News
American children allowed to travel to Havana only after last-minute appeal
Access to returned churches guaranteed, as Putin gives historic icon to convent that was in a museum
Fears of legal action if authenticity questioned at Hermitage seminar
French institutions are confident they will raise €3.8m to buy the philosopher’s papers by 2015
American children allowed to travel to Havana only after last-minute appeal
Artists, dealers and collectors swell the candidates’ coffers
Chairman of Sotheby’s UK to write long-awaited life of the grandest of grandees
Exhibition in three parts planned
Westminster’s sculpture festival
Access to returned churches guaranteed, as Putin gives historic icon to convent that was in a museum
Decentralisation and wider access to culture are high on Aurélie Filippetti’s agenda
Director and chief conservator of the Biblioteca dei Girolamini under police investigation; 1,000 books found in warehouse
Innovative international event aims to reform Italy’s weak cultural sector
Works include Picasso and Van Gogh
Around 20 works bought at Frieze NY
Jameel family leads the effort to restore and add to the 400-strong collection
Market
The Italian conceptual artist's work is on display in commercial galleries
Abbey House is part auction house, part gallery and part art fund. The value of its artists’ work has soared
Descendants of former owner contend it must have been sold under Nazi duress
Works held at Belgrade National Museum
Brussels wants to lower amount of cash businesses can accept without asking questions
Convicted gang is believed to have been the most prolific the country has seen
Many galleries acknowledge that supply is a problem, with artists under pressure to produce more work
International dealers descended on the city, but those with ties to Asia sold the most
Firm opens a newly built facility and announces first-quarter results
Prices at the auction houses continue to defy the global economic gloom, with contemporary works soaring
Best results for galleries who attended first edition anticipating conservative tastes
Nada may have been in Chelsea, but everyone else was on the island
The British-born dealer may be a reluctant power-player, but his new, larger space reflects his place in the pecking order
Books
The publication of the Franz Marc catalogue raisonné overcomes the shortcomings of previous attempts
The pressures of institutional political correctness are evidently responsible for significant omissions in this account
Christian, Jewish and Muslim anxieties about images
This original and brilliant book describes how Western archaeology and archaeologists appeared to Turkish eyes
Stanley Spencer’s garden paintings are intriguing, and so too his letters—even more so, had his illustrations been printed
The Wallace Collection’s glass and Limoges enamels
English drawings in the National Gallery of Scotland
A record of extant paintings, this catalogue also reconstructs the historic collection
The pre-1400 Italian paintings in London’s National Gallery
European arms and armour in the Wallace Collection
Silverware of the New York Historical Society surveyed
Evidence of the growing interest in Spanish drawings
Giant book proves awkward to handle
Comment
The biggest question mark obviously hangs over the size of the budget for Filippetti’s department, the most concrete expression of cultural policy
Future of culture ministry also uncertain
Conservation
The Bamiyan Buddhas will not be rebuilt, says Unesco. The architect Andrea Bruno proposes a scheme that focuses reverently on their absence
The Bamiyan Buddhas will not be rebuilt, says Unesco. The architect Andrea Bruno proposes a scheme that focuses reverently on their absence
Air conditioning and biocide believed responsible for fungal growths
Rebel group in control of Timbuktu desecrates venerated tomb and seeks to obliterate thousands of ancient manuscripts
The Villa Romana del Casale, noted for its fine third- to fourth-century mosaics, has had an €18m makeover
Restoration of the portico of the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela is expected to begin in early 2013
Exhibitions
For its 13th edition, the quinquennial German art festival has reached out from its Kassel base
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev reveals some of Documenta’s secrets
Manifesta focuses on the effects of deindustrialisation
Joana Vasconcelos finds inspiration in Marie-Antoinette
It is time to consider Cima da Conegliano
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 12 June-9 September
A look at the avant-garde’s obsession with cycling
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 27 June-30 September
Vladimir Tatlin’s lost and never-built works take centre stage
Raphael’s last 17 years in Rome
The Spanish artist’s friendship with the priest Justino de Neve
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 12 June-16 September
Jenny Saville’s beefy bodies go on show in Oxford
Yoko Ono cheers up London
Serpentine Gallery, London, 1 June-14 October
Renowned artists lure us back to the classroom at the Hayward
Saatchi Gallery, London, 28 June-14 October
Tate Modern, London, 28 June-14 October
The decorative qualities of the pop artist
The Queen’s glittering treasures
Various venues, Manchester, 2 June-16 September
The public decides which artist receives the Mohn Prize at LA’s first biennial
Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, until 17 July
Focus on Caribbean art across the city
Rineke Dijkstra captures youth on the verge of adulthood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 5 June-3 September
George Bellows’s unfamiliar work exposed
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 16 June-21 October
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2 June-2 October
Objects from the past and the present come together
Lesser-known artists take centre stage at Sydney’s biennial
With Frieze Masters on the horizon, this summer’s Old Master and antiques fairs have been working on their identities
Features
The Barnes Foundation galleries, relocated to downtown Philadelphia, walk a fine line between nostalgia and modernity
The Barnes Foundation galleries, relocated to downtown Philadelphia, walk a fine line between nostalgia and modernity
The battle for the Barnes pitted academic purists against wealthy populists
Artists exploring controversial themes are flourishing in a corner of conservative Gujarat—but they can pay a high price
A new publication shows how depictions of Elizabeth II have changed over the past 60 years - from the remoteness and splendour of her early reign to later pictures portraying her as “one of us”. With Freud and Warhol she has even became contemporary art
The artist’s solo show at the Beyeler this month includes new films starring a black garden and a robotic Marilyn Monroe
Whether he is creating a handbag or a power station, Thomas Heatherwick aims “to do what hasn’t been done before”
How the Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk combines fiction and fact in the Museum of Innocence
A forthcoming exhibition uses an unprecedented combination of scholarship and science to reveal the touch of a master
A new film recounts the artist’s decades of arduous performances—and reveals a charming woman beneath the steely surface
How Winfred Rembert made a life outside jail as an artist
Museums
The philanthropists Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker donate works by David Hockney, Lucian Freud, R.B. Kitaj, Peter Doig and George Shaw
The list of antiquities demanded gets longer as more exhibitions are hit by the loans boycott
Fears grow for nation’s heritage as budgets halved, galleries shut and salaries cut
The Tate says all detailed entries will be available online by 2014, but critics fear loss of scholarship
Scotland springs a surprise on London with second touring exhibition
Visitors could make small, instant donations on mobile phones
The museum is offering its expertise in exchange for the loan of works of cultural heritage
Barceló and Flanagan to the fore
Cyclists likely to go around Amsterdam museum when it finally reopens in 2013
Museums gain millions while other regions suffer cuts
Site of Museum of Modern Art to be temporary McDonald’s
Plans narrowly rejected in vote but Green Party leaves wriggle room for disappointed mayor
High-rise vision for first national contemporary art space comes with a $161m price tag
Prime minister backs museum of the Great Terror
Institution’s debts rise to €650,000
Tasneem Mehta, the director of the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, builds international links
Art reflects islands’ economic growth
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