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Putin hands over contested books to Moscow’s Jewish Museum

The Russian president says he hopes the legal conflict over the collection will be resolved, but Brooklyn Chabad group disagrees

Published online: 19 June 2013

 
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Spain to consider reduction on culture tax

Following comments from the president of Extremadura, the country’s culture minister says he is open to reviewing unusually high VAT rate

Published online: 19 June 2013

Venice 1, tourist tat 0

Italy’s new culture minister, Massimo Bray, has won a small but symbolic victory with the removal of a cheap tourist shop below St Mark’s bell tower

Published online: 18 June 2013

Nicholas Serota joins Companions of Honour in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Other honourees include Grayson Perry, Anish Kapoor and Thomas Heatherwick

Published online: 17 June 2013

Royal Academy in talks with potential Moscow partner

The institution also wants to co-organise the arts programme of a planned centre in Hong Kong

Published online: 14 June 2013

Monaco’s Picasso show under fire

Concerns have been raised about a show of works drawn from the Nahmad family collection

Published online: 14 June 2013

Wobbly welcome to Sunnylands

It is quite a week for Sunnylands, the former winter home in southern California of Walter Annenberg, the late art collector, media tycoon...

Tan-tastic bash

The marble halls of the Grand Hyatt rang with the sound of the Modern Media Group and the K11 Art Foundation’s revellers. Thomas Shao, the...

Ai on stage

It is rare that trips to the bathroom are the stuff of high-quality drama, but in “#aiww: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei”, a play that covers the...

 

Jean Tinguely in motion

This week the Museum Tinguely, Basel, takes a fresh look at the kinetic artist's work and ideas, launching a catalogue of its collection alongside the show "Tinguely@Tinguely" (7 November-30 September 2013). A short and highly animated film about the artist made in 1960.