons’s $25 million sculpture for Lacma
comings and goings (Archive)
“People don’t come to Sharjah to see something that they’ve already seen in Venice” (Archive)
UN art collection to go on show in $150m “disposable” building Travel and insurance costs of the 270 works discouraged off-site storage (Archive)
Obama signs Recovery and Reinvestment Act with reinstated support for the arts
Jeff Koons’s $25 million sculpture for museum (Archive)
Spain links up with Africa for next Manifesta (Archive)
Francesca von Habsburg’s collection goes on long-term loan to Iceland (Archive)
Canadian government sets budget for the arts (Archive)
Images of Athens riots taken down (Archive)
Bronze at British Museum may be loot (Archive)
New Museum’s triennial (Archive)
Wax and wane: Gilbert dummy in V&A store (Archive)
Lady Foster opens gallery and bookshop in Madrid (Archive)
National Trust needs £2m for Kenyan poet’s house (Archive)
Correction (Archive)
Fundraising challenges for Ashmolean (Archive)
Battle to save Joseph Beuys wallcovering at Landesmuseum (Archive)
Rockwell to open illustration research centre (Archive)
Grant to improve Danish museum managers (Archive)
New LA MoCA chief wields the axe (Archive)
Denmark’s national gallery is missing over 40 works (Archive)
Arts Council pulls plug on gallery at The Public (Archive)
Louvre to show Iranian artefacts in 2013 (Archive)
Zoffany at Tate cancelled (Archive)
Dresden State Art Collections to expand (Archive)
Major ceramics donation to the Metropolitan (Archive)
New art centre for Bucharest (Archive)
New Peruvian archaeological museum (Archive)
Furniture for free at new Herning arts centre (Archive)
President Sarkozy’s pledges to the arts (Archive)
Niemeyer Centre may include new port (Archive)
Landmark decision on Nazi duress sale (Archive)
Fundraising challenges for Ashmolean
Feuerbach to be restituted to UK from Vienna (Archive)
Brandeis’s Rose Museum to become educational facility (Archive)
Japanese fund Bulgarian museum (Archive)
Oldest star chart gets even older (Archive)
Zero budget exhibition (Archive)
France and Singapore to share collections (Archive)
Conflict over reopening of Baghdad Museum (Archive)
Kunsthalle Bremen’s works move to temporary homes (Archive)
Niemeyer Centre in Avilés may include new port
Hartleys gift from Alex Katz Foundation (Archive)
New director appointed at Oslo’s National Museum (Archive)
Terrorism show falls victim to Rose closing (Archive)
Boston sends important Gauguin to Japan (Archive)
Next step for Apsley House: a three-person committee (Archive)
Bonnard museum to open in his home town (Archive)
A market pulls back from the brink (Archive)
Record for Degas sculpture in conservative London auctions (Archive)
Blow for US museums (Archive)
Mixed emotions at Bologna’s Art First (Archive)
Berlin’s foreign galleries go into exile (Archive)
Old masters survive test (Archive)
Francis Bacon, Man in Blue VI, 1954 (est £4m-£6m), unsold (Archive)
Chelsea galleries visit Havana (Archive)
For Sir John, parting is such sweet sorrow (Archive)
Cash-strapped dealers opt to skip Armory (Archive)
Private collectors active (Archive)
Arbus goes to Timothy Taylor (Archive)
Lincoln victory speech sets auction record (Archive)
Dan Colen, Untitled (Going, Going, Go…), 2005 (est £25,000-£35,000), sold for £92,400 (Archive)
Sotheby’s buys back its US head office (Archive)
Mid-market pictures in demand (Archive)
sound bites (Archive)
New York auctions and fairs struggle (Archive)
In the trade (Archive)
Chelsea galleries visit Havana
St Sebastian bound for the Escorial (Archive)
Fashion and celebrity collection tops $8.6m in New York (Archive)
Threat to Minton archive (Archive)
Antiques offer security in Brussels (Archive)
Financial crisis scuppers Moscow fair (Archive)
Palm Beach bucks the trend (Archive)
“There is still a lot of money out there and the art market is still far away from crisis” (Archive)
Schnabel pyjamas on eBay (Archive)
De Montebello’s musings (Archive)
Patti Smith: “I look at Jeff Koons’s stuff and I’m appalled”
Downing Street artists’ bash (Archive)
Inside the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (Archive)
Downing Street artists’ bash (Archive)
Artists on film in Montreal (Archive)
While others retrench, the Whitechapel Gallery expands its building, its programmes and its staff (Archive)
"I look at Jeff Koons’s stuff and I’m appalled” (Archive)
Inside the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea
The collection bought at bargain prices (Archive)
Victorian painting as reportage (Archive)
Ancient monuments at risk (Archive)
Greek panels in Vienna restored to former glory
Discovery and Display (Archive)
Twenty-third IIC Congress in Istanbul in 2010 (Archive)
Turkish complaint (Archive)
Italy to restore ancient wall paintings (Archive)
Greek panels restored to former glory (Archive)
How to make a picture out of a thousand words (Archive)
Deluxe miniatures for the pioneering patron of Burgundy (Archive)
Victorian advice on politically correct furniture (Archive)
Australian art—a revisionist history (Archive)
More than just the biography of a building (Archive)
A crusading saint’s right royal prayer book (Archive)
