Opinion

The issues involved in using works of art to secure loans

Does Berlin really need a permanent Kunsthalle? (Archive)

Does Berlin really need a permanent Kunsthalle?

Clarifying Cobbe (Archive)

No more confidence in the Art Fund (Archive)

Iceland stuck between a rock and hard place

Facebook is more than a fad—and museums need to learn from it

The issues involved in using works of art to secure loans (Archive)

News

Eton loans antiquities to universities (Archive)

Viking hoard for British Museum? (Archive)

Defence of former Getty curator begins after four years (Archive)

In the frame (Archive)

Culture centre doubles as mosque (Archive)

Silvio Berlusconi’s covenant with the building industry (Archive)

Portraits of leading Muslims (and President Obama) for Prince Charles (Archive)

Nicolas Berggruen to open private Berlin museum

Sculpture for hire at Cass (Archive)

Return of the Berlin Wall kiss (Archive)

Venice council in row over Coca-Cola deal (Archive)

How the Mona Lisa almost came to a watery end (Archive)

comings and goings (Archive)

Nicolas Berggruen to open private museum (Archive)

Claes Oldenburg’s final installation with his wife (Archive)

Havana Biennial opens as relations with US thaw (Archive)

Land art may be safe from nuclear waste project (Archive)

“Il Tempo del Postino” takes to stage at Art Basel (Archive)

An early survey of damage in Abruzzo (Archive)

“Il Tempo del Postino” takes to stage at Art Basel

Has communist netted second Nazi painting? (Archive)

Pinault’s electric chair Christ upsets the French; black version to be shown in London (Archive)

Abruzzo earthquake wrecks 100s of churches (Archive)

How the Mona Lisa almost came to a watery end

Bucharest Biennale gets 22-year-old curator (Archive)

Award for The Art Newspaper TV (Archive)

Horelli invited back to Venice after 2005 dispute (Archive)

In memoriam (Archive)

Corrections (Archive)

Museums

Tate Modern extension snubbed by Lottery Fund (Archive)

Yale fights to hang on to Van Gogh work (Archive)

Alexandra Exter fakes? (Archive)

America turns its gaze inwards (Archive)

Will Rome’s Maxxi museum ever open? (Archive)

V&A proposes underground galleries (Archive)

UK museums profit from recession

How to find your way through the legal maze (Archive)

Russian art in Cologne (Archive)

UK venues profit from recession (Archive)

Moore show under threat (Archive)

A one-stop guide to negotiating the legal minefield (Archive)

Private museum reopens (Archive)

Musée de l’Homme under fire (Archive)

International cultural property: how to find your way through the legal maze

Market

Antique sales “down 30%” (Archive)

Madoff associate in court (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Sponsors withdraw (Archive)

“We’ve done the gritty urban space, you can’t stay underground forever”

Low prices promoted contemporary art (Archive)

Paris feels a partial pinch (Archive)

Art as collateral (Archive)

“We’ve done the gritty urban space, you can’t stay underground forever” (Archive)

Local tastes support strong sales (Archive)

No bubble, no crash (Archive)

South Africa favours contemporary works (Archive)

Secrecy over YSL “looted heads” (Archive)

Vilnius gets first art fair

Two thirds fewer Russian billionaires (Archive)

Sotheby’s scales down (Archive)

Mixed fortunes as decorative arts fair gets new owners (Archive)

Salander charged with multiple fraud (Archive)

Vilnius gets first fair (Archive)

Gallery raid sparks panic over fakes (Archive)

Mixed results at first of kind (Archive)

Features

Who said it was all about modernism? (Archive)

The Last Supper: the ultimate performance (Archive)

“The bleakness and the beauty” of art publishing today (Archive)

Dealers predict feelgood effect from the Modern Wing (Archive)

Art Institute prepares to open massive new extension (Archive)

After a long, dry spell, Chicago is regaining some of its architectural lustre (Archive)

With newspapers in terminal decline, what future for arts journalism? (Archive)

Can today’s patrons live up to those of the past? (Archive)

Portraits of the artist as surgically-enhanced society matrons (Archive)

Tough times lead to backroom deals (Archive)

Art Institute of Chicago’s massive extension opens

Renzo Piano on building in the home of American modernist architecture (Archive)

High anxiety: what’s happening with the skyscraper in the city that invented it? (Archive)

Sixty years of art from Thames & Hudson (Archive)

John Bryan: maintaining the tradition (Archive)

Japan, through the eyes of a French banker (Archive)

It’s not quite Picasso, but plastic surgery is art (Archive)

“Now we’re able to show the hot and the cool” (Archive)

With newspapers in terminal decline, what future for arts journalism?

Architects on display (Archive)

The story so far: from Nazi Berlin and Vienna to London and then the world (Archive)

To stay or not to stay: the creative dilemma (Archive)

When Dalí and Lorca were lovers—perhaps (Archive)

The same…but different (Archive)

Conservation

Israel’s holiest site undergoes restoration (Archive)

Iconic Scheffer painting sees the light of day (Archive)

Persian love poem inscribed on unearthed jug (Archive)

Peruvian museum preserves the privacy of its most famous exhibit (Archive)

Thieves damage ancient Roman reliefs (Archive)

Israel’s holiest site undergoes restoration (Archive)

Japanese castle restoration on public view (Archive)

Books

Truth behind the looting of the Iraq Museum (Archive)

What made the Virgin humble? (Archive)

Is it in the genes? (Archive)

How the Gardner heist became a hive of speculation (Archive)

Christ’s mother as go-between (Archive)

The dealer didn’t do it (Archive)

The afterlife of precious things (Archive)

Not just little adults (Archive)

Magical mystery museum (Archive)

Dante in two dimensions (Archive)