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Recession takes a heavy toll on Brazil’s art scene

Some museums have closed their doors as other ailing institutions look to the Olympics to raise funds

Armory week brushes downbeat sentiments aside to ring up sales

The Armory Show and New York’s satellite fairs prove US market is holding up

West London gallery hub to keep V&A company

£15m development in South Kensington’s “Albertopolis” cultural zone will house shows and projects

Ghana gains first commercial gallery for contemporary art

Institutional boost for country’s rising art scene, but still only a handful of local collectors

Crowdfunding captures the art world’s imagination

Big-name artists and institutions are using Kickstarter to fund their projects

Talking about art in Isil times

Under the leadership of Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, the March Meeting in Sharjah did not shy away from the pain, extremism and corruption of the world today

A month of legal ups and downs at Christie’s

Two Indian sculptures were seized from Christie’s, New York ahead of Asia Week

Indians and Pakistanis work together to realise Partition Museum

Project leaders announce fundraising goals before conference in Delhi

Museums beware: Irish gang that stole £50m of antiquities is still on the loose

Fourteen members of “Rathkeale Rovers” gang convicted, but many remain at large

A depressed art market: not a bad time to die

US tax court’s valuation revision reduces estate taxes for heirs