Opinion

The New Museum responds

Saving the ephemeral art gallery (Archive)

In defence of awards (Archive)

Letters to the editor (Archive)

“The police came tromping into Tate Modern as nosy parkers” (Archive)

News

Wellcome Trust teams up with Mori, Tokyo (Archive)

Sixteenth-century book goes back to Germany (Archive)

Vatican moves to rebuild its relationship with the arts (Archive)

British Museum and Tate expand focus on Middle East

Hidden Kienholz re-emerges 38 years on (Archive)

East End sculpture prize (Archive)

In memoriam (Archive)

The man who hunts down art thieves (Archive)

Auction results show confidence returning (Archive)

Mystery of Vasari archive deepens (Archive)

Benevento Missal likely to return to Italy (Archive)

comings and goings (Archive)

Cambridge monument halted by Norway (Archive)

Nazi loot claim fails to stop Vermeer show (Archive)

The glittering prizes (Archive)

Prince of Liechtenstein threatens major Royal Academy show (Archive)

Record year for Venice Biennale

In The Frame (Archive)

Lichfield’s studio becomes art venue (Archive)

Corrections and clarifications (Archive)

Prince of Liechtenstein threatens major Royal Academy show

Buying fragments deplored (Archive)

Get in line: US museum visits on the increase (Archive)

Surprise exit for Palazzo Grassi head (Archive)

“I will never again accept a public commission in my home country” (Archive)

Museums

National Portrait Gallery’s Mandela acquisition (Archive)

Future Munch Museum director to wield more power (Archive)

Dia Art Foundation returns home to Chelsea (Archive)

Museum attendance rises as the economy tumbles

New look for Moscow’s folk art museum (Archive)

The picture that is just too great (Archive)

Acquisitions (Archive)

Free entry: Madrid show of Musée d’Orsay works (Archive)

Berlin’s restored schloss to rehouse museum of world art (Archive)

Chipperfield’s Sudan museum (Archive)

Lars Nittve to leave Moderna Museet (Archive)

ADMISSIONS FIGURES (Archive)

Russian Museum’s street paintings vandalised (Archive)

Nottingham’s big new art space (Archive)

Efforts continue to save historic home of Edith Wharton (Archive)

Wanted: Turin crime museum (Archive)

Berlin Kunsthalle on hold until at least 2012 (Archive)

“The Fisher collection has scarcely been seen by the public” (Archive)

Dia returns home to Chelsea

Moderna Museet Malmö (Archive)

V&A renaissance (Archive)

Pinchuk to build new arts centre in Ukraine (Archive)

Cornwall museum to sell two works (Archive)

The man the trustees obey (Archive)

Tour de France for Pompidou centre (Archive)

German museums fear brutal cuts as cultural budgets set to be slashed (Archive)

Bührle collection heads for Kunsthaus Zürich (Archive)

Museum attendance rises as the economy tumbles (Archive)

Navy hands over Alexander Palace (Archive)

Viking invasion (Archive)

Hermitage to guard column (Archive)

Louvre and Verona agree six-year partnership (Archive)

Musée Guimet gives carte blanche to artists (Archive)

Market

Eclectic mix at first Fine Art Beijing (Archive)

Insurers wary of covering fairs (Archive)

Paris Photo has “solid year” (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Botero still rules as Latin America beats expectations (Archive)

Second Saint Laurent sale shows interest unabated with E9m total (Archive)

The art that comes with preconditions (Archive)

Tokyo Contemporary fair keeps growing (Archive)

State buys silver hoard (Archive)

Modernism and Art20 fairs combine

Paris Photo has “solid year” (Archive)

“People are rightfully cautious and focused. I like that” (Archive)

Sotheby’s has the edge as prices settle (Archive)

Abu Dhabi Art proves a brave, new world for dealers (Archive)

Paris’s latest gallery quartier (Archive)

Latin America fair builds for the future (Archive)

Another Munch taken by thieves (Archive)

“It is a small community and you can’t walk away…” (Archive)

regional AUCTION report united states viv lawes (Archive)

Gagosian talks! (Archive)

Gallery week initiative for New York (Archive)

Modernism and Art20 combine on Park Avenue (Archive)

Royal connection for Galerie Gmurzynska (Archive)

Warhol’s dollar bills attract big bucks in New York sales (Archive)

AUCTION report (Archive)

Dealers look to LA future (Archive)

Features

How the Victoria and Albert Museum dealt with the dying of Christianity

Art to atone for our sins (Archive)

Reclaiming art for the working man (Archive)

Family feud at one of world’s top collections: Baroness Thyssen vs Francesca von Habsburg (Archive)

The multiple guises of Asher Edelman (Archive)

Francesca von Habsburg: “I am a visionary, much like my father” (Archive)

New Tate Britain director’s artistic side (Archive)

Having one of the best collections in Germany is not enough to keep the public happy (Archive)

Saatchi, the starmaker, takes search for new talent to TV (Archive)

Books

Progress through destruction (Archive)

Tout à fait Fini: 2 men, 17 cats (Archive)

The concrete labyrinth (Archive)

The conjurer concealed by his assistants (Archive)

Dolphin-friendly scholarship (Archive)

The female body is alive and well—and fighting back (Archive)

Why is Vermeer so revered? (Archive)

The famous five (Archive)

Pontius Pilate—from indifference to hostility (Archive)

The bid for political and artistic hegemony (Archive)

A girl’s own 18th-century art adventure (Archive)

Cindy Sherman, Sèvres ceramicist? You bet (Archive)

This is not a drawing (Archive)

Doggedness, chutzpah and resilience (Archive)

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