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  • Walk-over

    The current chairman of Christies, Lord Hindlip, has just pulled off a dramatic coup. Christies have been engaged by the Marquess of Bath to sell an estimated £15 million worth of art and antiques from Longleat. Compared with embattled Sotheby’s,…

  • Richard Demarco’s Edinburgh

    Richard Demarco’s Edinburgh Edinburgh belongs to a special kind of city deserving of the UNESCO designation as a world heritage site. These are cities of the imagination; cities which exist on the edge, where our memories and daydreams, our histories…

  • Great day for Turner

    No, not the Turner Prize. What Sandy Nairne, Director of Programmes at the Tate Gallery, was referring to was actually the final solution for the Turner Bequest. The 30,000 works on paper and 350 canvasses left to the nation on…

  • University of gloom

    There is anguish at St Andrews University, Scotland, that Prince William is not over-enthusiastic about his time there. Perhaps art history needs to be made more inspiring. There are not many masterpieces in St Andrews (paintings we mean) and, as…

  • Rubens resurfaces

    Just when the Rubens’ world seemed to be safely recatalogued, a great masterpiece has turned up in Amsterdam, having an estimated value of up to 6 million when it is auctioned next summer. The subject is ‘The Massacre of the…

  • Moses returns

    At Galerie St Etienne, New York through 16 March (24 West 57th Street) there is a tribute to Grandma Moses. Otto Kallir gave the redoubtable Anna Mary Robertson Moses her first one-person show in 1940. This show relates to a…

  • Morgan more

    Mindful of the recent death of the French artist Balthus, it is timely to find (from this month through 21 May) amidst the exhibition ‘Pierre Matisse and his Artists’, the portrait by Balthus of Henri Matisse in the Morgan Library,…

  • MOMA rave

    The New York Museum of Modern Art survey of Gerhard Richter’s 40 years of painting is a graceful accolade to a much-loved if controversial European painter. Opened on St Valentine’s Day, and continuing until late May, Richter is a critical…

  • Massow martyr

    Ivan Massow, former Chairman, has now left the ICA, some would say as a martyr, for criticising — among other things — ‘conceptual art’. (Tom Stoppard survived his personal questioning of the phenomenology of that which isn’t. Will Massow?) Massow…

  • Lefevre\’s last summer

    The London Lefevre Gallery, a major player in the London Art scene since 1926, was announced in January to be closing its doors soon. Coming so quickly after D’Offay’s own withdrawal, a trend is well becoming apparent. The Museum world…