News
V&A will reunite Raphael’s Sistine tapestries with their cartoons for first time in 500 years
Art + Auction backer and Guggenheim trustee deny any wrongdoing
New museum planned for Moscow?
Defendant says the work is not original enough to copyright
Ethnologist’s love of beer immortalised
Plans for “1.5” event and increased fundraising after second edition delayed
With the imminent poll set to be one of the closest in decades, cultural organisations go on the offensive
A year after the disaster, the historic city of L’Aquila is inaccessible and wholly unrestored
The new director of the Art Fund on his plans to refocus the UK’s leading art charity
The California artist will be creating Europe’s biggest neon installation in a tube station
By keeping busy with shows in Mexico City, Berlin, Venice and Monaco
Berlin Senate plans green spaces and light displays to link its great institutions
Market
The old master dealer on market caution, setting the record straight with Colnaghi, and working for a very private collector
For Art Dubai, caution was the watchword, while Art Paris made changes and Arco got caught in the headlamps
The most expensive items proved hard to shift, although dealers seemed content
Versailles, Pinault and me: Perrotin answers the critics
Artists including Chuck Close join campaign to stop sale
Marathon saleroom session sees strong prices, though low estimates distort result
New security measures raise concerns over fragile works
The demise of Grosvenor House has left a three-way fight for supremacy
But sales at most Armory Week events were patchy and doubts grow about the main fair’s future direction
Books
A former director writes about his forebears, while an historian takes a wider view
The Soviet dispersal of works of art is detailed in this book
What was in the mind of Arcimboldo when he painted his famous pictures?
An evocation of the riches of Queen Leonor’s gifts to the Madre de Deus
Fashion and Armour in Renaissance Europe Angus Patterson V&A Publishing, £19.99 (hb) ISBN 9781851775811
The first ever English translation of Das Ständebuch
The story of the Jaharis Lectionary falls between two stools
The first volume of illuminated manuscripts held by the university
A new appreciation of the sheer complexity of Ingres’s artistic strangeness
The art world still awaits a definitive taxonomy of Van Gogh’s works
New material for students of 18th-century taste, collecting, archaeology and the cultural exchange between Italy and Britain
The world where work and art met
Comment
There is an impasse preventing the world’s art museums from adopting less stringent standards
Seductive for the newcomer and a standard reference book for scholars
Conservation
Dresden comes out fighting against claims of the English invention of china
Colour fading in an Elizabeth I portrait gave a false impression of her complexion
The Getty and Disney join forces for plastics research project
Experimental process of the early 1990s is proving unstable
An experimental process of the early 1990s is proving unstable
Exhibitions
Features
Claes Oldenburg on his love of things, the loss of his wife and whether to accept a commission for Abu Dhabi By Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz
Thomas Olbricht says yes—but he hopes it will be unconventional By Rita Pokorny
Claes Oldenburg on his love of things, the loss of his wife and whether to accept a commission for Abu Dhabi By Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz
Banksy’s “Exit Through the Gift Shop” keeps us questioning his motives
Damien Hirst speaks to Sky Arts but says little
Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein’s museum in Vienna may be spending more than any other in the world By Martin Bailey
Wallace curator gets more than he bargained for, a tribute to “Avalanche” magazine and Jagger as a fairy queen
From gallery to voting booth, why De La Cruz has nothing on offer and Steve McQueen’s diplomatic credentials
Museums
Leading directors have been questioning the scientific validity—and cost—of running air conditioning to the current standard specification
Museum rejects Italian judge’s decision because the Fano Athlete was found outside Italian waters
Museum rejects Italian judge’s decision because the Fano Athlete was found outside Italian waters
Structural problems delay Stedelijk again—builders take the flack
Folkwang rehangs paintings that made Hitler see red
Revamp of Bibliothèque Nationale threatens nation’s oldest collection
Leighton’s palatial Victorian home regilded and rehung
The Bass Museum’s director Silvia Karman Cubiñá on mixing contemporary art with ancient Egypt
Sweden, Finland and Czech Republic disqualify non-native speakers from their top museum jobs
Change at the top of the European blockbuster tree in Paris, London and Moscow, but business as usual in New York
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