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Wednesday 8 Feb 12
Art and copyright: what’s at stake
Museums and the recession: there is an alternative to closure or selling off the collections—sharing
One-offs, but reassuring signs to the market—especially to Paris?
Can the law protect works of art and what exactly does it protect? (Archive)
Sharjah Biennial: open invitation to artists leads to focused and evocative show
In memoriam (Archive)
Lamya Gargash in Venice’s first UAE pavilion (Archive)
Vilnius’s programme cut down by a third (Archive)
Troubles deepen for museums: layoffs, budget cuts and cancelled shows
Quality up but sales patchy at Art Dubai’s third edition
Corrections (Archive)
Ragnar Kjartansson to represent Iceland (Archive)
The Venice Biennale to get two shots of art from the UAE
Much ado about something: the mystery of Shakespeare’s hair (Archive)
Reina Sofía and Prado strike historic loan deal
comings and goings (Archive)
Open invitation to artists leads to focused and evocative show (Archive)
Austria’s showcase city faces up to its Nazi past (Archive)
Marion True trial: Rizzo ends prosecution testimony (Archive)
Charities speak out against Obama tax plan (Archive)
Downturn hits art investment funds
Major Bruce Nauman show across three venues (Archive)
Hitler’s grand plans (Archive)
Argentina refuses to loan works to Germany (Archive)
Taiwan and China in cultural exchange (Archive)
Rare cuneiform cylinder off to Iran (Archive)
DZ Bank unveils new photography space (Archive)
First contemporary art museum for the Algarve (Archive)
Van Dyck: spot the difference (Archive)
Japanese treasures draw astounding crowds in Nara and Tokyo (Archive)
Denver’s two contemporary art institutions have merged operations (Archive)
National Gallery: new hope (Archive)
Korean minister to head museum (Archive)
Sicily embraces contemporary art (Archive)
After 20 years of planning, the Neues Museum reopens (Archive)
Liège’s mega-museum (Archive)
Wales’s impressionist fundraising tour (Archive)
Gardner Museum gets green light for expansion (Archive)
Tretyakov fights demolition plan (Archive)
Gehry’s leaky panes (Archive)
Battle over Joseph Beuys collection at Moyland Castle (Archive)
Japanese treasures draw astounding crowds in Nara and Tokyo
Restoration project under budget, but director fears tough financial times (Archive)
Navarran government steps in to save art centre (Archive)
Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery reopens (Archive)
Détente between museum directors and National Academy (Archive)
Pinchuk stages Hirst show (Archive)
Rockefeller rooms find homes (Archive)
Conference aims to shed light on looted Russian art (Archive)
Prado to open a further major extension (Archive)
Fresh dispute ignites over Nefertiti bust (Archive)
Water theme declared for Libeskind’s museum (Archive)
New chief curator for Whitechapel (Archive)
Disputed Yves Saint Laurent bronzes (Archive)
Arco fair reviews gallery numbers (Archive)
Young galleries get a Showcase (Archive)
Urban feels the squeeze (Archive)
Artist removes rib, makes it into a necklace, for “fun” (Archive)
Pompidou’s new de Chirico (Archive)
Yvon Lambert retreats from London (Archive)
Design is worth the climb (Archive)
Cohen buys into Sotheby’s (Archive)
Meanwhile, Sotheby’s Gianni Versace sale almost triples its upper estimate (Archive)
In the Trade (Archive)
Poussin painting rejected (Archive)
Armory: sales down but confidence high (Archive)
Nuns sue art dealer for $1.75m (Archive)
Big name brings out the big spenders (Archive)
New commercial venture aims to drive up art prices (Archive)
Old masters and antiquities attract the money in Maastricht (Archive)
Looted Hare comes out of the woods (Archive)
Steady start for Kinetica (Archive)
Success for “failed” artist (Archive)
Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour put their contemporary art collection on show
BBC launches “big, bold content” with “Baroque!” (Archive)
Engineers, artists and outsiders (Archive)
Newsprint magnate puts his contemporary art on show (Archive)
Inside the artist’s studio: Tom Burr (Archive)
How grandma’s crochet inspired my artistic vision (Archive)
Roman statue revived by Hollywood techniques (Archive)
Indonesian minister of culture’s public apology for destruction of archaeological site
Pioneering UK conservation course in jeopardy… (Archive)
Munch: a tough job, but somebody had to do it (Archive)
Pottery plates and pots in a class of their own (Archive)
Fin de siècle Florence… (Archive)
Me and Marc Chagall (Archive)
The Arabs got there first (Archive)
The art of animals and sport (Archive)
Geoff: you’re tone deaf (Archive)
Bologna as the 17th-century artistic epicentre (Archive)
The art of war: French culture under the Nazis (Archive)
Altars and their alternatives (Archive)
Picasso: playwright and poet (Archive)
