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No one would argue that removing statues of the sex criminal is “cancelling culture”, yet this logic is routinely used to defend monuments of slavers, argues one of The Art Newspaper's readers
Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact
While the 2008 global financial meltdown largely failed to dent sales, in 2015 our editor-at-large warned that the falling oil price experienced at the time could prove much more serious
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
The estate of Joseph Beuys has brought the Museum Schloss Moyland to court over photographs of Beuys' performance art
After a decade of acclaim, will its triumph be topped by Tate Modern 2?
'History is unpredictable, and we cannot know which obscure artist or minor exhibition may once be regarded as a groundbreaking historical event'
Since the late 1990s there has been a strong push towards provenance research of collections and museums, and restitution of items that were looted or taken by the Nazis during their period of power
The current drop in activity may be healthy for the sustainability of the future art market
A letter to the editor
In 2007 the economist James Sproule examined the risks facing the market—and the good news was it was not all doom and gloom
There is a danger that money will trump knowledge, observed the New York dealer in 2007
In 2007 the creative industries consultant noted that the “insider” aspect of the contemporary art market and hierarchy of knowledge and status that it creates was a significant part of its attraction
Adrian Ellis, director of AEA Consulting, talks on the threat this poses to the perceived legitimacy of cultural institutions
The British Art Market Federation chairman on Artists' Resale Right representing a serious challenge to market competitiveness in 2005
How a historical work of art loses its past
How the Condé Nast-published art magazine expresses the current merging of consumption values and art
Why “cultural diversity” arts policies are condescending and do not enlarge the understanding of other cultures
One of the British Museum's finest treasures may depict a notoriously licentious Roman emperor
A response to critic Andrew Graham-Dixon’s opinions on the power of images as expounded in his current BBC tv series
In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.
Laws now are obsessed with the objects rather than the sites
Are we right to be so admiring of the work currently exhibited at the Tate