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Art Outlook: 25 September

Racism and censorship rows at the Barbican; hailstorms in Florence; and the end of cadmium red?

25 Sep 2014

The London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery

Art and books have always gone hand in hand…

25 Sep 2014

Bantry House sale postponed

It was once nicknamed ‘The Wallace Collection of Ireland’: are efforts being made to save what remains of Bantry’s historic collection?

24 Sep 2014

National Gallery launches membership scheme

This is the third in a hat trick of recent changes intended to place public engagement at the heart of the gallery’s operations

24 Sep 2014

The Wallace Collection: The Great Gallery reopens

The Great Galley at the Wallace Collections reopens after a two year refurbishment

19 Sep 2014

Art Outlook: 18 September

What would Scottish independence mean for the arts? Is the Wallace Collection’s Great Gallery as good as they say? And who spends $65 million on a new pavement?

18 Sep 2014

Art Outlook: 11 September

A Turner masterpiece goes up for sale; over 70 paintings are stolen in Vienna; and a Monet shows up in Gurlitt’s suitcase

11 Sep 2014

The Week’s Muse: 6 September

Ed Vaizey at the Art Business Conference, hard times for the UK’s regional museums, the potential impact of Scottish independence on its museums, and what you should visit this autumn

6 Sep 2014

Review: Al Jazeera’s Rebel Architecture

Al Jazeera’s ‘Rebel Architecture’ series challenges the ways in which we view the role of the architect

5 Sep 2014

Vaizey promises action on ARR and ivory: The Art Business Conference

Ed Vaizey at the inaugural Art Business Conference, London

5 Sep 2014

Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in Berlin

A look ahead at some of the contemporary art exhibitions opening soon in Berlin

5 Sep 2014

Art Outlook: 4 September

New director for the Kunsthalle Zurich, renovation plans at the Louvre, a warped Raphael at the Borghese and an appeal to save Wedgwood

4 Sep 2014

Autumn Highlights: what to watch out for in New York

Museum reopenings and big-name exhibitions take centre stage in New York this autumn

4 Sep 2014

Acquisitions of the month: August

A quiet month for acquisitions, but not everyone’s been resting on their laurels…

31 Aug 2014

Art Outlook: 28 August

Art thefts, law suits, iconoclasm, politics and buried treasure

28 Aug 2014

Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti leaves the French Cabinet

Filippetti left the Cabinet in the midst of a political crisis which resulted in a reshuffle this weekend

27 Aug 2014

Art Outlook: 21 August

Major resignations at Gwangju Biennale and Art Basel; the Bin Laden’s Carrara quarry; and drama at the Jeff Koons retrospective

21 Aug 2014

Art Outlook: 14 August

Ukraine museums move to protect their collections; auction houses move online; and robots move in to the Tate

14 Aug 2014

Could a newly discovered tomb in Greece hold Hellenistic treasures?

It’s thought it could have links with Alexander the Great, and items have been found previously nearby

13 Aug 2014

Milking It: Delaware Art Museum will sell two more works of art

Winslow Homer’s ‘Milking Time’ and Alexander Calder’s ‘The Black Crescent’ are next up

11 Aug 2014

Art Outlook: 7 August

What is the light over London? Can children understand art? And what are tortoises doing in the Aspen Art Museum?

7 Aug 2014

Lights Out: Remembering the First World War

The UK’s monuments will go dark this evening, marking 100 years since the start of the First World War

4 Aug 2014

Northampton Museums lose Arts Council Accreditation

The Sekhemka sale has quickly become something of a case study in the dangers of deaccessioning

4 Aug 2014

Art Outlook: 1 August

Some of the stories we’ve spotted this week

1 Aug 2014