opinion

Curatorial misconceptions (Archive)

Tough times will provide opportunities

Artists should have same tax deductions as collectors when donating works of art

The Sutherland Titians (Archive)

The new agreement to pay fees for exhibitions will not change Swedish artists’ living conditions (Archive)

News

Judge overturns artist’s rights ruling (Archive)

Auction houses embark on damage limitation exercise as market slumps

A Moscow power-player aged just 23 (Archive)

“I did it!” Scream thief confesses in work of art (Archive)

New appeals lodged in court battle over Gustav Rau’s art collection (Archive)

Latin America’s big biennial at risk

Police arrest suspect in stolen miniatures case (Archive)

Byzantine delays (Archive)

The glittering prizes (Archive)

In memoriam (Archive)

comings and goings (Archive)

Protest over advertising in St Mark's Square, Venice

Tussle over Gelman Collection (Archive)

Swedish spies lose copyright case (Archive)

US embassy moves to Battersea, south of river (Archive)

Georgia and Russia rattle their sabres over war damage

Row over Little Mermaid move

Qatar will share flask with V&A in London

Senate ratifies the Hague Convention 54 years after it was first signed (Archive)

Flesh new work (Archive)

Art centre opens on site of closed drug-running tunnel (Archive)

In the frame (Archive)

Ex-art student becomes culture minister (Archive)

GCCC and Museum of Tolerance: no conflict (Archive)

First the head, now the foot of Marcus Aurelius (Archive)

Orphan works bill stalls on Capitol Hill (Archive)

Billionaire’s wife will open (another) contemporary gallery in (another) Melnikov bus garage

Museums

Francesco Bonami defends his “40 years of Italian art”

Terrorism exhibition cancelled (Archive)

Pontormo discovery loaned to National Gallery (Archive)

Qatar ready for Islamic Art (Archive)

New discoveries in America’s oldest public collection of drawings

Wadsworth exhibits private furniture collection destined for the market

Palais de Tokyo project stalled until 2011 (Archive)

Virginia rehang (Archive)

Artists to be paid if work appears in state-funded shows (Archive)

University’s Pollock saved from sale (Archive)

Tate secures Rubens oil sketch…just (Archive)

Ethiopia moves for Maqdala treasures (Archive)

Proa Foundation’s grand reopening (Archive)

Art fund created in honour of late gallerist (Archive)

Stockholm’s Moderna Museet expands southwards (Archive)

Dresden takes provenance research to Russia (Archive)

Singapore’s National Art Gallery to expand (Archive)

Museums’ volte-face on Nazi spoils amid marbles fears (Archive)

Why the Tate turned down Rothko’s offer of 30 paintings (Archive)

Autonomy for Metz satellite (Archive)

Local boy makes good—and comes home (Archive)

Major donation to Louisiana Museum (Archive)

Tehran’s mystery space (Archive)

Chinese treasures to go to Britain? (Archive)

Beijing plans major museum (Archive)

Piano’s plans for Kimbell (Archive)

market

Haunch RA move stalled (Archive)

African-American art steps out of the shadows (Archive)

Twentieth-century Italian art defies the falling market (Archive)

After years of growth, a long way to fall?

Fiac puts the squeeze on Frieze (Archive)

What recession? London gets new contemporary spaces (Archive)

Aboriginal art auction hit by economic woes (Archive)

Dealer sets up company to fund artists’ production

“Blue-chip still sought” (Archive)

Back story: John and Carlton Hobbs (Archive)

Reprieve for UBS banker in tax fraud case (Archive)

“Hot” categories cool rapidly as crisis bites

From up to down in just 23 days (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Contemporary Chinese art levels off (Archive)

sound bites (Archive)

Difficult timing for autumn events (Archive)

Currency conversion and auction prices (Archive)

Christie’s has “worst Islamic sale in 17 years” (Archive)

Australia sets out artists’ resale right scheme (Archive)

What goes up... (Archive)

Boomerang “collected by Captain Cook” withdrawn by Christie’s (Archive)

The Italian renaissance (Archive)

Kulik images impounded as ‘pornography’ at Fiac

Lower-priced works succeed at Art Singapore (Archive)

Don’t judge a sale by its (catalogue) cover: Richter and Murakami can’t stop the slide (Archive)

Banksy bombs (Archive)

Features

Balthus at 100: a celebration (Archive)

“I never thought there would be an audience for my work”

Artists at the London Film Festival (Archive)

Has the Louvre gone Latin? (Archive)

Rising from the ashes in the hands of Anthony Caro (Archive)

Very big boys and their expensive, shiny toys (Archive)

How did Italy get so ugly?

No sing-a-long with Sam (Archive)

Conservation

Peralta set to unveil ancient monuments (Archive)

Dispute over risk to Christian shrine

Greek graffiti artists target historic sites (Archive)

Books

Giving a context to the art of Venice (Archive)

A la recherche des peintures perdues (Archive)

Baroque and Régence in California (Archive)

Fun, failures and frightening folks (Archive)

All roads to enlightenment lead to Rome (Archive)

The who, what and where of Gillows of Lancaster (Archive)

How printing put paid to the non-existent druids (Archive)

The magnificent history of Mantuan patronage (Archive)

Visions of Babylon—and beyond

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