News
City biennial explores issues of identity and citizenship
President criticised for appointing a journalist as director
V&A is now in discussions to mount an exhibition on the late British fashion designer
How the Getty was a catalyst for a citywide rediscovery of a history that was in danger of disappearing
The Cern research facility, home to the large hadron collider, is to offer a series of artists’ residencies
Push for economic progress and development sidelines scholarship
The Government Art Collection isn’t entirely sure where everything is…
The Cern research facility, home to the large hadron collider, is to offer a series of artists’ residencies
Claimants say the work was lost by a sale of duress
Herzog’s heirs can now pursue Hungary through the courts to recover 32 works
FBI feared the tycoon was fraternising with German spies and selling oil to Hitler
No one is taking responsibility for the work, which stands opposite the Houses of Parliament
City biennial explores issues of identity and citizenship
President criticised for appointing a journalist as director
La Fabrique designed to transform the city into a creative hub
How the Getty was a catalyst for a citywide rediscovery of a history that was in danger of disappearing
Year-long partnership with museum is up for review
Five Car Stud is just as emotive as it was in 1972
Market
Some dealers blame the spectacular failures seen during Asia Week's sales to the premium lot system
Dealers unsure about Art Platform, but hope to benefit from Pacific Standard Time ripple effect
The auction house says there is “no credible support” for allegations it sold illegally traded Khmer artefacts
But regulation of platforms can’t keep up with demand
Once there were six, now two survive
Dealers unsure about Art Platform, but hope to benefit from Pacific Standard Time ripple effect
Public and private commissions grow across Los Angeles
The man who moved to LA and stopped making films
“Premium lots” damaging sales?
Despite Art Forum’s absence, Art Berlin Contemporary fails to pull in the crowds
Fair shifts focus to lure collectors
Books
The first of two surveys on the emergence of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art as distinct entities
How the Republic’s favourite disguise often covered more virtue than vice
Was post-war art in California as potent as that of New York?
A survey of the arts in California, 1974-81
Kellie Jones, ed Prestel, $60 (hb)
Wendy Kaplan, ed MIT Press, $60 (hb)
Attempts to confront dying and death through the camera lens
Chris Yetton, Royal Academy of Arts, £29.95 (hb)
Essays that complement and expand the catalogue of the Met’s “Tapestry in the Baroque” exhibition
The impact on its original viewers of sculpture from the fifth century BC is explored in this book for experts
The history and current state of Herculaneum
Charles Jencks Frances Lincoln, £40 (hb)
A study exposes the moral ambivalences of the Städel’s directors during the Nazi era
A meticulous history of Irish museums and their place in public awareness
Comment
The Visual Artists Rights Act does protect America’s site-specific work, despite recent rulings
The Visual Artists Rights Act does protect America’s site-specific work, despite recent rulings
From 2013 China will have a declining working population… but India’s will grow for 30 years
Image isn’t everything in this city
Conservation
Anti-Gaddafi forces claimed control of two key heritage sites in August
An increasing graffiti problem is threatening the future of the city’s public works of art—and artists’ rights laws aren’t helping
An increasing graffiti problem is threatening the future of the city’s public works of art—and artists’ rights laws aren’t helping
Resin work has been restored after 20 years in the artist’s studio
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum plays down growing fears about the condition of its collections
Exhibitions
Pacific Standard Time puts city’s lesser known artists in the spotlight
Boetti work is highlight of contemporary sale
Features
Paul McCarthy on his B-movie early ambitions, art schools, the pressure to move to New York and why he’ll never leave LA
How Los Angeles made its reputation as the art world’s outsider city
How Los Angeles made its reputation as the art world’s outsider city
Paul McCarthy on his B-movie early ambitions, art schools, the pressure to move to New York and why he’ll never leave LA
When Glenn Kaino thought the art world was getting too obsessed with money, he retreated into the realm of magic
In a rare interview, Victor Pinchuk tells us about his plans to build a new contemporary art space in Kiev
Contemporary artists are gaining recognition on the international scene
Ben Rivers’s documentary is a portrait of a life lived in isolation, while a web series focuses on artists living in New York City
David Gladwell’s vision of village life is released on DVD
Museums
Curators face uphill task getting OK from Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria
Dutch director’s radical disposal idea provokes chorus of disapproval
The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing
Fewer expensive loans, slimmed down exhibitions and staff redundancies in the big national museums
Curators face uphill task getting OK from Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria
Directors and curators in the spotlight
Pacific Standard Time bridges the US/Mexico border
Gallery takes shape in south of France
Impressionism shown in new light in €20m facelift, and café jazzed up
The Faurschous to open museums in Copenhagen and Beijing
Museum risks €250,000 copyright fine
…and display Christo’s archive in the Bundestag
His former wife gave part of $30m collection to the Pushkin Museum. His last wife called in the lawyers
Milada Slizinska dismissed for “disloyalty”, says director
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