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Turning a museum into a vanity space

The Annual Art AwardsPrivate-collector exhibitions (Archive)

Letters to the editor (Archive)

The recession (Archive)

News

Shaun Gladwell sets off for Afghanistan as Australia’s official war artist (Archive)

Maya Lin supports Bloomberg re-election (Archive)

Moscow surprises everybody with biennale hit (Archive)

Are there too many art world awards? (Archive)

Abramovic presents “laboratory” in Plymouth (Archive)

Spanish queen duped Pope with dud Murillo

Polke windows revealed (Archive)

US Supreme Court grills public prosecutor in animal cruelty vs freedom of artistic expression case (Archive)

Veteran of Bosnia sells off his sketches (Archive)

Art theft or insurance scam? The latest case (Archive)

First reports from Sumatra earthquake

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Fourth Bucharest Biennale team assembled, led by 22-year-old curator (Archive)

Italy’s Terna 02 prizes awarded (Archive)

Abramovic presents “laboratory” in Plymouth (Archive)

Basque region plans Guggenheim Bilbao II (Archive)

Critics angry at treatment of Munch (Archive)

Final question remains in ten-year case between US and Austria (Archive)

Big names line up for hotel (Archive)

Charitable giving at risk in US (Archive)

Zlín: a modernist utopia back on the map (Archive)

Chicago’s leading light of visual arts retires (Archive)

China steps in to censor works of art (Archive)

Provenance mystery of Courtauld’s Procuress (Archive)

Samurai subverted (Archive)

Swedish government to stop artist grants (Archive)

The Station to stage second show in New York (Archive)

Indian artist plans art centre (Archive)

In memoriam (Archive)

comings and goings (Archive)

Interpol’s online database is incomplete (Archive)

First reports from earthquake zone (Archive)

Provenance mystery of Courtauld’s Procuress (Archive)

In the frame (Archive)

Museums

Malevich and Kandinsky in 3D (Archive)

But Eliasson’s rooftop show goes ahead (Archive)

Unesco puts stop to Stockholm library extension (Archive)

Head of antiquities accuses museum of overlooking weak provenance (Archive)

Performance art on show in Düsseldorf (Archive)

Designs on the Mall (Archive)

Artists picked for Rome’s new Maxxi museum (Archive)

Pressure grows on Southampton to drop sale of works (Archive)

Jumex contemporary collection on the road (Archive)

Dispute over who gets to design Munch museum (Archive)

Controversy over New Museum's plans to show trustee’s collection

Berlin’s Neues Museum rises from the ashes (Archive)

New Museum to show trustee’s collection (Archive)

Munich’s Schack-Galerie reopens (Archive)

New evidence in Nazi loot case against MoMA (Archive)

Contemporary art boost for Transylvania (Archive)

Iran chides British Museum (Archive)

Indian artist reveals big plans in Doha (Archive)

Copenhagen gallery back on track (Archive)

Grand restoration (Archive)

Italy’s civil case against Getty’s bronze youth (Archive)

Musée d’Orsay’s loan fees spark row (Archive)

Acquisitions (Archive)

“I don’t understand the commotion over contemporary art at our museum” (Archive)

Denmark’s Aros museum in dire financial trouble (Archive)

Guggenheim Bilbao, part II

Copenhagen gallery back on track (Archive)

Boros’s bunker: before and after (Archive)

“I want to add a new complexity to everything we do” (Archive)

Dutch banker’s magic realist collection seized (Archive)

Ashmolean bridges the cultural divide (Archive)

Market

Coordinated effort for galleries on 57th Street (Archive)

A surprise show of strength (Archive)

Florence antiques fair celebrates 50th anniversary with success (Archive)

Big names keep sales on track (Archive)

Distress sale for Dutch financier Reijtenbagh (Archive)

Art Albertina has quiet first edition (Archive)

Christie’s launches bespoke insurance service (Archive)

“We didn’t expect it to be as lively as it is” (Archive)

Fragments of African figure reunited (Archive)

French modernism wins out over contemporary (Archive)

united kingdom (Archive)

Art Basel Miami Beach ever hopeful

Photography stays steady in the storm (Archive)

Validity of verbal deals under disput (Archive)

Art Albertina has quiet first edition (Archive)

Tsekh gallery’s new space in central Ukraine (Archive)

The battle for London’s June fairs (Archive)

Top quality old masters under the hammer next month (Archive)

Vienna Design Week pulls international crowd (Archive)

Qatar museum takes on all comers in Islamic sales (Archive)

Disgraced Madoff investor’s Rothkos to Moscow (Archive)

The fair that goes from strength to strength (Archive)

Contemporary market squeezed (Archive)

Is Paris the place to be? (Archive)

In the trade (Archive)

Signs of recovery at Haughtons’ New York fair (Archive)

Sotheby’s Australia bought by Bonhams man (Archive)

Florence antiques fair celebrates 50th anniversary with success (Archive)

Bankrupt dealer’s collection auctioned (Archive)

Steve Cohen withdraws from Sotheby’s (Archive)

Art Albertina has quiet first edition (Archive)

Faith in sculpture (Archive)

Munich revisited: Modern09 scales down (Archive)

“America is always the driving force in the art world. You cannot successfully and healthily exist without America” (Archive)

Features

Tim Burton as great as Warhol, says MoMA (Archive)

Curators? Bruce can’t be bothered with them (Archive)

The man who puts art centre stage (Archive)

The desire for beauty is in our DNA (Archive)

A global artist with global concerns (Archive)

Auction houses encroach on gallery territory with shift to private sales (Archive)

The season for comebacks (Archive)

Conservation

Bard’s burial at risk (Archive)

Roman builders leave their mark (Archive)

Technology reveals Caravaggio self-portrait (Archive)

Mellon Foundation grant for Chicago museum (Archive)

Fracas at ancient caves… (Archive)

World Monuments Watch List 2010 (Archive)

Ambassador’s Fund provides over $2m to international cultural heritage projects (Archive)

Illuminating a masterpiece (Archive)

MoMA celebrates film preservation (Archive)

World Monuments Watch List 2010 (Archive)

Books

New light on the Spanish School (Archive)

The unsung glories of Croatian art and culture

An act of adulatory identification (Archive)

This is not a drawing (Archive)

Animating the inanimate, stilling the animate (Archive)

An artist who outlived himself? (Archive)

Going native, standing aloof and gone to seed (Archive)

Modern architecture—a con-trick and a cult? (Archive)

Painter in pain—the biography of Benjamin Robert Haydon (Archive)

Body art: where beauty is literally skin-deep

The unsung glories of Croatian art and culture (Archive)

Much more than a flower painter (Archive)

Pontius Pilate—from indifference to hostility (Archive)

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