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Wednesday 8 Feb 12
Leonardo-mania officially ends at 10pm on Sunday 5 February—at least as far as London is concerned. That is when the National Gallery’s “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” will close its doors. Gone will be the early-morning queues shivering in the winter gloom of Trafalgar Square.... >>>
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We suggest the city looks for other sources of revenue, allowing cultural institutions to continue to do what we do best >>>
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The financial turmoil has been an incentive rather than a barrier for the wealthy to buy art >>>
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There is a fascinating resonance between the wild, ambitious idealism that once inspired Tatlin’s tower, and the 'remarkable, miraculous, limitless possibility of thinking' that has inspired the development Saadiyat Island >>>
The ministry is now looking at ‘cryptic provenances’ such as ‘Swiss private collection, 1980s’ >>>
Arts and science are similar in that they are expressions of what it is to be human in this world >>>
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The most basic element of accessibility [for museums] is to be open for as long as possible, to allow as many people as possible to visit >>>
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The attacks on the twin towers have lent a kind of retrospective aura to a complex which, before it was destroyed, was less than popular >>>
Where can an object which was created as a pointer to the “transcendent mystery of God” be best experienced in “faith and adoration” today? >>>
The national museums should be encouraged to market the rest of Britain through their collections >>>
It might be time to rethink where growth will come from instead of justifying the status quo >>>
----As Italy’s new technocratic government struggled to its feet, 100 financiers, entrepreneurs, collectors, curators, dealers and academics gathered in Florence for a private conference on the future of art and finance >>>
Some in the US museum world take the view that the Italian authorities should take advantage of the apparent truce >>>
From 2013 China will have a declining working population… but India’s will grow for 30 years >>>
The Visual Artists Rights Act does protect America’s site-specific work, despite recent rulings >>>
As research from the last crisis shows, when investor confidence evaporates, all assets start to correlate, something many art market insiders like to forget >>>
The St Cuthbert Gospel's joint custody agreement is a small contribution to making the world a safer, more civilised place >>>
It’s up to organisations, public and private, corporate and cultural, to provide creative opportunities for young people >>>
To adapt to an increasingly competitive market, dealers have expanded the channels through which they sell works >>>
