News
Damage feared to underwater sites off the coast of Libya, after Gulf disaster
“Illegal” grant to trustee reveals slack procedures, and novelist Diran Adebayo refuses to repay the £10,165 given to him
Gulf Aid charity benefits from same spirit that responded to Hurricane Katrina
Damage feared to underwater sites off the coast of Libya, after Gulf disaster
“Illegal” grant to trustee reveals slack procedures
Alarm bells ring as commissioner and artist for Venice Biennale pavilion connected to the same New York gallery
Four pull out as ex-director says university “doesn’t understand” outrage
Gulf Aid charity benefits from same spirit that responded to Hurricane Katrina
Purchase begins final phase of Lord Rothschild’s visionary restoration of London’s Spencer House
But the new British culture minister insists the government is not walking away from the arts
A key question is whether the cuts will be staggered or all start immediately in 2011
After his Versailles retrospective, the Japanese artist will return to painting
Minister denies waiving E27m tax
Plans to redevelop Certosa, the largest abandoned island in the Venetian lagoon, include a nature park, marina and vineyard
Limited budget and predominance of US artists do not dim director’s enthusiasm
Non-commercial focus was breath of fresh air, says organiser
Seine island may finally be developed
Market
A recent glut of auction records suggest the rich are once again investing in art
A recent glut of auction records suggest the rich are once again investing in art
Disgraced dealer sentenced for “art world’s biggest fraud”
Move by auction house garners mixed response from dealers
The German bank's art consultancy service will contract, while art financing is to expand
Art services are restructured
Over a third of last year’s galleries will stay away
Organisation banned from continuing activities
Hervé Aaron, one of France's leading antique dealers, believes in the power of the market
Leaving the house has never seemed more unnecessary
Artists and dealers can be badly hit by late payments
A comparison of art versus gold
Books
The complex and masterful relationship of Rubens to his predecessors
An exhibition catalogue that bullishly re-examines works made towards the end of the artist’s life
Essays on the surrealist house, where function met fantasy
A short, insightful study of Otto Dix
A comprehensive study and a collection of essays on 17th-century prints
Two exhibition catalogues demonstrate their increasing importance to scholarship, but with different approaches
The story and study of the remarkable Toms Collection of tapestries
Comment
The art scene in Istanbul is active but the protagonists are locally minded and not as truly international as their contemporaries in New York, London, Berlin or Beijing
The Manichean vision that allocates good and bad practice in the institution and market respectively is no more than a passé notion, in fact, a mere cliché.
Museums don’t have to own art. We can commission it, or we can borrow and return it. Stewardship is the new normal
The University of London is not “trying to curtail the Warburg’s independence” but instead respects, and takes great pride in, its unique character
The vice-chancellor of the University of London understandably paints a picture of harmony; but it is a mirage
Conservation
The Virgin minus fog: National Gallery in London cleans its famous canvas while the Louvre perform a quantitative chemical analysis on the Mona Lisa
Specialists say they have been left out in the cold
Asia and the Pacific come out on top
Restorers may have discovered a way to save the volcanic stone Moai on Easter Island from damaging lichens
Exhibitions
Curators focus on the link between art and politics to restore the Brazilian biennial’s international status
Features
PBS launches interactive portal making visual arts programming more accessible than ever
The Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has turned his fictional Museum of Innocence into fact
Louis-Antoine Prat on how he has amassed the greatest collection of French drawings, soon to go on show in Australia
US museums are shunning traditional exhibition catalogues for print-on-demand and online versions By Judith H. Dobrzynski
Artist duo Bik Van der Pol on climate change, butterflies and why they’re not pointing any fingers By William Oliver
US museums are shunning traditional exhibition catalogues for print-on-demand and online versions By Judith H. Dobrzynski
Artist duo Bik Van der Pol on climate change, butterflies and why they’re not pointing any fingers By William Oliver
Boozing and brawling at Max’s, performance promoted, an anthropology of art practice and the distrust of dealers
Something Strange in West London, the art of the car park, a Baghdad tribute and Maggi blowing in the wind
A film new on DVD reveals a portrait of a warm and profoundly thoughtful artist
PBS launches interactive portal
Museums
Girl with a Pearl Earring heads to Japan despite previous problems at Kobe museum
Surprise announcement of donation poses questions that will be difficult for the government to deal with
Miami Art Museum’s new director keeps his cool as local philanthropist favours New York
New space for Los Angeles Holocaust centre opens in October
Chilean museum runs out of funds to re-open its doors in time for the country’s bicentennial celebrations
But debt-ridden Berlin set to build a €30m kunsthalle, and a €270m library
Research into gender gap in collections
Opera chief to run Oslo museum
Swedish expert says women bosses will prefer culture to football
Poland appoints first foreign museum director
Gunnar Kvaran on how Oslo’s Astrup Fearnley Museum will bring more international contemporary art to Norway
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