Art & Collecting
Lebanon with the show!
Beirut is abuzz with new art, new collectors and some exciting new exhibition platforms to bring them all together, says Zain Alatas
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Anthony Haden-Guest hails the appointment of Jeffrey Deitch — veteran gallerist and canny operator — as director of LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Oil Paintings
As the price of crude rises, so does Russian wealth — and they’re spending it on art at the London sales, says Ivan Lindsay
If You Build Them, Will They Come?
Can a string of grand-scale, starchitect-designed museums help the Gulf states shed their reputation as a cultural desert, asks John Arlidge
Painting by Numbers
Hedgehog attends a course on art fraud, and is currently painting his very own genuine Rembrandt
Ruffer donates £15m to save paintings
Jonathan Ruffer, the renowned contrarian wealth manager, has bought a series of twelve Spanish Old Master paintings from the Bishop of Durham for £15 million and given them back as a donation
Arts Council Cuts Announced
Responding to a 30 per cent cut in government funding, the Arts Council England today announced the winners and losers of its latest round of funding
Govt's arts philanthropy strategy lacking, Parliament says
The lack of any tax incentives in the Government's strategy to encourage arts philanthropy is a 'significant omission', the Culture Select Committee's says today
Curzon Street Revisited
Naming a new high-speed rail station after Lord Curzon expresses British pride in travel - and in our superb buildings for travel
Art Newspaper: Duffield gives £8.2m to arts
An £8.2m donation by leading philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield will benefit 11 cultural organisations in the UK
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