News
After the party, the hangover: art stars Koons, Hirst and Murakami lose their shine
Despite a lavish, 300-page book and a high-profile presentation, strong doubts remain
Multi-venue project aims to inject French contemporary art into Southern California
Why museums are making performance and dance the focal point of exhibitions
Creative Time Summit sees last-minute walkout
Spencer Tunick to create work at notorious National Stadium
The contemporary versus trad and kitsch battle is being fought out all over the UK, while major commissions are in the offing
Artist upset by Games’ ceremonial hillock, which he says resembles his spiral mound
Were they payment-in-kind to the masons?
Germany will continue the tradition it started and other pavilions will show foreign talent in 2013
Museums, researchers and academics invited to contribute
Polish art dealer Rafael Jablonka commissions work for his property in Austria—but doesn't plan on moving in
Artist’s great-granddaughter wants the work moved
China’s imminent Politburo change and a vast new venue were just two of the challenges facing the organisers
Art Market
Joint director takes overall control of fairs
On the great art Monopoly board, Americans are moving in, Cork Street is in crisis and Victoria is on the up
Art fund launches at Viennafair, Russian businessman has money in both
Old Masters had a hard time at Frieze Masters, but Modern works fared well
Hirst, Prince and Warhol go begging, while Richter breaks record
But sales were stronger despite fears that this market will always follow the whims of a few powerful buyers
Palestinian protest paintings fail to sell on eBay, spend a season in the Hamptons and are now heading for Florida fair
Ruling goes against dealer’s heirs and others who alleged Nazi looting
Brazil, once the rising star, has seen virtually no growth so far this year. And its tax regime does the art market no favours whatsoever
Dealers rejoice as French government backtracks on art tax, while collectors almost cause a stampede
The co-founder of Yahoo is showing part of his Chinese calligraphy collection in San Francisco
Prices are high but understanding it means doing some homework
Books
The history and scholarship of art forgery, and a faker’s delighted account of a life of deception
The stained glass of Rheims Cathedral and how it influenced later Gothic windows
A much needed survey of the arts under the Mamluk Sultans
Isabella d’Este was not satisfied with an objet d’art and a drawing; she was determined to have Leonardo da Vinci paint her portrait
A superb, all-encompassing life of the great painter
This catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the pre-Raphaelite artist’s career for half a century
Research results in rich life stories of Bernini, Costanza Piccolomini and Cardinal Camillo Massimo
The life and works of J.B. Fischer von Erlach
A history of the city’s squares
The last view of beautiful tribes whose lands will soon disappear
Comment
The new English schools examination system will marginalise the arts
Cuts are deeper than expected, and heritage and the visual arts are bearing the brunt of them
The director of Performa, RoseLee Goldberg, asks what took curators so long to catch on to live art?
Conservation
A newly conserved 50m frieze on show in Vienna painted for the Holy Roman Emperor
State promises €5m but damage is billions
Conserving works made from unusual materials is a tough task—and artists often have conflicting views on how to do it
Exhibitions
The Pompidou displays the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí as the forerunner of performance art, in a layout inspired by his work
Tate Modern shows that painting and performance are not polar opposites, but have a long history of interaction
The Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin shows works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme collection
The Richard Harris Collection of the macabre explores the art, objects and rituals of our inescapable end
The Royal Collection sets its own boundaries in an exhibition of Northern Renaissance works
Saatchi’s shows of contemporary Russian and Soviet-era works reveal the country’s artistic exodus
How the American Civil War made artists ask tough questions
Three San Diego museums survey American art
Benin waited more than 50 years since its independence for a biennial, and now it has two
Francis Bacon’s Australian roots
The UK artist’s first solo museum show in the Americas focuses on early video works
Features
The veteran Conceptualist, showing in London this month, uses text as just another material. And he doesn’t like being called a Conceptualist, either
Some conservationists say Unesco is toothless and penniless and has become too political.
A new film reveals the complex, lengthy set-up that takes place before the photographer Gregory Crewdson takes each shot
Focus
£10,000 is a high price in Moscow, and a secondary market barely exists.
How a group of dissident artists was almost catapulted to international stardom. By Kira Sapgir
After the fall of the Soviet regime, the regulation style of heroic and sentimental portraits and scenes sold by the yard. By Souria Sadekov
Half a million or so Russians now prefer to live in and around London
Museums
Seven works stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam as overnight protection fails
The director of the National Gallery on many contemporary artists’ inflated reputations and the folly of the Fourth Plinth commissions
Festival organisers claim more than 3 million people visited a show of sporting medals
Broad Museum opens, putting international relations to the fore
Monographic rooms, chronological hang and extra space shaped like a “bathtub”
Opening of new Astrup Fearnley increases pressure to make a decision in Oslo
Latest phase of Modern art wing includes temporary displays of work by Goya and instruments of torture
Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen-Bornemisza face deep cuts
Outrage in Sicily as show cancelled because of satyr’s visit to London’s Royal Academy
Soviet-era unofficial artists and videos are on the centre’s agenda
Obituary
Flying-ace father, French Resistance activist, TV producer and British aristocrat… it was a life that even the most accomplished writer of popular fiction would have struggled to invent
TAN2
More international dealers have been invited to take part this year
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