News
Over 150 sites of cultural and historic significance have been severly damaged
New import and export rules are designed to control political portrayals
Research reveals Isabella II knowingly gave a fake painting to Pius IX
Web hoaxers target “violent” exhibition
Trial, with implications for works of art depicting ill-treatment of animals, is being debated at the highest level
Did museum director know Schiele work was stolen when it was sent to New York?
With a host of new prizes, curators attack their validity
Although open to everyone, it is not as comprehensive as private registers
It may have entered Britain illegally
It may have entered Britain illegally
Controversy over cancelled award and management of museum
He is creating video and photographic works to document the conflict
Antony Gormley and Ned Kahn create huge installations
Third time lucky as new curator and change of venue wins plaudits for event focused on Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Centre
Exhibition highlights the architectural importance of the definitive company town
Market
Visitor numbers down 10%, but lower-level sales still steady
15 drop-outs but 21 newcomers for the fine art and antiques event
Despite loss of 60 galleries, fair returns with redesigned space and more dealers
Collectors look for safe havens in tried and tested work
Matthiesen’s devotional show
Rembrandt, Domenichino, Raphael and Van Dyck all on offer, but how many will remain in the UK?
Houses keep their heads above water with wider international selection
Avid buyer Sheikh Saud Al-Thani also makes a rare saleroom appearance at Sotheby’s
Sale of Robyn Symes’s stock makes over £500,000
Contemporary looks respectable but consignors still cautious
“Irrational exuberance” may be gone but market holds up
Modern masters section keeps the Parisian showcase on the up and up
Market tested at last month’s Phillips de Pury auction and Pavilion of Art and Design fair
Books
This scholarly volume of essays is an indispensable introduction to the country’s art, architecture and history
This scholarly volume of essays is an indispensable introduction to the country’s art, architecture and history
A study of Picasso’s imaginative oscillations between figural and still-life painting
An engineer rails against the pretensions of contemporary architects and their contempt for their critics
Winifred Nicholson, often dismissed as a lightweight, has her artistic reputation secured by this monograph
This book on Jacob Epstein provides interesting new material
Two books provide an opportunity to reassess James Ensor
Infuriating and tormented though he was, the Romantic artist, and his work, deserve reconsideration
How images of the Roman Procurator, who caused Christ to be crucified, changed around the tenth century
The place of draughtsmanship in illuminations and other media
The Caetani garden at Ninfa and late 19th-century Anglo-American gardens in Florence
A book on paintings and drawings by tattooists focuses on the skill of the work instead of the application
The revised catalogue of the paintings in Apsley House
Comment
Private collection shows are an insult to scholarship and curators
Museum growth has to be made sustainable
This self-congratulatory art prize sends out all the wrong messages
This self-congratulatory art prize sends out all the wrong messages
Conservation
Cleaning shows that Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks is nearly all by the artist’s hand
New roof needed for Shakespeare church
Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection
… stimulates preservation efforts
Artists such as Kara Walker to introduce newly restored works by Kubrick and others
Archaeologists find a series of 1,700-year old footprints beneath mosaic
Features
As auction revenues plummet, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are moving increasing resources away from their traditional businesses
The curator of an exhibition which includes over 700 of the film-maker’s drawings, paintings, graphic works and photographs, believes Burton will come to be seen as one of the most influential artists of our time
Gérard Mortier believes artists can transform the way we experience opera—just don’t ask them to design a set for Puccini
Gabriel Orozco says his work is about “space and time, action and philosophy”; here he talks about his upcoming travelling retrospective and the part he has played in developing the Mexican art world
Several artists who had disappeared from view are now back with a vengeance
McLean’s got plans for politicians, too…
So says critic Matthew Collings in a new film that attempts to pin down the essence of the beautiful in art
Museums
The Basque museum plans to open a second outpost
Exhibition raises a potential conflict-of-interest between private collectors and public institutions
Richard Koshalek, the new director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, brings in the architects to transform the bunker-like art museum into a centre of debate. But what will they think on Capitol Hill?
Museum disputes heirs’ claim for three works by German painter George Grosz
East meets west in the University of Oxford’s new-look museum of art and archaeology
Bailout and budget cut for museum of big art with low visitor figures
Museum Island’s missing link finally reopens, with battle scars on show
Museum revamp funded by international tour of impressionist works
Irina Lebedeva, the new director of Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery, on Russians’ negative attitude to new art
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