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Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser . 10 february 2011 Articles The main stories posted this week on The Art Newspaper website Video New programmes from The Art Newspaper TV Exhibitions Shows opening from What's On Offers Special promotions from The Art Newspaper Jobs This week's featured vacancy in print In print only: The mystery of the Vasari archive sale Partygoers damage public sculptures Romania represented by two projects in Venice “Qatar is capable of taking on itself the role of backing Arab art” Spanish royal seal of approval for Dalí’s Florida home Xin Li jumps ship from Sotheby’s to Christie’s The notion of art as an investment vehicle is reviving, but now the focus is on liquidity Government begins flooding ancient spa town Click for full list of articles in the current issue subscribe The Art Newspaper is available in print and online versions. Subscribe now. unsubscribe You received this email from The Art Newspaper because you are on the Thursday newsletter list. Unsubscribe to permanently remove yourself from this list   leAD Low risk, high premiums EUROPE. When works of art are lent by Europe’s leading museums, the cost of buying commercial insurance can swallow as much as 15% of the borrower’s exhibition budget, research by an expert working group, funded by the European Commission, has revealed. Lending institutions frequently “over-evaluate risks, which in turn leads to high insurance premiums”, said Frank Bergevoet, a member of the working group and co-ordinator for Collections Mobility 2.0, the European-funded project to reduce the financial and administrative obstacles to lending. READ MORE articles After censorship row, what next in Hungary? Brussels shows and Budapest appointment overshadowed by government’s hands-on cultural policy Investigation begins into neglect of Pompeii Nine people to be questioned following extensive damage at the 2,000-year-old site Bard’s burgled book to be conserved Conservators to repair damage done to Shakespeare First Folio during the ten years it went missing Saved from Florida’s floods only to drown in architecture The art collection in the new Salvador Dalí Museum in St Petersburg is overcome by Yann Weymouth’s “crystal nightmare” Spanish royal seal of approval for Dalí’s Florida home Meanwhile in Europe, the artist’s foundation battles “pseudo museums” to protect his brand On the death of a daughter The life of late photographer Francesca Woodman and the frank observations of her artist parents all articles video Spartacus Chetwynd's Cat Bus Speaking at the 2010 Frieze Art Fair, artist Spartacus Chetwynd discusses her ambitious performance piece which entertained the crowds in the marquee in Regent's Park. Used to performing in more intimate venues, this larger scale work, represented a new challenge for Chetwynd. Interview by Jean Wainwright. Jesus Is My Homeboy - David LaChapelle Anna Somers Cocks talks to Photographer and Film Director David LaChapelle about his exhibition, Jesus is my Homeboy, which showed at Robilant + Voena's London Gallery. more videos exhibitions Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese This exhibition is the result of four years of planning and research by New York’s small but scholarly Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), which opened near the Lincoln Center in 2005. The latests in its varied exhibition programme focuses on one particular figure of ­biblical imagery—the suffering Christ, within one specific milieu—Venice.   jobs MANAGING MUSEUM EDUCATOR The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Education Department Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford all jobs ©The Art Newspaper, 70 South Lambeth Rd, London SW8 1RL +44 20 7735 3331 www.theartnewspaper.com