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Issue 250 - October 2013
News
No one else but Hadid would do
AbEx fakes scandal silences the experts
Old Mecca falls, luxury hotels rise
Free Nelson Mandela
Syrian war’s devastating toll on antiquities
Unesco places major national heritage sites on danger list as ground combat, air strikes and looting reduce ancient settlements to rubble
Qatar museums shake-up
Controlling body restructured after new Emir begins rule
Who sued whom: the Knoedler lawsuits
Hunt for sultan uncovers an Ottoman village
Researchers believe Suleiman’s heart could have been buried at the newly discovered site
Married gay couples to get art tax breaks
Museums could benefit, as well as sponsors
Public arts funding falls
Getty diptych row
Art lawyer fraud claim
Stolen Matisse returns
Like a work? Get it on loan Free
Pittsburgh residents can now borrow art from their local library, thanks to the Carnegie International show
Swap shop
Devon church panel thefts: site had been targeted before
Security to be upgraded as it emerges that another seven 15th-century panels were previously stolen
UK-Russia culture plans
Home for kids’ art school
Midlands canals get art
Soviet Realist for London
Tatlin’s Tower, but a bit smaller
The stories that matter—at a glance
Mondrian studio discovered in copse
Miró found at art handlers
Radiation reveals Goya signature
Isenheim altarpiece to
Decorative arts president resigns
French artist to create fountains for Versailles
Artists fear for Istanbul show
Anti-government protests cast shadow over event
Brazilian exhibition proves far from spectacular
In the frame
Glittering prizes
Art Market
Emmanuel Perrotin enters the bear pit Free
Opening in New York may be the French gallerist’s bravest move yet
Art fund industry struggles to emerge from the gloom Free
A further seven funds have been abandoned and even the Fine Art Fund has disappointed
Quick turnaround is the key, says “acute” dealer
BolognaFiere back in Shanghai
SH Contemporary, which was cancelled this year, will return in 2014 with a new partner, director and name
In the Trade
Online database ranks private collectors
Emerging artists from Greater China up for new award
Expert spots stolen work sold by Sotheby’s
Jan Schoonhoven piece was known to have been taken but its name was changed
PAD London looks back—way back
Duelling selling shows at auction houses
Slicing up the Big Apple
Galleries scatter as rents rise and generations shift
America’s richest get even richer
Postcard from Rio: rain, taxes but still having a good time
ArtRio got off to a slow start, but dealers say the fair is getting better every year
Chicago’s identity issues
Renoir memorabilia sells with a clunk
Brisk business at top tribal fair
Art Copenhagen suffers as new rival succeeds
Mixed fortunes for first ArtInternational fair
Top tribal fair boxes
Bric countries beef up intellectual property laws
Brazil, Russia, India and China move to make copyright a priority in the internet age
New Russian institute to detect fakes in market
Round-up
Books
Fine finishes for French furniture history
An overview of the Rijksmuseum collections and the complete works of the 18th- and 19th-century cabinet-makers, Bellangé
Seals with approval
A catalogue certain to become an essential reference book
Sicily is at the centre
An anthology on the island’s Greek and Roman art and architecture defies conventional accounts
A simple object of complex claims
The political-cultural significance of the Cyrus Cylinder
Great Scott
The catalogue raisonné of William Scott puts truth before market value
Pompeii and Herculaneum when the ruins were new
How visitors in the 18th and 19th centuries understood the sites
Architectural largesse
The Gritella Collection shows the wealth and splendour of Turin’s buildings
Superb paintings badly served
Paul Troger, the leading Austrian Rococo decorative artist, needs a better book
The elder Pliny: the inventor of Renaissance art history
A richly illustrated volume examines the enduring and far-reaching influence of Pliny’s Natural History
The ‘why’ more than the ‘how’
In an age when “everyone is a photographer”, two new books consider photography’s position as an artistic medium
Steely determination
An chronicle of stone works and lime kilns joins the Bechers’ exhaustive documentation of heavy industry
In brief
Comment
Letters
Who’s in charge of Venice? No one
If the Serenissima is to survive, it needs an overarching authority with real teeth and money
Why the latest fakes will not affect the market
Secrecy favours the forgers
The unscrupulous will continue to take advantage of the art trade’s culture of secrecy
The legacy of Hirst’s great auction
The artist’s sale of his work five years ago set the tone for a new way to do business
Conservation
Burden’s war saved from brink Free
Conservators breathe new life into installation that the American artist wanted to destroy
Crowdsourcing funds mural restoration
Illegal building threatens Cairo’s heritage
Post-revolution chaos has heightened concern about loss of Egyptian capital’s historic fabric
Bright outlook for Lebanon’s frescoes
Mission to rescue a Turner
Trust asks public to help raise £2m for urgent restoration of weather-damaged villa near the Thames
Glossary to give conservators a common tongue
3D scanning recreates tomb of Henry VIII’s bastard son
Busts returned to former glory
Rediscovered tsarist portrait to be restored
Canary Islands cave sculpture still on hold
Domitian’s mosaics exposed
Diaries
Louisa Buck’sLondon
Anthony Haden-Guest’s New York
Exhibitions
He leapt the fence and created English taste
The multi-faceted William Kent
More than words
Coming attraction
How Fernand Léger found inspiration at the cinema
Ancient geography
Progressives in the picture
Famous avant-garde Austrian artists are the draw for turn-of-the-20th-century Viennese portraiture show
Classical, lewd, and loaded with attitude
Painting by numbers
Purposeful destruction
Tate Britain traces the driving forces and ideologies behind a 500-year history of smashing art
Come on in, make yourself at home
Elmgreen & Dragset install a house at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Polish Pop
Saudi superstar
Parental advisory at the British Museum
The jewel’s setting in the crown
Dürer’s genius becomes even more evident when his work is shown alongside his contemporaries
Parreno gets carte blanche
First impressions of a Modernist
Malevich’s years as a radical Suprematist were framed by Impressionism
Eyes making pictures when they are shut
Liquid gold
Carnegie for kids—and artists
Pittsburgh’s century-old event engages the local population with the theme of play this year
Qatar hosts Hirst mega-show
The art of imperial power
An exhibition in Rome celebrates the 2,000th anniversary of the death of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor
Mission: destroy
Show suggests wrecking art is the point
Beast of Burden
The first survey of Chris Burden’s work in 25 years
Two years in Paris
Fairs Auctions
International fairs
Frieze smartens itself up
High standards set by Masters and New York editions… and a very large tree
Features
Zurbarán: elevation of a master
The Baroque painter is a figure to rank with the greatest of the greats
Restitution begins at home
The return of objects is not just an international issue—domestic claims can also offer insights. By Mark Jones
An enfant terrible at 80: Stuart Brisley
After decades of radical, confronting performance pieces, the artist makes a return to painting.
How New York fell back in love with Robert Indiana Free
With a retrospective lighting up the Whitney, the artist behind “that” work has finally returned to town.
Focus
A short guide to a long history
A major Chinese painting survey, opening in London this month, sheds light on a tradition that is still unfamiliar to many in the West
Timeline
Scrolling through life at the Chinese court
New York sets the scene
The week’s sales totalled more than $150m
New chair for NY’s Asia Art Week
Two china nibs
Holzer cracks Chinese text
Our pick of the interesting objects for sale this season in London
Tiny carvings in big demand
Best-selling book and surge of buyers from Russia and Ukraine revive market for netsuke By Claire Wrathall
The man who made netsuke cool again
Playing hardball with soft power
Western museums are feeling the pressure over restitution claims from China, Turkey and Cambodia
1:54 fair: out of Africa
Media
Going right behind the scenes
A new film offers a tour of the National Gallery’s recent Vermeer show—but can it replace the real thing?
Majewski’s Biblical film
Perry to give Reith talks
The Vogels star again
McQueen returns to the big screen
Uncovering African art
Museums
In brief
New team leads next stage of Louvre satellite Free
Organisation responsible for managing Saadiyat Island museum appoints new head
Guggenheim tackles Panza problem
Conceptual pieces could be fabricated for the first time and the fate of disavowed works decided
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US round-up
Philadelphia
US round-up
New York
US round-up
Washington, DC
Boston gets Benin’s royal blessing
Museums in denial about transport risks
Nicholas Penny tells Scottish Parliament of mishaps while moving art as it debates Burrell Collection
Tate borrows £55m for building projects
Directors woo their Chinese counterparts
Spanish head of Cimam sets out group’s global aims
Jumex fortune bears fruit
Collector’s second space for international contemporary art nears completion in Mexico City
Van Gogh comes out of the attic
Croydon sale breaks museums’ ethical code
Tate borrows £55m for building projects
Plan B for Berlin’s Old Masters
Historic paintings to stay put in the Kulturforum—and Modern art will move in
Collector strikes a deal with Bavaria
‘Red route’ to prosperity
Lenin museums aim to capitalise on renewed interest in the leader and increase in Chinese tourists
Hermitage: where did the money go?
Big plans despite cash crisis
A burned-out building and uncertain funding stand in the way of the Egyptian Museum’s expansion
Director fired after Tunis refugee show
Museum fit for the pharaohs stays on track
Obituary
In Memoriam
Werner Kaiser
His pioneering work brought new aspects of ancient Egyptian art and archaeology to light |