News
Taking academics to court over authentication issues is eroding independent expertise
An avant-garde enthusiast and an investment banker have joined forces to save the site from commercial development
Artists argue that law could adversely affect works involving appropriation
But employment in galleries is expected to rise by 2015, says Otis report
Owner wants to extend contentious, six-year“temporary” export licence
Confusing systems impede conservation
A Courtauld conference will investigate works on paper said to be by the artist. Owner’s side to offer legal immunity
UK libel law is in urgent need of reform
German art institute puts more than 100,000 photographs from Munich art exhibitions online
Four brothers chain themselves to museum as images of items from archive are sold online
Archaeologists see membership as a step forward while Israel and the US suspend funding in protest
Mayor obtains guarantee that the event will be rescheduled after being scrapped because of senator’s complaints
Market
The most culturally successful Abu Dhabi Art to date was without the Guggenheim this year
Major auction houses and galleries have been caught up in Beltracchi’s fake art scam
The people and the places
Old Master specialist opens London space and shifts selling strategy to include modern and contemporary
Tournier missing from Musée des Augustins since around 1818 was at Paris fair with London dealer
Steven Murphy looks back on his first year as the auction house’s chief executive
A raft of art fairs, new and established, and a growing collector base suggest the genre is gaining momentum
Sales were strong despite increasing restrictions
Results were surprisingly strong, apart from one Christie’s sale. But buyers at Sotheby’s had to run the gauntlet of protesters
Individual records tumble, but market is still primarily domestic
Abu Dhabi: less haste and a change in taste
The most culturally successful Abu Dhabi Art to date was without the Guggenheim this year
Books
Luminaries of the art world reveal their choices of “the best art book I read this year”
A full-scale life of Nikolaus Pevsner
Lee Krasner was more than Pollock’s acolyte, a new biography argues
The intertwined lives, careers and works of two of surrealism’s greatest artists
Although there are few by Jackson, the Pollock family letters reveal much about him before he was famous
Comment
The financial turmoil has been an incentive rather than a barrier for the wealthy to buy art
Conservation
Authorities plan to knock down 50% of buildings within the business district, including historic properties
Ancient artefacts to be displayed for the first time?but major project to restore renaissance rooms still requires funds
Features
New technology is shedding light on an Old Master as the prolific, multi-talented artist enjoys a renaissance
After helping to create a new Yves Saint Laurent retrospective, his former partner discusses the fashion designer’s legacy
Mark Handforth moved to Miami before Art Basel transformed its art scene. He can still find the city’s original “crazy energy”
Steve McQueen’s “Shame” explores addiction; Jan Svankmajer’s “Surviving Life” charts one man’s disturbing dreams
Graham-Dixon enthuses about the artist
Jo Ann Kaplan’s documentary of the early film-maker
Museums
US museum directors wrestle with the long-term consequences of artefacts acquired without watertight provenance
Accounts reveal ?1m in unauthorised transactions; and the ?500,000 “Britain in Palestine” exhibition that never was
Backlash in Budapest to proposed merger with Museum of Fine Arts
James Rosenquist and Ed Ruscha are among the artists talking about their work for posterity
Endowed posts give university museums more independence
Nationals reluctantly set up trusts to help gain access to their own reserves
But its fragile Vermeer must stay in London
Extra wing increases renovation works and extends deadline
Bank forced to withdraw its support for museum of Subirachs’s work in Barcelona
The director of the Nationalgalerie, Udo Kittelmann, gets the green light to rehang Gemäldegalerie with modern masters
Opening clouded by 25% budget cut to historic institution
Leading expert has “severe doubts” about work lent to Vienna museum by Norwegian collector
Founding director resigns as Birnbaum cuts cost of satellite
Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s new wonder-building has been launched as a memorial to its late director
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