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Brand names slip as market starts to correct Free
After the party, the hangover: art stars Koons, Hirst and Murakami lose their shine
Street art show grows in global ambition
Cartoonists fight Assad’s regime with the pen
Titian turns up in a Spanish church
Elusive smile, elusive artist: is this really by Leonardo?
Despite a lavish, 300-page book and a high-profile presentation, strong doubts remain
LA says ‘bienvenue’ to French artists Free
Multi-venue project aims to inject French contemporary art into Southern California
Sculpture is driving force behind new film
Come and join the dance Free
Why museums are making performance and dance the focal point of exhibitions
Artists boycott New York forum over Israeli link
Creative Time Summit sees last-minute walkout
We will not forget Pinochet’s victims
Spencer Tunick to create work at notorious National Stadium
Caught on camera: a Buenos Aires “shakedown”
The wrong sort of sculpture?
The contemporary versus trad and kitsch battle is being fought out all over the UK, while major commissions are in the offing
Olympic show ‘rip-off’ claim
Artist upset by Games’ ceremonial hillock, which he says resembles his spiral mound
Mystery of the Frieze Masters gargoyles
Were they payment-in-kind to the masons?
Taking to the floor at MoMA
Nations less wedded to their artists at the Venice Biennale
Germany will continue the tradition it started and other pavilions will show foreign talent in 2013
Rembrandt database gets a mixed reception at launch
Museums, researchers and academics invited to contribute
Controversial cover-up by the Leopold Museum
Curtains for Hockney at the Vienna State Opera
Thomas Schütte builds a home for terrorists in the Tyrol Free
Polish art dealer Rafael Jablonka commissions work for his property in Austria—but doesn't plan on moving in
Disharmony over Signac painting
Artist’s great-granddaughter wants the work moved
Plans for Gehry-designed centre in Arles to be resubmitted
In the frame
Prizes
Shanghai Biennial breaks the speed limit Free
China’s imminent Politburo change and a vast new venue were just two of the challenges facing the organisers
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Art Market
Spiegler in sole charge of Basel
Joint director takes overall control of fairs
The London gallery shuffle Free
On the great art Monopoly board, Americans are moving in, Cork Street is in crisis and Victoria is on the up
Christie’s sues Chinese rival over similar name
Two-way stake in Vienna
Art fund launches at Viennafair, Russian businessman has money in both
In the Trade
Growing pains as Frieze expands
Old Masters had a hard time at Frieze Masters, but Modern works fared well
Flurry of sales at Sunday
PAD stands its ground
Moniker is on trend
Multiplied for the masses
More serious art appeals at auction
Hirst, Prince and Warhol go begging, while Richter breaks record
Islamic sales prove unpredictable
But sales were stronger despite fears that this market will always follow the whims of a few powerful buyers
Off the wall: Banksy murals move from West Bank to Miami
Palestinian protest paintings fail to sell on eBay, spend a season in the Hamptons and are now heading for Florida fair
Knoedler saga rumbles on
Seven-year Schiele case is concluded in court
Ruling goes against dealer’s heirs and others who alleged Nazi looting
Works on paper were chased
Is the coffee economy grinding to a halt? Free
Brazil, once the rising star, has seen virtually no growth so far this year. And its tax regime does the art market no favours whatsoever
Peru art fairs clash
A bullish atmosphere at Fiac
Dealers rejoice as French government backtracks on art tax, while collectors almost cause a stampede
The writing goes on the walls
The co-founder of Yahoo is showing part of his Chinese calligraphy collection in San Francisco
Calligraphy: desirable and demanding
Prices are high but understanding it means doing some homework
Mainland Chinese slow down at Hong Kong sales
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Books
The fake’s progress
The history and scholarship of art forgery, and a faker’s delighted account of a life of deception
First at the bar
The stained glass of Rheims Cathedral and how it influenced later Gothic windows
Another renaissance
A much needed survey of the arts under the Mamluk Sultans
The Master and the Marchesa
Isabella d’Este was not satisfied with an objet d’art and a drawing; she was determined to have Leonardo da Vinci paint her portrait
Titian and his times
A superb, all-encompassing life of the great painter
Ford Madox Brown’s moment
This catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the pre-Raphaelite artist’s career for half a century
A portrait of Rome in four biographies
Research results in rich life stories of Bernini, Costanza Piccolomini and Cardinal Camillo Massimo
The dynamism of oblique angles in architecture
The life and works of J.B. Fischer von Erlach
The rectangular aspect of London
A history of the city’s squares
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved
The last view of beautiful tribes whose lands will soon disappear
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Comment
Go to the back of the class
The new English schools examination system will marginalise the arts
Tough, yes, but is it fair?
Cuts are deeper than expected, and heritage and the visual arts are bearing the brunt of them
The performance era is now Free
The director of Performa, RoseLee Goldberg, asks what took curators so long to catch on to live art?
Letters
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Conservation
At the movies with Maximilian I Free
A newly conserved 50m frieze on show in Vienna painted for the Holy Roman Emperor
MoMA shows Nixon’s home movies
Historic Syrian mosque is shelled amid fighting
Italy struggles to repair region ruined by quake
State promises €5m but damage is billions
Mind your own beeswax?
Conserving works made from unusual materials is a tough task—and artists often have conflicting views on how to do it
Prize-winning projects feature lasers and CSI
Our pick of the papers presented in Vienna
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Exhibitions
In by an egg, out by a brain
The Pompidou displays the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí as the forerunner of performance art, in a layout inspired by his work
Drip, drag and drape: paint in motion
Tate Modern shows that painting and performance are not polar opposites, but have a long history of interaction
Hirst’s ancients and moderns
The Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin shows works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme collection
Say cheese
Raphael’s prep work
Go through Death’s door in Euston with an enthusiast
The Richard Harris Collection of the macabre explores the art, objects and rituals of our inescapable end
When a collection defines style terms and dates
The Royal Collection sets its own boundaries in an exhibition of Northern Renaissance works
Middle Eastern turmoil photographed
Musicians at the museum
A performance with no performers
Chicago comes to London
The Russian artists who fled
Saatchi’s shows of contemporary Russian and Soviet-era works reveal the country’s artistic exodus
The very long way back to Paradise
How the American Civil War made artists ask tough questions
What it is to be American
Three San Diego museums survey American art
War in pictures
The smell of success
Putting art back into golf
West African biennials begin with bitter battles
Benin waited more than 50 years since its independence for a biennial, and now it has two
Bacon down under
Francis Bacon’s Australian roots
Emin shows her moves in Argentina
The UK artist’s first solo museum show in the Americas focuses on early video works
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Features
Anthony Haden-Guest’s diary
Louisa Buck london diary
Lawrence Weiner: man of his word Free
The veteran Conceptualist, showing in London this month, uses text as just another material. And he doesn’t like being called a Conceptualist, either
World Heritage at 40: success or mess?
Some conservationists say Unesco is toothless and penniless and has become too political.
Not such a brief encounter Free
A new film reveals the complex, lengthy set-up that takes place before the photographer Gregory Crewdson takes each shot
Film-maker Mekas celebrates 90th birthday in style
Eliasson’s latest weather project
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Focus
Contemporary art: fashionable with the few
£10,000 is a high price in Moscow, and a secondary market barely exists.
Bluffer’s guide
The Non-Conformists: the story of a marketing error
How a group of dissident artists was almost catapulted to international stardom. By Kira Sapgir
A brief history of the rise, fall and rise of Socialist Realism
After the fall of the Soviet regime, the regulation style of heroic and sentimental portraits and scenes sold by the yard. By Souria Sadekov
Leonid Shishkin and the market for Socialist Realism
Shalva Breus
Leonid Friedland
Nonna Materkova
Russian Directory
Zurab Tsereteli
Aidan Salakhova
Igor Tsukanov
Marat Guelman
Sergey Skaterschikov
Moscow on the Thames Free
Half a million or so Russians now prefer to live in and around London
Olga Sviblova
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Museums
Thieves foil high-tech security
Seven works stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam as overnight protection fails
Stolen art that’s still missing
Opening this month
‘People have fooled themselves’
The director of the National Gallery on many contemporary artists’ inflated reputations and the folly of the Fourth Plinth commissions
Rothko’s children condemn vandalism
Tate spreads acquisition net to India and Russia
Who massaged the Cultural Olympiad visitor figures?
Festival organisers claim more than 3 million people visited a show of sporting medals
The V&A rocks its Gothic cradle
Wellcome Collection to expand and sex up
Luton’s stolen jug recovered in Surrey
Sale of £2m Egyptian statue delayed
Director aims to bring the world to Michigan Free
Broad Museum opens, putting international relations to the fore
MoMA to open seven days a week—and the Met might too
Fifty years of Met scholarship goes online
Los Angeles art TV comes with added bonus
Acquisitions
Scenes from the new Stedelijk
Monographic rooms, chronological hang and extra space shaped like a “bathtub”
Van Gogh Museum goes the extra mile
Politicians dither over new home for Munch
Opening of new Astrup Fearnley increases pressure to make a decision in Oslo
Dresden asks public to help restore painting
Frankfurt museum closes for radical redesign
Hell comes to the Hermitage, Chapman brothers style Free
Latest phase of Modern art wing includes temporary displays of work by Goya and instruments of torture
Austerity pain shared in Spain
Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen-Bornemisza face deep cuts
The bronze that got away (temporarily)
Outrage in Sicily as show cancelled because of satyr’s visit to London’s Royal Academy
Collector turns Constructivist cinema into Moscow art space
Soviet-era unofficial artists and videos are on the centre’s agenda
As Garage Center expands, another garage is transformed
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Obituary
Nicole, Duchess of Bedford
Flying-ace father, French Resistance activist, TV producer and British aristocrat… it was a life that even the most accomplished writer of popular fiction would have struggled to invent
In Memoriam
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TAN2
Asian art week looks beyond London
More international dealers have been invited to take part this year
International fairs
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