News
Academic museums and universities are being targeted by a suspected art forger
You’ve missed Cincinnati, but Kehinde Wiley would still like to hear from you…
Founding director David Handley is at loggerheads with galleries over split of sales commissions
Ten years after our report, the looted Benevento Missal will be returned to the cathedral
Citizens vote against Thomas Demand’s Nagelhaus
Sandro Bondi defends commercial sponsorship but says new rules are needed
A new draft law would impose a charge on the 17.5m visitors a year
US museums and universities targeted by suspected art forger
Artists such as Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Maggi Hambling have produced campaigning images
British Museum is denied access to £42.5m of its own cash
Chancellor George Osborne’s spending review was met with relief by the lucky few
Culture minister announces budget “increase”
Rapid development is angering poorer residents of up-and-coming districts
Play funds other indigenous artists
Museums in Turin, Naples and Bologna suffer steep drops in financial and political support
Bailiffs sent from Paris to seize copies of sculptures
Market
Queen Luise is a perennial fascination to Germans, and books and exhibitions have mushroomed this year. So who is she?
UK government rejects committee advice, accepts Sotheby’s £20m valuation
Christie’s totals higher, but Sotheby’s had the standout individual piece
But Iran’s Moshiri can’t get into the Middle East top ten
Work consigned in Hong Kong does best
Some good prices were made, but top quality works were relatively thin on the ground
Frieze had the major collectors, its quota of celebrities and plenty of students. But the feel was calm, not frenzied
But buyers in Bogotá were mainly local, and even ex-President runs a gallery
All-round praise for the Parisian contemporary fair, despite unrest in France
Fashion illustration collection amassed by Joelle Chariau appears open to offers
Mexican dealers José Kuri and Monica Manzutto discuss their partnership—both professional and personal
The event looks to be winning the battle of London’s summer fairs
Work offered to National Trust
Once the art dealer announced his major museum job, the race was on to secure the gallery's artists
Does the city need another?
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Books
Two scholarly catalogues mark the tercentenary of the porcelain manufactory
Michael Baxandall’s unique ways of seeing
An exhibition catalogue and a biography of Eadweard Muybridge, the “discoverer” of animal locomotion
Hans von Aachen has long been overlooked—until now
Giorgione’s life and works, such as they are...
Queen Luise is a perennial fascination to Germans, and books and exhibitions have mushroomed this year. So who is she?
Bonhams brings sale to London; market uncertain despite demand for leading names
Comment
The Japanese artist’s works, with their “overdressed” style, are not at home amid the baroque décor
If a collector could go to a public archive and determine whether a prospective purchase was questionable, the object would likely remain unsold
Whatever one may feel about the art of Koons and Murakami, it is hard to imagine a more perfect setting for it than Versailles
After a funding “blitz”, it’s siege warfare by Robert Hewison
Conservation
Conservators gather in Turkey’s largest city to discuss protecting heritage without hampering people
Ancient tomb finds permanent home in western Turkey
A recent conservation project has brought publicity—and a lot more people
Recent restoration corrects earlier botched treatments
A new report says sites could make $100 billion a year by 2025
18th-century hospital is on the mend
Features
Italian deaf people now have the terms with which to enter the discourse of contemporary art
£3m required to reopen Kew Gardens’ 18th-century attraction to the public By Martin Bailey
Its backers range from Brad Pitt to Stephen Hawking, but can a new arts centre in northern Spain really replicate the success of the Guggenheim Bilbao?
Now approaching his 103rd birthday, Niemeyer continues to practise from his office in Rio de Janeiro
Vik Muniz spent three years with the catadores at the world’s largest landfill, but does he give us the whole picture? MEDIA REVIEW iain millar
Artist explores the traumas of real peoples’ lives
Deep in the Brazilian jungle, Inhotim’s founder Bernardo Paz offers artists a place to realise their most ambitious projects
Ged Quinn on the benefits of a free education, the influence of Caspar David Friedrich and working in pyjamas and wellies By Viv Lawes
Museums
Wider significance of Beuys case
Across America smaller institutions and heritage sites are on the verge of shutting, or already closed
But Arab donors are in scarce supply, while Turks, Iranians and others spend freely
Modern Wing’s structural engineers surprised to be sued for “inadequate” work
UK position weakened, leading to calls for greater safeguards against rash sales
Gallery planned in London mansion
These and other ideas for the reform of deaccessioning will be debated at the National Gallery in London on 10 May 2011
National Gallery of Australia dedicates new wing to indigenous artists
Mathaf’s focus will be art of Arabia
Canberra and Melbourne’s spectacular shows stretch institutional budgets
After one year in charge art historian leaves national museum having lost vote of confidence
Politicians give go-ahead to exhibition centre on site of famous brewery in the Danish capital
Ownership of patriotic paintings still undecided
German court rules museum breached artist’s copyright by displaying photographs of 1964 happening
Bremen museum’s controversial move to raise funds and return to kunsthalle roots
Museum must reimburse the state if it restores watercolour to rightful owners
Tobias and his Wife is the work of the master, as project takes wider view of oeuvre
Director Marie-Claude Beaud turns lack of space into an opportunity
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