Opinion

De-accessioning and responsibility n By Charles Saumarez Smith (Archive)

The arguments for Section 48

De-accessioning and responsibility n By Charles Saumarez Smith (Archive)

The arguments against Section 48

US Supreme Court: US v Stevens n By Wayne Pacelle (Archive)

Letters to the editor (Archive)

The purposes of de-accessioning n By Giles Waterfield (Archive)

News

Battle rages over Dresden bridge (Archive)

Artists and academics fight animal rights activists in Supreme Court

Delvoye tower to get bigger (Archive)

When is a sculpture not a sculpture? (Archive)

Five trusts join up (Archive)

Sandy Nairne (Archive)

comings and goings (Archive)

Mitterrand mark two (Archive)

Fresh contest for reunification monument (Archive)

Banksy busts the box-office (Archive)

Still no plan for Prince’s house (Archive)

In The Frame (Archive)

Pinault, Saatchi…Lauro? (Archive)

In memoriam (Archive)

Could this masterpiece still be found? (Archive)

Germany’s cultural budget set for further rise (Archive)

Part of world’s oldest Bible found at ancient monastery (Archive)

Ai Weiwei assaulted (Archive)

Blunt: Art history made me into a Marxist (Archive)

Defence case continues (Archive)

Martin Parr to offer collection to nation

Franco Stella under fire (Archive)

New station brings out Calatrava’s artistic side (Archive)

Saints found in suburbs (Archive)

Gupta collector’s item (Archive)

Hunter becomes the game: my hour as a sculpture (Archive)

Court upholds conviction of antiquities dealer (Archive)

National Trust Scotland faces member revolt (Archive)

Museums

New storage system hampered efforts to rescue Dürers, Michelangelos (Archive)

China plans free entry to half its museums (Archive)

Threat to image libraries (Archive)

Royal Armouries calls in the army (Archive)

Oslo’s new Munch Museum to be scaled down (Archive)

“I am who I am. I’m not going to adopt a grand-style persona” (Archive)

Musée d’Orsay to overhaul upper galleries (Archive)

Accessions (Archive)

Farewell to forgeries (Archive)

MoMA tower to loom over Manhattan (Archive)

Relaunch for Belgian museum (Archive)

Southampton’s de-accessioning of two works would set “uncomfortable precedent” (Archive)

Thomas Campbell: “I am who I am. I’m not going to adopt a grand-style persona”

Major exhibitions planned for the Met (Archive)

Jeff Wall against Norwegian National Gallery move (Archive)

British Museum’s expansion plans in stasis (Archive)

Romania’s growing scene (Archive)

West Coast art in Germany (Archive)

Funding withdrawn in Venice and Milan (Archive)

Beijing and Taiwan in groundbreaking deal (Archive)

Russian fakes force closure of Finnish exhibition (Archive)

Overhaul of Tate Britain could begin early 2010 (Archive)

Prominent Transylvanian artists build archive (Archive)

Nazi resort transformed (Archive)

Market

New index and fund track post-war art (Archive)

Counting the cost (Archive)

Salzburg (Archive)

Sotheby’s shares surge (Archive)

In with the old, as tradition continues to attract investors (Archive)

sound bites (Archive)

Russian fund targets art for museums (Archive)

Appraisers see sharp rise in demand (Archive)

Contemporary still the weakest link (Archive)

YSL mark II (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Sotheby’s and Ritchies “divorce” (Archive)

London summer slot up for grabs (Archive)

Is “mythical” mask for sale? (Archive)

Old masters stay strong (Archive)

Monet show at Helly Nahmad (Archive)

Bergman at auction (Archive)

The big chill seeps through Chelsea (Archive)

Market shifts as top dealers reassess priorities (Archive)

Design Miami links with Arco—perhaps (Archive)

Impressionist and modernists’ mixed results (Archive)

Maastricht plans on paper (Archive)

Features

When the economy goes into recession, cases of insurance fraud shoot up. (Archive)

The luxuries of a vanished world (Archive)

Missing: Meyer’s mail to Dash’s grandma What Sotheby’s man had to say about Snow (Archive)

Simply bizarre (Archive)

“The Guernica of the credit crunch” By Louisa Buck (Archive)

Canvas on a landscape? That can’t be right… It all depends on the in-tent, of course (Archive)

High society (Archive)

Painting as an extreme sport (Archive)

Why paintings succeed where words fail

The most important collectors you’ve never heard of (Archive)

Power to the picture: how Che was transformed into a man for all people (Archive)

Belgium meets China (Archive)

Conservation

Van Gogh’s fingerprints discovered on a mistral work (Archive)

Santiago de Compostela prepares to stop the rot (Archive)

Exposing a medieval mosaic (Archive)

Government creates 68,000 jobs in heritage protection (Archive)

Porcelain: a British invention? (Archive)

New centre at Chinese caves (Archive)

Books

The secular high priest of realist mystical painting (Archive)

What, exactly, are you trying to say? (Archive)

Two Titans of Tuscany (Archive)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson—iconophobe (Archive)

Knickers in a twist (Archive)

Three generations and one lost painting (Archive)

The curly-headed master of Padua (Archive)

Thomas Eakins the liberal? Not necessarily… (Archive)

Strange but nearly true: life in the Boarding House (Archive)

What defines Middle Eastern art? (Archive)

Having it large, from big to bloated (Archive)

Pop art Peter perfectly pitched (Archive)

Strange but nearly true: life in the Boarding House (Archive)

How we got the loot back from the Nazis (Archive)

The Greta Garbo of Urbino (Archive)

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