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- German shipper jailed by Chinese returns home May 22, 2013The German art shipper who was jailed for 100 days by Chinese authorities on suspicion of art smuggling has left China, although the legal proceedings against him are still ongoing. Nils Jennrich, the Beijing-based general manager of Integrated Fine...
- Where next for Hong Kong, Asia’s art hub? May 22, 2013As the Art Basel Hong Kong fair opens its doors to invited guests, there is no doubt that, culturally speaking, the Hong Kong we see today is very different from the place that fair impresario Tim Etchells visited, for the first time, in 2006....
- Ripple effect of record sales in New York May 22, 2013Christie’s broke the record for the highest amount raised in one auction last week when its contemporary and Modern sale in New York raised $495m. Big-ticket items included Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat, 1963, (detail, below) bought for...
- M+ gets a Tino Sehgal May 22, 2013Thirteen collectors and artists from Hong Kong have donated 280 works in a variety of media to M+, Hong Kong’s planned museum of visual culture. The collector Alan Lau has donated a performance piece, Guards Kissing, 2002, by Tino Sehgal....
- China’s billion-dollar domestic art market May 22, 2013Although China is one of the leading art markets in the world, collecting there is still largely domestic. In one of the most in-depth reports conducted recently, the European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf) Art Market Report 2013, the economist Clare...
- Change of tack by Jockey Club May 22, 2013The project to transform the former Central Police Station into a cultural hub for Hong Kong by 2015 has a new vision for its contemporary art programme. A call has gone out for candidates to organise the programme. Charles Saumarez Smith, the...
- Stormin Norman May 22, 2013One of the art world's most distinguished and colourful characters has been caught on canvas. The Spanish artist Daniel Quintero has painted Sir Norman Rosenthal, the art historian and curator who made his mark as Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal...
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- Turner oil breaks artist record July 13, 2010A Turner masterpiece of a view over Rome sells for £29.7m at Sotheby's in London, breaking the artist's record at auction.
- Man cleared of folio theft December 14, 2010Antiques dealer Raymond Scott is cleared of stealing a rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, worth an estimated £1m.
- Slave portrait appeal is launched July 13, 2010The National Portrait Gallery launches a £100,000 appeal to help keep in the UK the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave.
- Artist Taylor-Wood has baby girl July 13, 2010Artist turned film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood has a baby girl with actor fiance Aaron Johnson.
- Sister Act show role for Goldberg July 7, 2010Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg is set to make her West End debut, starring in the musical Sister Act.
- Serpentine sees red over pavilion July 6, 2010The Serpentine Gallery's summer pavilion, designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, is unveiled.
- Opera singer Siepi dies aged 87 July 7, 2010Italian opera star Cesare Siepi, considered one of the finest ever bass singers, dies at the age of 87.
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