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|  | | Thursday 29 November 2012 | View in browser | | News | Museums | Market | Conservation | Exhibitions | Jobs | Comment | In print | | | | 
| | In this week’s edition | NEWS The UK’s Portable Antiquities Scheme is struggling to cope with the huge number of artefacts found by metal detectorists Online database of authenticated works now numbers more than 1,000 pieces Lucy and Jorge Orta have been chosen to create the first monumental work to be suspended from the ceiling of the London train station
MuseumS Saudi Arabian artist’s work was removed from London show
MARKET Palestinian protest paintings fail to sell on eBay, spend a season in the Hamptons and are now heading for Florida fair
video  Julien Frydman, the director of Paris Photo, gives an overview of this year's fair, plus his vision for the first US edition, due to take place next April in Los Angeles. We also speak to dealers about how to stand out in Paris.
exhibitions  The American feminist artist Judy Chicago, who is best known for The Dinner Party, 1974-79, an installation of 39 dinner place settings for mythical and historical women, returns to London for the first time in more than 20 years to show her work at the Riflemaker Gallery (13 November-22 December) and the Ben Uri Gallery (14 November-10 March 2013), her first UK museum show. Chicago’s early works on paper will occupy Riflemaker’s three floors, as well as the acrylic painted Birth Hood, 1965 (above), and pieces from The Dinner Party. “We wanted to explore Chicago’s influence on contemporary art,” says Tot Taylor, the gallery’s director.
“At a time where one of the dominant influences in contemporary practice appears to be art created 'from a female perspective' it might be said that Judy Chicago built on the work which had been done by Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois.
She worked through revolutionary times. 2011's Pacific Standard Time, the collaboration by sixty museums across California, led to something of a re- evaluation and in some ways rediscovery of her work, hence the current international exhibition activity.” The Ben Uri Gallery will show 200 individual items from her later career, including The Return of the Butterfly, 2012.
“While Chicago is an iconic figure in the US, her following here may not be as widespread, particularly among the current generation,” says Rachel Dickson, the show’s curator.
“We hope the show will ignite new interest in her art”... READ MORE | | 
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