Art News Australia, Austria, Belgium

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Vito Acconci's plan to link Anzac memorials is a bridge too far for some in Hobart

Collector David Walsh supports plan to mark Gallipoli centenary in Tasmanian capital but heritage experts object

Published online: 12 January 2015
Look Close

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Published online: 17 November 2014
Mystery surrounds relic of British Empire due to be auctioned in Australia

Object came from British Empire and Commonwealth Museum’s collection

Published online: 21 August 2014
Debate, ridicule and claims of unoriginality overshadow Sydney public art

Three permanent works due to be installed will cost the city AUS$8m

Published online: 20 August 2014
Christie’s sued over Australian fake

A Sydney-based barrister says the auction house failed to tell her their concerns over a work purportedly by Albert Tucker

Published online: 19 August 2014
Matthew Barney to make solo debut in Australia on an epic scale

US artist will incorporate pieces from David Walsh's antiquities collection

Published online: 01 August 2014
Neighbours worth getting to know

Australia’s museums are acquiring more contemporary Asian art but its private collectors blazed a trail to the region

Published online: 14 May 2014
National Gallery of Australia agrees to return dancing Shiva

The museum has surrendered the work to the federal government

Published online: 29 April 2014
Sydney Biennale survives crucible of controversy

The artistic director of the city-wide exhibition explains why the art takes the lead after sponsorship row
Chairman of Sydney Biennale steps down to remove 'dark cloud' threatening event

Artist-led boycott due to controversial sponsor ends

Published online: 07 March 2014
Five artists withdraw from Sydney biennial

Group says their participation in event linked to asylum seeker detention centres would have been “undeniable and indefensible”

Published online: 26 February 2014
Museums take action over works looted from India

In advance of next week’s trial against Subhash Kapoor, public collections start to deal with the objects they bought through the New York antiquities dealer

Published online: 26 February 2014
Artists threaten to boycott Biennale of Sydney

The exhibition’s main sponsor is contracted to provide service to the government’s controversial detention centres for asylum seekers

Published online: 21 February 2014
Heirs of refugee who fled Nazis seek portrait from Australian gallery

Painting was once owned by a UK arts minister who knew its provenance; questions remain about its attribution to Van Gogh

Published online: 30 January 2014
Sydney art gallery sizes up its future

Director clears first funding hurdle as he plans to expand Art Gallery of New South Wales

Published online: 02 August 2013
Big American art show heads to Australia via Korea

Sydney adds Edward Hopper to exhibit list, courtesy of Virginia museum

Published online: 02 August 2013
Tourist board in Australia censors photo screening

Images by world-class photographers deemed not “family-friendly”

Published online: 01 August 2013
Is the Australian resale royalty scheme benefiting indigenous artists?

Driving force behind the bill was to improve welfare of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

Published online: 19 July 2013
Art project using a human cadaver could still happen

Despite failing to legally secure a human body for exhibition, Baldessari would be happy to see his 1970 concept realised one day

Published online: 16 April 2013


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Vienna museum director calls for time limit on Nazi-loot restitution claims

But critics say the focus should be on how provenance research can be carried out efficiently and rapidly

Published online: 30 March 2015
Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze should not be returned, panel rules

Heirs claimed the Austrian government extorted the famous fresco

Published online: 06 March 2015
The other Gurlitt: the dealer cherished by 'degenerate' artists and Nazis alike

Discovery of Hildebrand Gurlitt’s Nazi-confiscated art hoard caused a scandal. His cousin Wolfgang’s story is less well known, but asks troubling questions of collections across the world

Published online: 16 January 2015
Hoffmann, Loos and the modernisation of Vienna

Exhibition explores the architects’ influence and their differences

Published online: 18 December 2014
Art with your après ski?

Austrian hotelier builds gallery up a mountain

Published online: 30 October 2014
Velázquez in German—at last

The artist’s first big monographic show in the German-speaking lands takes place in Vienna

Published online: 28 October 2014
Klimt foundation promises a 'fair and just agreement' for portrait sitter’s heir

Move comes after an independent legal team found the painting to be Nazi loot

Published online: 11 September 2014
Look but don’t touch

Mexicans will not get an Aztec headdress back from a Vienna museum—but they can see it for free

Published online: 01 May 2014
Klimt’s mystery woman unveiled

Experts support later dating after recent conservation work—and little-known portrait will go on show in Vienna for the first time

Published online: 23 April 2014
Austria decides not to buy the Essl collection

Karlheinz Essl says future of his museum is secure after deal struck with creditors


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Case against Tuymans flies in the face of art history

Belgian artist’s appropriation of a photographic portrait is part of a venerable tradition

Published online: 13 March 2015
Van Gogh to ‘Doudou’–Mons’s year as European Capital of Culture begins

Belgian city promises blockbuster shows but also new museums devoted to local traditions

Published online: 26 January 2015
From failed preacher to struggling artist, exhibition traces Van Gogh’s time in Belgian mining towns

Some of the few surviving examples of the Dutch painter’s earliest creative efforts are on view in Mons

Published online: 26 January 2015
Brussels fair offers a mixed bag of art surprises, from decomposing head to bronze turtles

International dealers bring an eclectic selection of works to Brafa

Published online: 24 January 2015
Van Gogh’s Belgian beginnings displayed in Mons for its year as European Capital of Culture

The first of many shows organised on the 125th anniversary of the artist's death opens this weekend's festivitites

Published online: 22 January 2015
Tuymans found guilty in copyright case involving political portrait

The artist’s painting of a Belgian MP’s sweat-bedewed forehead deemed too close to original photograph

Published online: 21 January 2015
Manuscripts rescued from the hands of Islamist rebels

Historical texts smuggled out of Timbuktu in cars, carts and canoes are on show this week in Brussels

Published online: 18 December 2014
Photographer captures the human face of Ebola epidemic

Brussels art centre partners with Médecins Sans Frontières to show portraits of aid workers in West Africa

Published online: 16 December 2014
Stalemate over Brussels' answer to MoMA and Tate Modern

Rift between regional and federal politicians deepens over plan to convert Citroën building

Published online: 11 December 2014
European parliament rejects culture commissioner candidate

Tibor Navracsics displeased committee members with his comments denying problems with NGOs in Hungary

Belgium
Arab Spring turmoil scuppers two shows

Belgian museum unable to obtain loans and “collaboration guarantees” from Egypt

Published online: 30 August 2012
Money-laundering rules mean more work for dealers

Brussels wants to lower amount of cash businesses can accept without asking questions

Published online: 13 June 2012
Collectors make careful choices at Art Brussels

The “best fair of the second division”, as one local dealer describes it, is a typically relaxed and steady-paced event

Published online: 23 April 2012
Authorities in bid to save derelict Van Gogh house

Published online: 12 January 2012
Delvoye risks “trouble” with offer to Ai Weiwei

Published online: 03 November 2011
“I don’t go to work, I go to something I love”

Published online: 20 January 2011
Tour planned for Gaddafi’s summit hits problems

Published online: 05 August 2010
“We grow every time there is a recession”

Published online: 03 December 2009
Why paintings succeed where words fail
The verdict that flies in the face of art history

A Belgian court recently found Luc Tuymans guilty of copyright infringement in his use of a photograph, a ruling that ignores appropriation’s vital role in art over the centuries and has worrying implications for the future.

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