News
Institutions working with China may face calls to do more as critical voices are silenced there
Artist's arrest prompts a heated debate on ethical implications for country's museums
Pressure eased over extradition of former KGB agent as Yuri Gagarin statue is unveiled in London
Works almost certainly destroyed last month when building was set on fire by pro-Gaddafi protesters
Leading indigenous artist says that awards like John Sulman Prize are not about art
Case should establish whether exhibitions will attract collectively negotiated fees
Sarah Morris based her work on their diagrams and now they want millions
Centenarian connoisseur and benefactor
LA sees rise in tagging in museum district—will the same happen in Brooklyn?
Institutions working with China may face louder calls to do more as critical voices are silenced there
A review to be completed in June is expected to consider greater co-operation
The struggling institution is forming a creative committee to help run the museum
Professionals dispute Goncharova attributions in recent books. Could money and professional rivalries be behind the conflict?
Zwelethu Mthethwa pulls out over “lack of transparency”
Installation will share artists' experiences during the Cold War
Moscow-based Aidan Salakhova presents her first sculptural works
Venetian archive sheds light on the painter’s surname and place of death
Artists invited to take on imagined personalities
Market
Frieze Art Fair and Art Basel expand their empires
Mexicans cry fake at Paris auction
Moving Image comes to a four-storey warehouse on the Southbank during Frieze week
Art.sy will unite would-be collectors with art and dealers they may not know. And it’s all built on trust
Was shaky sale down to culture clash?
Farbod Dowlatshahi no longer advisor to Khalili trust
Dealer hopes to entice newcomers
The people and the places
"As taste develops, collectors branch out and look outside their own frontiers," says Sotheby's Lord Poltimore
The founders of L&M Arts, Dominique Lévy and Robert Mnuchin, discuss their partnership
Fair loses 40 dealers from 2010
Auction and fair season gives Europe a run for its money
Impressionist and modern reports
Sotheby’s can’t keep up with main rival; Phillips holds its own
São Paulo does better business, but both fairs strictly local
Major Berlin dealers opt to stay put rather than make the trip across the border
regional auctions belgium
Incessant demand from China means long out-of-sight items are coming on to the block
Loyal collectors and galleries keep contemporary show on the map
Books
The vital and multifaceted endeavours of the aesthetic movement are brought to light as never before
The career of elusive Spanish master José de Ribera from his teens to his early 30s
The slow development of interest in Spanish art
Alberto Giacometti interpreted through his workplace
Making the case for narrative figuration
The significance of picture frames for icons and paintings
The recently discovered cache of photographs by Capa, Seymour and Taro documenting the Spanish Civil War
Comment
It’s a risky business if you do or don’t
But scholars are in too short supply
Conservation
Non-member status of the United Nations makes it ineligible to successfully nominate sites
Non-member status of the United Nations makes it ineligible to successfully nominate sites
Wood buildings in Turku, the 2011 European Capital of Culture, are being demolished to make way for new developments
Conservator confirms sculpture is by 17th-century artist Grinling Gibbons
Application process, which could take 15 years, has drawn attention to the Ancient Tea Horse trade route
Exhibitions
Canadian sale targets new Asian collectors
Art Parcours heads indoors to the city’s historic quarter, while the Messeplatz remains sculpture-free
Second edition moves to new, larger, London venue
Features
What’s the point of international art festivals like Venice, Folkestone and Yokohama, all on this summer?
Bice Curiger, curator of this year’s Venice Biennale, says its scope still makes the exhibition unique
Bice Curiger, curator of this year’s Venice Biennale, says its scope still makes the exhibition unique By Franco Fanelli
What’s the point of international art festivals like Venice, Folkestone and Yokohama, all on this summer? By Ben Luke
Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken and Matthew Barney are leading the way in a new kind of durational, theatrical art
Musician Antony Hegarty explains why he is performing in the stage production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic
The Roman authorities are holding a 30-year archive that reveals the true story behind thousands of transactions in the antiquities market: here is a taste of what will be revealed By Fabio Isman
Mike Nelson's work at the Venice Biennale has meant rebuilding an installation inside a rebuilt caravanserai within the British Pavilion
Armando Reverón and David Hockney appear in two classic films, while Andy Warhol’s exploits are remembered on Radio 4
Documentary captures Chinese artist in run up to arrest
Museums
Mixing clothes and art divides Moscow’s critics, while Met’s loan stays in NY
Museum of ancient & modern to open
Two years in the works, the exhibition was scheduled to open in September 2013 and could have travelled to the Louvre
Bank donates Miroslaw Balka’s sculpture to city’s new contemporary art museum
Borusan Holding to open space for its corporate collection
Melbourne gallery’s 150th anniversary
Denis Mahon’s gift of the century comes with conditions
Return trip for Captain Cook’s trophies and a few contentious objects
Folk Art Museum architects defend their design
Arts hub for indigenous scene
Visitor centre fit for a president to open in November
Pledge of e450,000 for acquisitions and funds to create mobile museum
Destinations Lille and Roubaix
Museum aims to“counteract abstraction”
Gerald Matt accused of “sponsorship for passport” irregularities
Af Klint not Kandinsky, says historian
Concept and organisation of city-wide survey show criticised
Museum mergers have cut numbers
But a reciprocal loan exhibition to the Mainland is still a step too far for Taiwan
Dragon Art Museum will be “self-sufficient” in works of art
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