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News

Kandinsky Prize goes to Vadim Zakharov (Archive)

Strawberry Hill on the hunt for lost Walpole treasures

The glittering prizes (Archive)

The first ten years: definitely not alright (Archive)

Club sues artist for depicting its colours (Archive)

Strawberry Hill on the hunt for lost Walpole treasures (Archive)

Shaun Gladwell on life in Afghanistan

In memoriam (Archive)

Famous men reunited in original Urbino home? (Archive)

Why Van Gogh cut his ear: new clue

Foreign minister calls for Warsaw’s Palace of Culture to be demolished (Archive)

Why Van Gogh cut his ear: new clue (Archive)

Courts cannot dictate authentication board’s decisions Judge says he does not have power over Calder Foundation (Archive)

China on the hunt for lost items (Archive)

Two cities grin and bear it for one uneasy biennale (Archive)

Corrections and clarifications (Archive)

Nero’s gym in Rome revealed (Archive)

Europe-wide national debts are leading to swingeing cuts in culture budgets (Archive)

Crisis saves Estonian Academy of Arts project (Archive)

What’s in a name? Quite a lot if you’re Damien Hirst (Archive)

Church to sell window? (Archive)

Prince of Liechtenstein cancels Royal Academy show (Archive)

Singapore Biennale delayed from 2010 to 2011 (Archive)

Knives out for Pinault over resignation (Archive)

The princess and the paintings (Archive)

China pays to get looted art back (Archive)

Inside the US taxman’s Art Advisory Panel (Archive)

Church plans sale of Tiffany window to help homeless

In The Frame (Archive)

comings and goings (Archive)

Committee’s advice on Elgin archive overturned by minister (Archive)

Museums

Strikes hit French museums as unions fight job cuts (Archive)

Hermitage buys tsarist-era portraits (Archive)

Barnes Museum pushes forward move downtown

Woman sculptor enjoys revival aged 95 (Archive)

British Museum agrees Iran loan (Archive)

Dutch museum left empty as bank seizes collection (Archive)

Louvre rejects Turkish claim on Greek gods (Archive)

Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum set to expand (Archive)

Trustees past and present (Archive)

Hold a chicken in the air… (Archive)

Back to 1989 at Schöningen (Archive)

Outrage at secret loan to church (Archive)

Broad weighs up three LA sites for new museum (Archive)

V&A plans £120m second phase of renewals (Archive)

Vienna’s Kunstkammer to remain shut owing to lack of funds (Archive)

An intimate history of the tsars’ life in their summer home (Archive)

Farewell Thomas Hoving (Archive)

Will Miami Art Museum’s new home get off the ground? (Archive)

Rome’s Maxxi picks opening exhibitions (Archive)

Safe house: Albertina fixed after flood (Archive)

Market

Re-design for Art Basel Miami Beach…again (Archive)

Paris and Berlin link again (Archive)

MacDougall’s to the fore at strong Russian sales (Archive)

Art historian Parisot investigated. Again… (Archive)

sound bites (Archive)

“I wasn’t sure I wanted a heightened, deepened hustle” (Archive)

regional AUCTION report EUROPE viv lawes (Archive)

Anyone owed £20 by the Chapmans? (Archive)

Tiffany and Lalanne boost design at Christie’s (Archive)

New freeport opens (Archive)

Lawyers dismiss Park West libel case

Fair shrugs off memories of 2008 as confidence creeps back (Archive)

Old masters: the best vs the rest (Archive)

Christie’s sued for non-delivery (Archive)

Cautious but cheerful American art sales (Archive)

MacDougall’s to sell old masters (Archive)

Rise of the outside guarantor

Raid exposes Drouot’s secret problem (Archive)

Satellites surprise with solid performances (Archive)

African and Oceanic collectors seek out finest pieces (Archive)

Agnew makes way for outsider (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Lloyd Webber charity sells its Waterhouse (Archive)

Legal battle looms in wake of Partridge sale (Archive)

Features

Artist, activist and social campaigner—meet the man brutally assaulted by Chinese police (Archive)

From early icons to Putin the all powerful (Archive)

Something of the forest and the night (Archive)

And the Saatchi winner is… (Archive)

Big is not best in current economic climate (Archive)

Will US museums succeed in reinventing themselves?

Pawel and his entourage bring bling to Britain (Archive)

Conservation

Trio from Oudry’s menagerie soon to be reunited (Archive)

Riddle of the two Van Dycks

New paper lab for Abu Dhabi (Archive)

Byzantine cross restored (Archive)

Books

A fairytale castle seen through fresh eyes (Archive)

Remember to woo your figure by candlelight (Archive)

Failed fox and hedgehog manqué (Archive)

Pushing at an open door (Archive)

Religious works of the Enlightenment (Archive)

An artist in need of better friends (Archive)

Degas here... Degas there… (Archive)

Max Beckmann: the man in full (Archive)

What is beauty? (Archive)

What does Pre-Raphaelite mean? (Archive)

Two Pipers into one don’t quite fit (Archive)