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The Spoliation Advisory Panel and Art Restitution Claims
Items from the Tate, V&A and Ashmolean museum are being investigated by the Spoliation Advisory Panel: what is the panel, and what do they do?
Women in art: Australia honours Julie Ewington and Fiona Foley
In Australia, all of the major national art institutions are run by men, but it’s encouraging that women are being recognised
Buying for Boijmans: the story behind a recent museum acquisition
Sjarel Ex explains how the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen acquired a Hammershøi at TEFAF
Auction houses should do more to root out looted antiquities
Potentially looted items, such as those identified this week at Christie’s and Bonhams, keep making it to auction
Why rebuilding the Crystal Palace is a bad idea
Boris Johnson and Ni Zhaoxing plan to rebuild the Crystal Palace on Sydenham Hill. It’s a ludicrous project
Flipping Out: Saltz and Simchowitz clash over the art market
Flipping art is a controversial practice: it was only a matter of time before it resulted in a public spat
Scouring the art schools: the search for the UK’s best young artists
My annual search has turned into something of an obsession
The last dance? Scandal surrounds the NGA’s allegedly stolen Shiva statue
The National Gallery of Australia has removed a Shiva statue from public view and may return it to India
BLAST: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, 100 years on
Launched just months before the outbreak of war, Vorticism was ill-timed and short-lived. But it’s a vital chapter in the history of British art
Art, Architecture and Sustainability
The Architecture Foundation’s latest display looks at models of sustainability in architecture. Are visual artists keeping up?
The Week’s Muse: 29 March
Maurice Davies on museum funding, Daisy Dunn on Pompeii’s stolen fresco, and other stories from the Muse Room this week
A Little Gay History (abridged): the British Museum and China
The museum omitted Chinese artefacts from a history of homosexuality
Does the UK need more Cultural Gifts?
The UK government’s Cultural Gifts Scheme is a nice idea, but most museums already have more work than they know what to do with
Essl Sells: should Austria acquire the Essl Collection?
Entrepreneur Karlheinz Essl hopes to sell his private collection to Austria, to save 4000 jobs at his company
TEFAF 2014 Showcase
What does it mean to be selected for TEFAF’s yearly Showcase of promising new galleries?
On the Stolen Pompeii Fresco
The theft of part of a minor fresco in Pompeii is not in itself a huge loss, but it highlights wider security and conservation issues
The Week’s Muse: 22 March
Lost, stolen, restored, repackaged and photographed: a round-up of art news and debates from this week
To Shoot or Not to Shoot: Photography in Galleries
Are the rules governing photography in many major museums just too confusing?
Rob and Nick Carter at The Fine Art Society: TEFAF 2014
Rob and Nick Carter’s harnessing of digital media encourages us to look at art more closely
How ill-informed is Vladislav Surkov about American culture?
Apparently Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock are all the Russian official – who faces US sanctions – will miss
Loss, theft and destruction: on the absence of art
As long as we have art, some of it will go missing. It’s how we respond to that fact that’s ultimately of importance to our culture
The Week’s Muse: 15 March
Ethical dilemmas, a defence of art dealers, and highlights from this week’s major art fairs…
Sponsorship, ethics and the Biennale of Sydney
The debate over arts sponsorship in Australia is riddled with difficult questions and double standards
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