News
Artists have used the walls of Cairo, Damascus and Tripoli to document the uprisings
Outcry over English Heritage’s “disgraceful” support for potential sale of significant collection of classical sculptures
Artists who use others’ work could be fined or have their websites shut down
Top quality works are keeping the numbers up, but there are uncertain times ahead
The Roman city risks joining the World Heritage in Danger list
The German artist Tobias Rehberger plans to build a tennis court in London's Hyde Park and has invited Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to play on it
Outcry over English Heritage’s “disgraceful” support for potential sale of significant collection of classical sculptures
The gallery is being sued over an allegedly fake Pollock, sold for $17m in 2007
Artists who use others’ work could be fined or have their websites shut down
Art Basel?Miami Beach directors voice concern over proposals for Las Vegas-style resorts in Greater Miami
Report commissioned by the Arts Council England is critical of the funding of its project
Paralympic show: Cragg’s outdoor event
Italy’s former minister of culture
The German collector shelves plans to build a Berlin museum in favour of long-term loans to the US
The plan is to restore the property and open it to visitors
Artists have used the walls of Cairo, Damascus and Tripoli to document the uprisings
Market
This is a prime opportunity for art recovery experts to retrieve works
Dealers say royalties mostly go to artists’ descendants and that British business is under threat
Two charges to go, for short-stay works
Tough times lie ahead for galleries, but auction houses and art advisers could continue to prosper this year
Nicolai Wallner is working to develop the Danish contemporary art scene
Works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Adriaen Coorte and Willem van de Velde the Younger surpassed previous prices
The days when buyers would pay top prices for any work seem to be over
A market that’s still to be fully tested
Dealers prepared well in advance for this year’s fair, and were rewarded for their efforts
Books
The catalogue raisonné doesn’t include the German artist’s early GDR works
Hal Foster’s radical analysis of five pop art painters challenges long-held assumptions
The letters of Max Liebermann
Hans Ulrich Obrist on exhibitions, and two US curators on teaching in museums
Betty Churcher’s last looks at art before going blind
An exhibition catalogue that is erudite, sound and elegant—but for scholars, not the general reader
Five artists combined loyalty to the Counter-Reformation with personal vision
A flawed handbook of political iconography that cries out for greater scholarship
Comment
We suggest the city looks for other sources of revenue, allowing cultural institutions to continue to do what we do best
The more Boston charges its Museum of Fine Arts, the less we will be able to do for Bostonians
The national museums should be encouraged to market the rest of Britain through their collections
Conservation
Campaign grows to repaint the last large-scale Keith Haring in Australia
Artist chose “cheap and cheerful” wood
Church in Valletta reopens in lead-up to artist’s 400th birthday
Virtual visits are now a reality
Exhibitions
European Capitals of Culture 2012, Maribor and Guimarães, aim to dispel the gloom in Slovenia and Portugal
The American galleries open at the Met
Sunbathing and swimming Californian style
Surrealist women artists follow Alice’s footsteps
Yale’s celebration of Shakespeare’s comedies in art
Face-to-face with Zoe Strauss
David Hockney’s multi-canvas Yorkshire paintings at the Royal Academy
The British Museum turns its face to Mecca
The paintings of Winston Churchill and the Pasha’s son
Artist’s first solo show at Margate’s Turner Contemporary
Simon Fujiwara returns to St Ives
Numerous international loans at the Fondation Beyeler
A retrospective at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum
A year of exhibitions reveals the many and varied aspects of the Prussian king
The first continental Stubbs show ever
A Saudi mall becomes an art space
The Van Abbemuseum and a Turkish foundation cement their partnership
Ancient Greek coin collection includes one featuring the conquering hero’s war elephant
Features
Fears that cultural tourism will suffer this summer; London's museums and galleries will not reap the rewards until the years to come
Frank Stella is showing a major collaboration with architect Santiago Calatrava in northern Spain
A new study of Charles and Ray Eames proves definitive, but Pipilotti Rist’s feature-length film fails to convince
Four videos feature the artist’s stage work, sculptures and constructions
Museums
Boston’s leading museums and charities face sharp rise in “voluntary” payments to city
Director of Museum of Fine Arts opposes sharp rise in payments to city, others stay tight lipped
The Miami Art Museum is to become the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County after pledge worth $35m
Renzo Piano’s extension to the Isabella Stewart Gardner meant her carriage house had to go
Director says low-key campaign pays dividends
Government stops funds, focus shifts away from Africa
Shipwreck forced artist to repaint Indian scene
Vienna’s Summer Palace to open for groups and receptions only
Oil sketch identified in National Gallery
Billionaire with big museum plan and political ambitions
Stand-off over building that houses the “Hermitage of the Urals”
Moscow show is a tactile experience
Lars Nittve, the executive director of West Kowloon’s planned museum, is nurturing homegrown talent
Oil sketch identified in National Gallery
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