Winter brought strong winds of opinion in art press coverage and heated debate on the 21st century role and dynamic of museums. There has been a cultural call to arms to “connect art to…
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2017 in New York has started off on an opulent foot with fabulous decorative arts on view at some of the world’s best dealers and museums. Here are three top choices. The decorative arts…
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High-profile patron Tiqui Atencio turns the spotlight on her fellow collectors with new book The Art Newspaper is the journal of record for the visual arts world, covering international news and events. Based in…
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articles/Why Italy should sell the antiquities recovered by the police Improperly excavated artefacts could be auctioned to help cash-strapped museums By Anna Somers Cocks. Comment, Issue 266, March 2015 Published online: 25 March 2015…
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Scrap metal find turns out to be $33 million Faberge golden egg The man, who hails from the Midwest but wishes to remain anonymous, had been left financially stretched after he apparently overestimated what…
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Maastricht Art Fair Widens Its Reach, to New York LONDON – Tefaf Maastricht, Europe’s biggest and most prestigious fair devoted to art, antiques and design, is expanding into New York. The Netherlands-based event, organized…
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articles/Lynda Benglis going with the flow Though best known for the 1970s Artforum ad in which she posed naked brandishing an enormous dildo, the American artist, now 73 and the subject of two spring…
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articles/The%20billionaire%20behind%20the%20new%20Vuitton%20museum%20in%20Paris Bernard Arnault’s personal taste in art is “very elegant, very bourgeois” By Gareth Harris. Web onlyPublished online: 30 October 2014 Bernard Arnault (right) with French President Francois Hollande at the opening of the…
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articles/The case for oldfashioned connoisseurship The stifling of expert opinions is like having fully trained doctors who can’t make a diagnosis, says the art historian Bendor Grosvenor By Bendor Grosvenor. Comment, Issue 258, June…