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| | Thursday 11 April 2013 | View in browser | | News | Museums | Market | Conservation | Exhibitions | Jobs | Comment | In print | | | | | | In this week’s edition | news The oil-rich Gulf state has snapped up the UK’s most famous work by the Modern master, according to French reports International plagiarism case shines a spotlight on the country's ineffective laws protecting artists’ work More in news in the print issue: - Canada under pressure over potential Nazi loot
- Restitution to get harder in California?
- City of London altarpiece in unholy row
museums The Huntington Library and Art Collections had believed the work was missing for 30 years Christian art in Byzantine church-turned-museum is at risk after controversial court ruling Vienna's controversial Leopold Museum show prepares to travel to Paris's Musée d’Orsay, where it is likely to create much less of a furore More in museums in the print issue: - Latin partners wanted for next Pacific Standard Time project
- New kid on Mexico City’s millionaire row
- Benin bronzes to be returned—on loan
market Museums are buying African-American art to make their collections more representative, but the market remains lukewarm—for now Internet-based business that lends art to would-be buyers proves a hit More in market in the print issue: - Debate stirred by museum show of Russian art fund’s works
- Painting owned by Hitler soars at auction
- Companies reach agreement on Beijing freeport
exhibitions  When Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands cuts the ribbon at the New Rijksmuseum on 13 April, it will be one of her last official functions before she abdicates at the end of the month. The queen, an amateur sculptor, loves art, so she must have shared the country’s frustration that the main building of the Dutch national museum of art and history has been closed for a decade. Expectations are high for the Rijksmuseum to re-emerge as one of the world’s top half-dozen museums. The museum has 80 galleries, covering 800 years of Dutch culture, so redisplaying the collection has been a complex logistical operation. Only 8,000 of its one million objects are going on show (the same number as before the museum closed), but many will be different and, with 10% additional gallery area, the exhibits will have more space. Only one work—Rembrandt’s Night Watch, 1642—is going back to its original spot.
Taco Dibbits, the head of collections, admits that the curators tend to want to present too much, and that the process of selecting the works has been ruthless. “You have to kill off some of your beautiful darlings,” he says… READ MORE
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