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In July/August's print edition:

  • The Degas whodunit: where were recent plasters made?
  • Philadelphia's rare copy of Vermeer to travel to London
  • Documenta: where art and politics meet

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In this week’s edition

news

Street-art mural stirs racial row in Boston

Backlash against bigotry after painting of a boy with jacket wrapped around his head is described as depicting a “terrorist”

London Olympics get Brit Art send-off

Games close with Union Jack stadium floor by Damien Hirst and Thomas Heatherwick's cauldron deconstructs

More in news in the current issue:

  • New Orleans's debt-free biennial woos funders
  • Former director of Naples library charged

 museums

Stop spitting on great-grandpa's painting

The Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac's great-granddaughter is fighting in court to have vandalised work moved from suburban town hall to Musée d’Orsay

Unilever ends Tate Turbine Hall sponsorship

Company bows out with Tino Sehgal’s performance piece

More in museums in the current issue:

  • Getty to keep Pacific Standard Time rolling with sequel
  • Florence's contemporary art museum shuts
  • Venetian island gets modern glass gallery

conservation

Oslo moves to list frieze by Munch

Sculpture park with works by Vigeland will also be protected

More in conservation in the current issue:

  • Syrian conservators train in Rome to restore mosaics
  • Controversy over sunken Royal Navy heritage deepens
  • Experts head to Vienna for decorative art conference

market

Shifting interests in art market blamed for closure of veteran LA gallery

After 40 years in the business, the respected Los Angeles dealer Margo Leavin is shutting up shop

More in market in the current issue:

  • Art sanctions aim to hit Syria's rich where it hurts
  • Hong Kong sales: the party's winding down
  • American paintings market on the road to recovery

Exhibitions

Rio welcomes Olympic flag and Antony Gormley's sculptures

This week, as the Olympic flag arrived in Rio de Janeiro from London, the artist Antony Gormley flew the flag for Britain at the Brazilian city’s—and the world’s—most visited exhibition venue: the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil. His show opened just as the Olympic Games closed in London with a bang and a Damien Hirst work of art covering the stadium floor. Gormley's life-sized body sculptures installed precariously on the edge of buildings, entitled "Event Horizons", 2007-12, have been dubbed “suicide sculptures” by the… Read more

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jobs

Course Director and Lecturer/Tutor: Art, Law and Business
Christie’s Education London

These two posts will support a new development in art, law and business in collaboration with the University of Glasgow. The posts will be based in London at Christie’s Education and work with the new professor/reader in art business to be appointed simultaneously by the University of Glasgow and the academic director at Christie’s Education. The new positions will deliver the teaching for a proposed new MSc in Art, Law and Business planned to commence in September 2013. Read more

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