News
Fears that the President’s surprise concession means less for museums
Why American art museums are reluctant to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War
Palestine and Syria object to the addition of three further sites to Israel’s “national heritage” list
The Getty and a Roman museum join forces
City’s art in peril from over enthusiastic gamblers
Fears that the President’s surprise concession means less for museums
Cancellation follows accusations that the object was looted, although no formal claim has been made
Listed sites including the Hôtel de la Marine are set to be rented out to private companies
Nine people to be questioned following extensive damage at the 2,000-year-old site
Artist won biennale competition
“Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings” will have a much-reduced final volume
Gemäldegalerie will celebrate 500th anniversary of commission
Market
Where did the drawing come from—and is it the real thing?
Cancellation follows accusations that the object was looted, although no formal claim has been made
Fallout from Leonardo case sees London dealers locked in legal dispute
Rent reductions have led to the creation of cultural hubs in place of shops
Major curators, including Neville Wakefield, commit to Ford Models’ gallery
Manhattan galleries take a punt on the “second city”
The German gallerist on her move away from the Mitte district and why she hopes Berlin Gallery Weekend won’t be too busy
Dealer follows the pack to the Marais district
“Berlin-Paris” participants pleased but there are dissenters
Tokyo’s dealers and houses acknowledge shift to Beijing
Art Stage Singapore pleases, but is Hong Kong the hub?
regional auctions UK Viv Lawes
Canvases removed as bids increase
Books
A clutch of recent life histories of Michelangelo reveals a gregarious, albeit uniquely creative, nature
The common ground between the culture of “collection museums” and a Daniel Buren installation at the Pompidou
On the wealth of works of art amassed by the higher clergy
Complex, mannered, elegant and strange, the artist is back in postmodern fashion
The saints in Italian art from the 14th to the 17th century
This study of Guercino’s alleged political motivations is seriously flawed
The many faces of Natalia Goncharova’s prolific career
The life and work of Patrick Procktor
Catalogues of the 19th-century miniatures in the Royal Collection and of those in the Wallace Collection
Comment
The culture secretary’s latest scheme to encourage corporate giving has the wrong focus
While holding out one hand to the arts and culture, the government is taking away with the other, by removing financial support right across the sector
Unesco has provoked fury by designating two tombs that Israel claims are its exclusive cultural heritage as Palestinian. We sought the views of a respected figure in the international Jewish community and a leading Palestinian academic on the decision
Is the E150m deal with a Russian businessman finally off the table? By Alexander von Hahn
Conservation
Conservators to repair damage done to Shakespeare First Folio during the ten years it went missing
Famed tenor pleads to stop Allianoi’s ruin
Getty investigates and stabilises ancient bronze from Pompeii
Excavations in the capital are revealing layer on layer of history
Exhibitions
The casino capital of the world is acquiring cultural respectability
Jean Pigozzi convinces artist Carsten Höller to mix and match the French collector’s Japanese and Congolese art
From young man to old leftie and New York to Amsterdam
The Morgan lets the public decide if it’s really Shakespeare
Mammoth retrospective in Texas for the 97-year-old artist
Frank Lloyd Wright as an early environmentalist
How Keith Haring became a darling of the art world
Mexican collection reaches California
For Turner Prize winner the personal is political in Chicago
Flemish artist arrives in London from New York—with a difference or two
Arcangel’s devilish, unwinnable video
You can take the artist out of the Midlands housing estate…
Couturier Christian Lacroix’s “orientalist” vision
Elegant, humorous, erotic—and liberated
Baroque and rococo ivory fit for a Holy Roman Emperor
German tableware that set the standard of good taste
Masterpieces by Melozzo reunited
After a troubled 2010 edition, Spanish contemporary fair Arco aims to put the past behind it
Works priced to entice new collectors
Features
Is the €150m deal with a Russian businessman finally off the table?
After 40 years of silence, collector David Lewis talks publicly on the eve of his major loan exhibition, by Viv Lawes
Susan Hiller on the 1970s, public engagement and the supernatural By Louisa Buck
Harald Falckenberg on art as adventure, working with the Hamburg Deichtorhallen, and owning 150 works by Richard Prince By Rita Pokorny
The life of late photographer Francesca Woodman and the frank observations of her artist parents
Museums
Museums greatly over estimate the dangers of lending, European research shows
Louvre forced to make unprecedented reduction in running costs
Press baron’s foundation claims art
Works of art by the likes of Hockney, Hirst, Bonnard and Bacon total £147m in gifts
Stealth cut feared to acquisition fund
Meanwhile in Europe, the artist’s foundation battles“pseudo museums” to protect his brand
Los Angeles collectors aim for ultra accessibility
Leading directors and curators choose their most significant gifts and purchases of the year
Brussels shows and Budapest appointment overshadowed by government’s hands-on cultural policy
Tycoon to create space to display his old masters and automobiles
Photography centre seeks new home
Peter Weibel, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, on the Moscow Biennale and subverting military technology to create virtual sculpture
As a museum of modern Arab art opens in Doha, the “new” Arab states challenge the old to be the region’s art centre
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