The Art Newspaper

“The mind’s eye” discussion at the Tate Gallery:“The film of Kennedy’s assassination is the Sistine Chapel of our era”

J.G. Ballard, author of The Empire of the Sun, chooses seven images and explains his passion for Surrealism and the importance that Pop Art, Francis Bacon and photography have had for him

Booksarchive

Books: Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War

Tales of stoicism in the face of extreme adversity

David Smith's 'Wagon II' bound for the Tate

Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands

Booksarchive

Man Ray photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

The book forms part of the museum's paperback photography series

Letters to the Editor: “Alberto Giacometti did not use Redoutey’s foundry”

The director of the Giacometti Association, Mary Lisa Palmer, corrects our coverage of the Giacometti plaster models and demystifies the forthcoming Giacometti Foundation

Booksarchive

Books: Wyndham Lewis and the art of modern war

This collection positions Lewis as an “anti-war war artist”

Publishing Tate's colourful past to celebrate its centenary

Histories and anecdotes of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum

Michelangelo's sculptures transported into the digital age with new scanning technology

Stanford University works to create computer models of all of the master's sculptural works

Tatearchive

Large Lottery grant to Tate Gallery to buy contemporary art

£6.2 million goes to the new Tate at Bankside before next years opening.

Cambodiaarchive

Cambodian king urges Prime Minister to put an end to destroying ancient temples for black market trade

Corrupt military officials in cahoots with Thai art dealers are hacking away at the temples

Restitution round-up: France, Austria, Italy, and Germany

Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks

Judge orders smashing of Giacometti plaster models

Founder of unauthorised casts sentenced to ten years

Picasso's reaction to the Second World War

“Picasso and the War Years 1937-45”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 5 February-9 May

Andy Warhol exhibition to open in Vienna

“Andy Warhol: A Factory”, Kunsthalle at Karlplatz, Vienna, 5 February-2 May

US company mergers may result in sponsorship shrinkage

Standing out from the crowd with art sponsorship becomes unnecessary, as more and more of America's biggest corporations unify

Tutu wars: Wardrobe malfunctions for Degas' "Little Dancer" as institutions search for the real deal

Research reassess the dingy mini-skirt usually seen on editions of the work. Does the answer lie in Nebraska?

Marion’s Medusas at the Warburg in London

Stancioff spent her life charting the use of the same visual symbols by vastly distant cultures

Venice archive

Venice condemned by politics

Lagoon barriers rejected by the Green minister of the environment

German season in London

Rosemarie Trockel, Andreas Gursky and Stephen Balkenhol all show new work

Austria makes legal amends by passing a bill ensuring restitution

Works acquired in a “suspicious manner” will begin to be returned at once

Collectingarchive

The history of collecting: Not something to frighten the horses

An exhibition on the art in British country houses aims to show the public that these collections play a modern, vital role in the nation’s culture

Bacon sizzles in New York as newly discovered works go on display at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery

The exhibition notably shuns the Marlborough gallery, which represented the artist throughout his life