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Issue 243 - February 2013
News
Sales halve at China’s leading auction houses
Demand plummets as economic growth slows, but business picks up in the US
LA director to rehang Pinault’s art
Sweet factory could be Moscow’s Tate Modern
Chinese artefacts targeted at British Museum
What now for the £45 Da Vinci?
Dallas museum fails to raise $100m to buy the authenticated Salvator Mundi, until recently believed to be a mediocre copy
Cases in the courts
Several ongoing cases are testing the US’s authority over foreign governments
Jenack to appeal ruling on sellers’ identities
Tax deal chips away at arts donations
Congress has avoided the fiscal cliff, but museum groups fear that changes to charity tax law will deter wealthy benefactors
Raise your own cash, House tells arts bodies
London riots get tied up in knots
Marc Quinn has turned a defining image of the violence and looting into a tapestry
The art world in the new year honours list
Tintoretto attribution
How to stop a thief
Court orders for anti-social behaviour, or Asbos, are one option for heritage organisations
Bromley claims Moore’s East End sculpture
Arts Council’s new chief
Munch curator slams 150th anniversary programme
Sicily forced to return grants
Michelangelo sculpture heads to jail
…despite vociferous opposition from art historians
Rem Koolhaas to direct architecture biennial
Bank to sell off works of art
Diplomat accused of smuggling
Are trains damaging cathedral?
Museum for Paris airport
Art history library reopens
Turkey says return objects or forget loans
Roman and Ottoman-era exhibitions will suffer as US and European museums face tougher calls for restitution
Art Market
Move over galleries: artists sign with agents
As Stuart Semple joins an agency that also represents models and musicians, is there a new way to sell art?
What next for Phillips?
Simon de Pury’s departure signals a change of direction after four patchy years
Timeline: From Phillips to Phillips
Music stops at Sotheby’s
China debates droit de suite
Some say it will stifle the market, others think it could stop fakes at auction
Court of appeal finds Christie’s in the wrong
French judge rules that auction house should not have collected droit de suite from buyers
Half-price home for £51.6m Qinglong vase
Droit de suite charges (European Economic Area)
Sotheby’s chief does it all
Bill Ruprecht has also taken on the role of chairman—but does this present a conflict of interest?
Couple wins Van Dyck case
Ownership of the painting had been contested by a Californian lawyer
US woodcarver gets first exhibition
Californian collectors hit by tax rise
Backing dealers for 50 years
The executive director of the Art Dealers Association of America on fairs, ethics and the calm after the storm
In brief
Fair overload continues apace
Markets are squeezed, collectors and dealers grumble and austerity bites, yet the expected slowdown in events has yet to materialise
Manuscript section opens at Brussels fair
Mass appeal helps fair find its niche
With a dynamic Art Projects section and works on offer from just £50, the London Art Fair shrugged off the snow
A new Pad in LA?
Books
A universal man only now coming into his own
The complete works of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in print and online
Gothic in all its expressions
The interaction of various disciplines in Italy and Northern Europe
Vasari’s fingerprints on art
Maiolica explained through the world’s greatest collection
This book, linked to a current exhibition, explores the V&A’s unrivalled holdings
Perthshire’s answer to the Ritz revealed
Portraits of a diverse selection of Scottish country houses
Lifting the lid on masters of metal, stone and glass
A study of Johann Christian Neuber’s snuffboxes and a survey of the Zilkha collection
Dickens’s instinct for art
His own artistic tastes were far from sophisticated, but his fiction inspired all kinds of artists
Bloomsbury before it was famous
A history of the neighbourhood and the educational, medical and cultural institutions that made it London’s intellectual quarter
Comment
Free entry can pay dividends
US museums in cities beyond tourist hot spots stand to gain far more than it costs by going free
The big hole in Britain’s National Gallery
The omission of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood could be rectified by judicious loans
Conservation
More shrines destroyed in Mali
As violence escalates, Unesco condemns militant Islamist rebels’ continuing attacks on cultural heritage in Timbuktu
Unknown drawings found in Dix’s home
Court reprieve for West Bank site
Menil’s major car wash
Museum discovers bright colours and bumper stickers while conserving Chamberlain’s car-metal sculptures
Icon’s Glasgow summit will address uncertainty
Judd museum to renovate its Chamberlain space
Diaries
Anthony Haden-Guest’s New York
Louisa Buck’s London
Exhibitions
Exhibition Listings
Focus
Less is more: the rise of the very limited edition
The days when Modernists saw design for mass production as the height of achievement are gone. By Glenn Adamson
From the architect’s chair…
Dreams that things are made of
Rafts of plastic jetsam, sun-powered laser fusion and bees being busy—all utilised to make items from the edge of designers’ imaginations
Five to watch
The designer as revolutionary
Andrea Branzi wrote the rules and set the standards for industrial design
More form than function
Design collectors have moved away from looking for a utilitarian purpose to the objects they buy
A renaissance in contemporary design
Modern pieces dominate the market, but confidence in new works is returning
New design fields: China
New design fields: the Middle East
Where to find the best objects in museums, auctions, fairs and galleries
Media
Up close and personal
Unprecedented access to Carolee Schneemann’s archive informs this portrait of the controversial, sometimes explicit, feminist artist
Tanaka’s Castle joins Japanese filmfest
DVD and online: Tunick’s nudes, Cage’s chess
Museums
Headcount tumbles at UK’s big museums
Government cuts take their toll as more than 120 posts are lost without fanfare in just two years
Royal portrait gets mixed reception
Rare Japanese cranes find new home in LA
Who opposed a £4,665 Lichtenstein?
Artists Barbara Hepworth and Andrew Forge and fellow Tate trustee Herbert Read did in 1966
Village church to sell off its heritage
V&A’s Dundee satellite shifts to dry land
Tate Modern attracts record number of visitors
US museums round up
Dallas Museum of Art adopts free-for-all policy
Scrapping admission fees and introducing an innovative members’ scheme attracts interest beyond Texas
Uffizi-Tokyo Da Vinci deal
A foreigner as next head of the Louvre?
Henri Loyrette will leave on a high note despite looming budget cuts
Institut du Monde Arabe called ‘dysfunctional’
Hermitage gets into bed with luxury hotel
Museum lends its name and acts as adviser but what it stands to gain financially is unclear
Red Square solution for Kremlin’s treasures
Museum lends art to Oslo hotel
Return of Vienna’s Kunstkammer
Humanity and Abu Dhabi’s museums
As the consortium that is to build the Louvre Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island is announced, artists and Human Rights Watch lobby again for workers’ rights, while an independent report demonstrates that outside pressure is causing the UAE to address the issue
Obituary
Géza Fehérvári
Hungarian émigré who played a leading role in the development
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