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  • NYC Sex in the City

    The Museum of Sex recently opened in New York City. Unlike the wow TV series Sex in the City, which is strangely, obliquely conservative (well, with a small ‘c’), this museum intends to show how even sex in America transforms…

  • Raphael removal risk

    The Duke of Northumberland’s ‘Madonna of the Pinks’ has been sold and removed from exhibition at the National Gallery to be sent to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles: just one of a continuing series of works lost to the…

  • Gormley in China

    The 120,000 clay figures produced under Antony Gormley’s direction by 300 Chinese workers in the Huada District of Guangzhou province, are shortly to travel to Beijing, where they will be marshalled into the Forbidden City, beside Tiananmen Square. This gathering,…

  • Elgin blow to the Acropolis

    ‘Treasure’ Neil MacGregor, also the safest and most inspired pair of hands in the world of National Museums and Galleries, has finally decided to put the foot down on the peripatetic speculation about the Elgin Marbles. This dashes any possible…

  • Closing in — comme ça, comme çi…

    Not Charles Saatchi but Frank Cohen – Who? Frank Cohen is, in fact, the major North of England collector who may yet rival Saatchi. Cohen owns works by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, and the painter Gary Hume, mostly lodged in…

  • Agnelli collection goes to final home

    Before his death from cancer earlier this year at the age of 81, Gianni Agnelli had seen to fruition the donation of his collection for permanent display in Turin. The venue is a 13 million building by Renzo Piano. The…

  • How cities renew, rebuild & remember

    Perhaps it was just a little ironic that, at a time when the bombing of Baghdad was in the offing, a conference should be held in The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland on Sense & the City. Addressed by speakers representing Glasgow,…

  • Botticelli worth £10 million found in vaults at National Gallery

    After lying unidentified for more than 150 years in the vaults of the National Gallery in London, a masterpiece by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli has been identified. If it were put up for auction, it is estimated it would…

  • Giorgio De Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne

    Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London 22 January-13 April 2003

  • Zeroing Ground Zero

    In early March, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will publicly announce the winner of the two finalists shortlisted to provide designs for the reconstruction of the 11 million square feet of office space destroyed on 11 September 2001.