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In June's print edition:

  • Four years after devastating earthquake, L’Aquila is still in ruins
  • Syrian looting revealed on Google Earth
  • Smoking banned in Beijing's Forbidden City

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In this week’s edition

news

Artist plans to cover executed prisoner’s corpse in gold paint for show

Work is intended as a commentary on the death penalty in America, but legal questions remain

Otto Muehl dies, aged 87

One of the pioneers of Viennese Actionism continues to stir controversy

Toulouse festival focuses on the artists

In contrast to Venice’s sprawling exhibition, this revamped event in southern France offers an in-depth look at just eight artists and designers

Panama biennial under fire

Boycotts, disputes and deportation overshadow first Bienal del Sur, but director defends curatorial choices

More in news in the print issue:

  • Dan Flavin's estate lifts ban on posthumous art
  • British king Edward VIII borrowed works from the nation
  • Benjamin West altarpiece could head to Boston museum


MARKET

Drawing new buyers

The experimental character and technical virtuosity of Old Master sketches are inspiring interest from new sectors of the art world

Court finds for artist who disowned work before auction

Consignor had sought damages from Cady Noland after Sotheby's withdrew the lot

More in market in the print issue:

  • When is an Utrillo not an Utrillo?
  • Trust to sell Jan Steen painting that was to star in new gallery
  • Christie’s, the baron and the sheikh

conservation

China investigates Sichuan earthquake, five years on

Officials report on the extent of damage caused by 7.0-magnitude quake to heritage sites and what can be done to conserve them

More in conservation in the print issue:

  • New home for Henry VIII’s ill-fated warship, the Mary Rose
  • Shoring up St Mark’s bell tower in Venice
  • Cold War spy photos help locate archaeological sites

museums

Museums: the cure for a crowded house?

At annual conference, professionals discuss the power of technology and how museums could become an escape from cramped urban living

More in features in the print issue:

  • Saint Louis Art Museum's "quiet and reserved" addition
  • Praise for Tate Britain's rehang
  • "Orphaned" Cézanne watercolour surfaces in Ottawa

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exhibitions

The diversity of indigenous art in Brisbane

The Tiwi Islands, which lie 100km north of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory where the Arafura Sea joins the Timor Sea, are home to an indigenous group of around 3,000 people. In 2009, the photographer Bindi Cole travelled there for five weeks to chronicle a transgender community referred to locally as “Sistagirls”. “There’s quite a strong transgender population there,” says Bruce McLean, the curator of indigenous Australian art at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), “although it’s not really something people think about when they think about Aboriginal communities.” McLean has included Cole’s photographs in “I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia”, the largest survey of indigenous art ever staged at GoMA, because he is keen to show that Aboriginal experiences today are “incredibly diverse”… READ MORE

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reader offer

Complimentary tickets to the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, 6-16 June 2013

180 specialist dealers from the UK and abroad source and set aside their best pieces of the year to sell at London’s most established international marketplace for art and antiques. Enhance your collection, find inspiration for your home or simply take the opportunity to acquire something beautiful, unusual and timeless from every area of artistic creation.
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conferences

Register for Agenda Conference in Stockholm

Join us at the 13th Communicating the Museum conference to be inspired by Swedish and international experts in creativity. The conference, dedicated to international museum professionals, will take place at the Moderna Museet from 3 to 6 July. For the full programme and to register, visit: www.communicatingthemuseum.com


courses

Applications invited: Masters in the history and business of the art market

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