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François Pinault loses Egyptian antiquity case

Controversy over statue which dates from 1850-1720 BC

Booksarchive

Book Review: Jo Crook and Tom Learner, The impact of modern paints

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 192 pp, 25 b/w ills, 160 col. ills, £16.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372874

Turner and Claude exhibited together in 'Pure as Italian Air'

Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue

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Book review: Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds), Paint and purpose: a study of technique in British art

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483

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Art Basel to launch in Miami Beach

From next year, modern and contemporary art dealers will congregate in Florida

Forgeriesarchive

Spanish art forgery network busted

Arrests followed an investigation sparked by the concerns of the Joan Miró Foundation

Star Wars exhibition opens in Bradford

“The Art of Star Wars”, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, until 29 April 2001

Letters: V&A was not intended to be purely decorative

If there is a museum anywhere in the world which can claim to be the first embodiment of this inclusive, antisegregationist approach, it is the V&A.

Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern

Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy

The World Jewish Congress’s Commission for Art Recovery restitutes works from museums in Hanover and Leipzig

Does this mark a change of direction for initiative, which previously only recorded losses?

Less is more with Lauder restoration

Several works subject to restoration paid for by Estée Lauder

Booksarchive

Phaidon to publish Warhol catalogue raisonné

It will comprise of six volumes, beginning with his production from 1961 to 1963

Negotiating a united front: Berlin's culture minister Christoph Stölzl takes on funding culture in the capital

It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control

Palazzo Vecchio Leonardo discovery doubted

The unfinished fresco may lie under Vasari's contribution to the Palazzo

Anatomies of exhibitions: Tate Britain. "To define British art"

Director Stephen Deuchar and curators Christine Riding and Robin Hamlyn reveal how they choose the shows

Bernard Arnault buys Art & Auction

The French chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey and Phillips auction houise may turn the publication into a luxury lifestyle magazine

Antiquities dealer Shelby White included in US Cultural Property Advisory Committee: A fox among doves?

Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out

Newsarchive

Artists lend support to MoMA strike on its 111th day

Over 125 artists signed an open letter to the museum detailing the group’s regret over the museum’s refusal to negotiate with the union

July 2000archive

Somebody loves Lenin in Finland

Public outcry scuppered Helsinki officials' plan to buy granite bust of the Communist leader

Dalí sculpture en masse in London

600 pieces of Dalí’s Universe on display at County Hall