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Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser . 14 April 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: Arts Council takes action against former trustee Public sculpture faces political squeeze Obama opens the door to Cuban artists Law makes photographing Florida farms a crime Race to save Buddhist relics in former Bin Laden camp Art centre stands firm in Gdansk shipyard Islamic centre in Paris to mark 9/11 anniversary Anger over tax rise but Maastricht fair still makes major sales 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 Hirst auction not for us NEW YORK. Christie’s would not have staged the famous Damien Hirst sale, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, which was held at Sotheby’s London on 15 and 16 September 2008. “I think the Damien Hirst sale had pretty extreme inherent conflicts of interest that, to my mind, probably pushed the boundaries of what is believable in an auction and what isn’t, so I don’t think we as an auction house would have taken that sale on in that form,” said Christie’s chairman Ed Dolman at a panel discussion in New York last month. ... READ MORE articles “I get a lot of amusement putting what’s downtown, uptown” New York gallerist Paul Kasmin, the son of a dealer himself, tells us why he likes creating crowd stopping installations with artists “Giacometti enabled me to know myself better” Alberto Giacometti’s last surviving model, Paola Carola, on the sculptor’s enduring influence and how he changed her life Small world of sex and violence Nathalie Djurberg’s disturbing films set to the music of her partner Hans Berg take clay animation to a new level Museums should not fear the art snobs By assuming that the entire public is good enough to be in the museum, the Met could become a centre of human wisdom for everyone Outcry over lab’s decision to stop printing 16mm film Tate Modern curator and leading artist head protests Russian sales heat up The market is becoming broader, with Ukrainians, Kazaks and even Asians buyers joining the scrum Italian bank launches contemporary art prize New €150,000 UniCredit Venice Award will be given to a Eastern European artist taking part in the Venice Biennale all articles video Marc Quinn on Self, Sphinx and Saatchi Marc Quinn talks about his Self works - the series of heads created from his own blood - and the mythology that arose from Charles Saatchi's fridge freezer, as well as his Kate Moss sculptures and other works in this exclusive interview filmed earlier this year in Basel. Theory, Practice & the Secret Service Suzanne Treister, sets the record straight about her so called 'conspiracy theory' tendencies. Mingling fact with fiction in her works which include images referring to former MI5 director Stella Rimington, Treister explains the origins of her works in this frank interview by Jean Wainwright.. more videos exhibitions The Abtenau Altarpiece Two delicate and expensive restoration projects are celebrated this month as Utrecht’s Centraal Museum and Vienna’s Lower Belvedere open shows devoted to the conservation of early 16th-century altarpieces.At the Belvedere, Andreas Lackner’s sculptural Abtenau Altarpiece of 1518, comprising figures of Saints Blaise, Rupert and Maximilian, goes on display following six months of cleaning and re-gilding... jobs Power Corporation of Canada Curatorial Internships Program The Power Corporation of Canada Curatorial Internships encourage students and recent graduates born on or after 1 January 1981 across the design disciplines to become acquainted with the CCA collection, conservation, educational, exhibition, publication, and research programs through an internship of 6 to 12 months at the CCA.