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In an era of austerity, reasons to fund the arts

Letter to the editor

News

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Secret negotiations over Iraq’s Jewish archives (Archive)

Thumbs up—and down (Archive)

In an era of austerity, reasons to fund the arts (Archive)

Otto Dix’s kunsthaus (Archive)

German opposition to Oppenheim sculptures (Archive)

Rethinking the Whitney (Archive)

Looted from Italy and now in a major Spanish museum? (Archive)

Staying power of sticky rice (Archive)

Exhibitions in run-down district reflect a new economic reality (Archive)

Art on the high seas (Archive)

Revisiting Venus (Archive)

Directors ban sales to fix cash crises (Archive)

Comings & Goings (Archive)

Immediate cuts of £61m (Archive)

Helping Haiti (Archive)

New York arts funding hit with massive cut (Archive)

Berlin Schloss on hold (Archive)

Dickinson case dropped (Archive)

Sigmar Polke (Archive)

American cultural centre for Baghdad? (Archive)

MoMA’s neighbours up the ante (Archive)

Salzburg museum at risk (Archive)

Richter “scandalised” by Germans’ Venice pick (Archive)

In Memoriam (Archive)

Romanian festival bigger than ever, but has “stressful” start (Archive)

Spaceship art lands on pier (Archive)

Reconstruction efforts begin at Ugandan tombs (Archive)

Future uncertain for Burlington Gardens

Who dunnit? Paris museum’s security blamed (Archive)

Arts Council targeted (Archive)

Saving a memorial (Archive)

US hero’s Greek tragedy (Archive)

Hamburg cash crisis (Archive)

Collectors to create “museum collection” (Archive)

Letters to the Editor (Archive)

Looted from Italy and now in a major Spanish museum? (Archive)

Mauritshuis thinks bigger (Archive)

It’s official: Nefertiti bust stays in Berlin (Archive)

University sued over expansion that threatens historic church (Archive)

Roman villas’ E4m makeover (Archive)

Broad promises 75% of wealth to charity (Archive)

Shanghai Expo censorship rows

Who is behind the great stately home art sell-off

Bringing back the Baroque—colonial style (Archive)

Aristocrats rush to sell the family silver

Turner’s riverside home to open to the public (Archive)

Marseille museums fraud investigated (Archive)

Stonehenge loses out (Archive)

Tomb discovered in Mexico (Archive)

In the frame (Archive)

Mixed reactions to Hadid’s MaXXi in Rome (Archive)

Dresden-Doha deal (Archive)

Cologne’s new windows (Archive)

Corrections and clarifications (Archive)

The Fatimid ewer that keeps on giving (Archive)

Colosseum gets a cleaning (Archive)

Cáceres contemporary (Archive)

…but move to Kreuzberg backfires (Archive)

Street artists take action (Archive)

Spain to open caves again despite risks (Archive)

Tour planned for Gaddafi’s summit hits problems

How the Gap loan deal was closed (Archive)

Officials ignore press (Archive)

Arts budget slashed (Archive)

Iceland’s government to buy bank art collection (Archive)

Return of the Bauhaus (Archive)

Museums

“Get art out of the basement”…

Eton’s Egyptology shared by Birmingham and Baltimore

…And pull in the crowds, says Broad

What now for Whitney’s Breuer building?

Oligarch opens museum in Warsaw

Fight to save Wedgwood collection from company pension scheme

Wanted: a home for Victorian artists

Market

Key lots: old masters (Archive)

London rents put squeeze on dealers (Archive)

Lebanon home for latest fair launch (Archive)

Michael Hue-Williams: Correction (Archive)

Christie’s sued over “fake” painting sale

Polaroids snapped up (Archive)

Tatintsian case settled

Impressionist and modern sales limp along in London (Archive)

Aboriginal artists on the street (Archive)

Rocky road to Rome (Archive)

Anger at customs clampdown

It felt good, but it felt different (Archive)

“You don’t want to just give carte blanche. We want dialogue with our artists”

Salander back on the streets (Archive)

New fair for London (Archive)

Guarantee cover for Christie’s? (Archive)

“My Manet” that made me an art dealer (Archive)

Hirst and Dunphy part company (Archive)

Pinta in London: high praise but slow business (Archive)

Subpoenas for Warhol trial (Archive)

Hong Kong keeps marching to the top (Archive)

Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine (Archive)

Australian forgeries to be destroyed (Archive)

Russian week on the up (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Mixed messages at antiques trio (Archive)

Malingue to open in Hong Kong (Archive)

Independent set for New York return in 2011 (Archive)

Fischer’s art in Barcelona (Archive)

Two new fairs planned for South Korea (Archive)

Park West Gallery loses claim for defamation (Archive)

Owned by a Medici (Archive)

Haunch of Venison founders plan new gallery (Archive)

Features

Giving things back—the how, when, where and why (Archive)

Books In Brief (Archive)

Melamid’s plans to preach to the converted (Archive)

When Constantinople became Istanbul (Archive)

Too much knowledge can be confusing… (Archive)

Caravaggio: sex, violence and film noir

Books In Brief (Archive)

Rubell fille sets the tone at the De Pury wedding party (Archive)

How a Caribbean sensibility took shape (Archive)

Deserving better (Archive)

Books In Brief (Archive)

The Warburg Institute is fighting for its life

Washington’s French paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries (Archive)

A new film on Jean-Michel Basquiat ticks all the boxes (Archive)

The pins and chains of Victorian social history (Archive)

Mr Punch, indeed (Archive)

Books In Brief (Archive)

A “subversive Disneyland” at the end of the world

Pevsner: not quite a Nazi (Archive)

If only everything could be as good as “The South Bank Show” (Archive)

Conservation

Gold and silver hidden in 1913 restored

Virgin unveiled after acid attack

Uncovered: American war of circus posters

Books

So much more than the “Father of Pop”

The pins and chains of Victorian social history