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Thursday 24 January 2013 | View in browser News | Museums | Market | Conservation | Exhibitions | Jobs | Comment | In print ON SALE NOW In January's print edition: Great leap forward for US-China museum loans UK counts cost of diplomacy The Assads: final portraits? See all the headlines from this month’s print edition Subscribe now to get more than 100 articles only in the print edition.    In this week’s edition NEWS Egypt’s art world rallies to defend freedom of expression Artists, curators, critics and academics fear new constitution threatens censorship of the arts and culture museums Rijksmuseum buys first abstract painting The Bart van der Leck work is due to go on show when the museum reopens in April Three arrested in connection with Rotterdam Kunsthal robbery Dutch police confirm that the suspects have been arrested in Romania San Francisco museum professionals up in arms about curator’s departure Long-standing curator of painting and sculpture leaves just before Vermeer show Market New York Old Master auctions preview: so much to see, so little time Twelve sales in three days make the season a sprint rather than a stroll—but works by Batoni and Carracci are worth slowing down to see South-east London dealer shuts up shop Poppy Sebire says she is in discussions about a new role elsewhere  exhibitions Manet finds freedom through portraiture at Royal Academy Hard though it is to believe, the French painter Edouard Manet’s portraiture has until now remained unexplored. “Manet: Portraying Life”, organised by the Royal Academy and the Toledo Museum of Art, is the first exhibition devoted solely to the artist’s portraits. MaryAnne Stevens, the curator of the exhibition and the director of academic affairs at the Royal Academy, says Manet’s originality as a portraitist comes from the independence his success brought him. “The absence of the need to earn his keep through portrait painting gave him far greater freedom in terms of the setting of the pose and choice of costume. It also gave him freedom in terms of treatment. He could choose to paint it tightly or loosely, with more of a reference to Velázquez, or less... READ MORE All exhibitions      You received this email from The Art Newspaper because you are on the Thursday newsletter list. Unsubscribe to permanently remove yourself from this list. © The Art Newspaper, 70 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1RL. Tel: +44 (0)20 3416 9000 www.theartnewspaper.com

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