News
Why Henry Moore objected to the Tate's purchase
Nervous investors have rushed to safety in gold and the Swiss franc but art looks more volatile
Mobile space for disaster-hit region
Some buildings damaged in the attack contained works by artists including Munch and Dolven
Paintings donated on African trip in 1992 urgently need conservation
Original proposals for a 15-storey building have been scaled back amid opposition
Politicians have allocated €8.2m for an archaeological survey that already exists
Inclusion of Arab and Caribbean locations, among others, seen as redressing North America/Europe bias
Painting from Florence was bartered during the war
Imi Knoebel’s abstract designs continue a trend that has radically altered the traditions of the “poor man’s Bible”
St Cuthbert Gospel, regarded as a sacred relic, was not offered to Durham Cathedral, its former home
Croatian priests and politicians reject Vatican ruling
Frax Foundation recovers work from missing heir
Protestors claim archaeology project is sham to prevent political protests
Market
Legal battle between dealers draws to a close
Studio “switch in policy” over works previously auctioned for up to £73,250
Gagosian plans Hirst catalogue and major multi-venue exhibition
Work returned to Austria pending clarification on status of contents
Auction law change in line with rest of Europe
Record profits as investment in the US giving way to China
Castlestone says no works taken during regulator’s raid
Works assessed for loan potential
A common refrain is that there are too many of these events, with too much low-value art
Art dealer Giovanni Pratesi has got a whole city and the rigid export authorities to back Italy’s top art and antiques fair
In his first ever interview, the dealer and collector Helly Nahmad reveals details about the family collection, which goes on show in Zurich this month
How well did we anticipate the Old Master results? It depends how you look at it
How well did we anticipate the Old Master results? It depends how you look at it
Books
The complete correspondence of the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet has reached the last of its nine volumes
When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?
Eight film and video artists talk about their work
An up-to-date catalogue of the Constance I. and Ralph H. Wark Collection of Meissen porcelain
Alexandre Cabanel: the Tradition of Beauty Andreas Blühm, Michel Hilaire et al Hirmer Verlag, £29.95 (hb)
A compendium of the many international legal documents on art, heritage and cultural safeguards
An inspiring selection (but don’t put it in your backpack)
Comment
As research from the last crisis shows, when investor confidence evaporates, all assets start to correlate, something many art market insiders like to forget
The most basic element of accessibility [for museums] is to be open for as long as possible, to allow as many people as possible to visit
Conservation
Thai army cedes ground but future of Cambodian World Heritage site remains unresolved
Overlooked masterpiece will be the subject of new research
Anoxic storage can slow deterioration
Exhibitions
The untitled 12th edition, inspired by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, reflects the political and the personal in art
The Moscow Biennale focuses on history in the making
MoMA’s definitive De Kooning retrospective will not travel
San Diego’s early start to Pacific Standard Time
Washington’s Warhol double bill
Degas’s dancers take centre stage
Tate shows there’s more to Flanagan than jumping hares
The Norwegian artist’s love of photography and film explored
A millennium of tension and vision of harmony
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 24 September-31 December
The place of art and commerce in Renaissance Florence
Raphaels reunited for the Pope’s German visit
Rare documents hail from New York to Liverpool
When architects and designers got into trouble with the purists
Features
Ten years after the devastating attacks on New York, does the reconstruction do justice to the site, and to the victims?
The new World Trade Center site is going to be one very strange and unpleasant place, over-scaled and aggressively bereft of humane meaning
A timeline of the events that led to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site
Details of the four skyscrapers planned for the new World Trade Center
How the National Gallery negotiated a record eight loans including a long-lost canvas, Saviour of the World
Carsten Höller has a PhD in insect communication, but he abandoned the rules of science for the “subjective experience” of art
On the eve of his retrospective in Vienna, reclusive artist Walter Pichler offers a rare glimpse inside his Austrian farm
James Fox, Waldemar Januszczak and Andrew Graham-Dixon go head to head
The heart of Ground Zero will be a memorial plaza and museum dedicated to the victims of the attacks
The work was assumed lost until it turned up in an American private collection
Museums
As museums in Boston and New York put up prices, we ask who charges, and why
As the scale of unethical disposals emerges, who knew what?
Arts Council England will reward individual merit, scrapping the Byzantine “hub” system
Why blow the budget on a blockbuster when a single Caravaggio or Titian will bring in the crowds?
Single work shows don't always pay off
Swedish photography gallery is latest to cover up explicit work
Projected cost of Humboldt Forum increases to €590m
Facebook's nudity ban often falls afoul of art groups
Why part of the Stedelijk, most of the Rijksmuseum and all of the Van Gogh Museum will be shut too
Budget halved, battling politicians, the director of the city’s fine art museum says it’s a “tragedy”
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