News
Budget for Mark Wallinger's 50-metre high stallion has soared to £12m
The small, energy-rich state is behind most of the major modern and contemporary art deals over the past six years
A new report by the non-profit dealers’ federation Cinoa finds that fair-led and online business is taking over as the main source of revenue
The artist is part of a creative group developing a cultural quarter in Lapa
Collectors and artists flock to upstate New York
Were they destroyed by water or by fire, in London or Bath? And why were they sent to England at all?
French heritage authority wants Gehry-designed towers moved to reduce their impact on the city’s archaeology
Department of Justice intervenes in cases involving allegedly looted art
Indian government, as well as artists and intellectuals, criticised for hypocritical stance following exiled artist’s death
Report finds multiple failings in maintenance, security and management
An opera based on the life of Salvador Dalí will premiere at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in October
Cultural funding to be slashed by one quarter; performing arts worst hit
The Swiss curator’s “ILLUMInazioni” puts form firmly over content, leaving the national pavilions to display more unsettling, socially engaged works
Market
Campaigners push for reframed federal legislation that includes exemption for private galleries
With no sales in the diary and no work consigned, only shareholders can now save the Italian auctioneers
The growth of private museums means alpha collectors have space to fill and the means to do it
“People imagine it must be easy for me now…”
The most expensive pieces may have been slow to sell, but otherwise it was as if the downturn never happened
Bigger spenders with wider tastes in London
High turnout despite Masterpiece fears
Buyers at impressionist and modern art sales ventured past “trophy”works
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Books
A three-part survey of a slew of books on the 17th-century painter, starting with monographs
Catalogues full of perceptive observations, challenging speculations and controversial claims
Two studies of the artist’s life take radically different approaches to illuminating their subject
Domestic interior decoration as a sign of identity and as propaganda
The amazing and flamboyant career of the US collector, Norton Simon
How the director of the Nationalgalerie coped with the changes of the 20th century
Finding the avant-garde in the countryside, while downplaying the influence of refugees from fascism
The legacies of Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping
Comment
To adapt to an increasingly competitive market, dealers have expanded the channels through which they sell works
Given the art world in its current state, the American visual artist is low man on the totem pole
Conservation
Yale establishes a conservation centre with $25m gift
Yale establishes a conservation centre with $25m gift
Textile conservators test the public’s willingness to accept imperfections
Conservators say Sinai’s climate helped preserve art and artefacts
Says English Heritage’s chief executive
Funding secured for €1m project at Rome’s Palazzo Farnese
Exhibitions
The pick of Europe’s outdoor events that make the most of the summer months and warm nights
Fifteen works by game-bird painter in 19th-century auction
Features
Has street art finally gone mainstream? A plethora of recent shows might suggest so
National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne had a sensitive, secret role in recovering the Tate’s stolen Turners
On the eve of his solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Thomas Struth talks about society, the family and the gaze
The American sculptor says it is the contradictions, not the similarities, that make the Beyeler Foundation show interesting By Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz
Three programmes that turn the art world over to reality television
Documentaries on Julio González and Kazimir Malevich are particularly striking
Elizabeth Markevitch’s channel screens images, but offers no commentary
The Italian furniture maker on moving from hand-made to industrial production, and why he took Gio Ponti to pieces By Alex Coles
Museums
Staff struggle to finish Iraq museum inventory, at current rate project could take a century
Use Norway’s oil and gas billions to buy the best for the national gallery, says politician
New building being constructed in a medieval cemetery is facing protests from minority groups
Budi Tek builds bridges with Tate and MoMA, and buys work by Kiefer, Cattelan and Hatoum
Colchester’s Firstsite is likely to be the last in a line of publicly funded galleries outside the capital
Director gets OK to divert $10m for acquisitions to balance Detroit Institute of Arts’ budget
The Clark institute sells a minor Renoir to fund acquisition drive
But for many of the directors and delegates who met in Houston, domestic financial concerns are uppermost
But the Mayor of Sedan still dreams of prestigious loans for new museum
€8.5m upgrade for artist’s museum
Collector Harold Berg has agreed to lend "indefinitely” a cache of photographs by the artist
Heirs’ lawyer objects to “misleading” labelling
Louisiana’s director, Poul Erik Tøjner, on supporting Ai Weiwei
Museum of Fine Arts head Laszlo Baan responds to extension cancellation with €150m proposal for two new buildings
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