News
Works of art worth £100m from historic collections go to market
Madrid’s National Archaeological Museum may have bought trafficked items
From £200 to £20m, the newly valued object is leaving UK for Germany
Madrid’s National Archaeological Museum may have bought trafficked items
We reveal the aristocrats who are raising funds by selling works that in many cases were on show to the public
British Museum curator has identified cuneiform text inscribed on horse bones
“Art spies” said to be on look out for non-approved events
Critics say faulty alarm system is no excuse for nocturnal robbery of a Picasso, Matisse and Léger
Royal Academicians wrestle with how to make the most of their annexe
Italy gets first national museum of contemporary art—and a preview of its rival
Residents fight developer who bought museum’s air rights to build skyscraper
Yale prepares for the 2012 installation of its decorative arts galleries by reconstructing a period room
New studio for Port-au-Prince
Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Brussels is worried about sending its collection of wooden sculptures to Africa
Market
Shock as Monet Nymphéas is bought in, with other star works failing to shine
From enthusiasm to anger, London’s three-fair run had it all
From enthusiasm to anger, London’s three-fair run had it all
Confidence was up, sales were strong, but buyers were less prone to snap decisions
Magnus Renfrew praised for getting the mix right
Aurora Fine Art Fund claims it has conclusive evidence that £1.69m work is not by Boris Kustodiev
Fine Art Registry’s counter-claim for trademark infringement upheld
No dispute with Luhring Augustine
House sounds out possibility of insuring against price difference
Stricter enforcement of UK bond rules pushes dealers’ credit lines to the limit
Gagosian among four called to court
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their gallery, Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine look back on their partnership
“You don’t want to just give carte blanche. We want dialogue with our artists”
Books
A first-rate, scholarly account of the period told through an in-depth study of its jewellery
That Richard Hamilton has such a relatively low profile is surely scandalous
Comment
Culture is a social language that we would be dumb without
Speaking on behalf of impecunious collectors in the US, resist droit de suite as hard as you can
Conservation
Exhibition in Dresden reunites Dürer painting with altarpiece following a 21-year restoration
Rediscovered treasures go back on display in Venice
An exhibition of newly restored 19th-century wooden boards donated to the Shelburne Museum reveals early guerrilla marketing tactics
Features
Why is the artist, who died 400 years ago, now so popular, when for so long he was quite beyond the pale?
The famous library founded by Aby Warburg for a special kind of research may lose its essential nature
The gambling millionaire David Walsh is opening a museum in Tasmania that will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before
The gospel according to Alex, the West Coast heads east, making art after Madoff, Pace shows its ‘appy face
Beds and sharks revisited, on the road to Milton Keynes, remembering Soho’s characters, picking up the post
Archive interviews? Check. Cool soundtrack? Famous faces? Boost to the market? Check, check and check
A valuable study of the material changes in the city after the Ottoman conquest, sadly in thrall to the tyranny of semiotics
Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados are the basis of a study on the historical emergence of a visual culture
A first-rate, scholarly account of the period told through an in-depth study of its jewellery
Victor Pasmore in his own words
The life and career of Linley Sambourne, polymath artist
A history of the development of an international restitution ethic
… even when it is as well selected as this
A tribute to the late Philip Conisbee, who was involved in its making, this book is scholarly, but not without mistakes
The architectural historian hid his Jewish roots and supported Hitler’s regeneration programme as a patriotic young lecturer
Museums
Trustees approve museum’s downtown expansion, leaving future of historic home uncertain
Eli Broad lectures museum professionals at their annual conference in Los Angeles
California museums struggle through a recession that hasn’t hit bottom as the state nears its financial breaking point
The De Morgan Foundation is looking for a new home after Wandsworth Council terminated its lease
The prestigious British school's collection of antiquities are on show in the US as part of a 15-year loan
Because of a legal quirk, the museum's works could be sold off to pay factory employee pensions
Collector Marek Roefler shows off Polish art with French accent
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