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Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser . 18 august 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: US artists must fight for resale rights Gallery system is structurally weak Culture ministry condemned over running of archaeological sites Nouvel’s latest plan for the Ile Seguin Dutch government refuses to back down over huge budget cuts Budapest director’s double vision for national museum Opposition grows to Jerusalem’s museum of tolerance Oslo could get a contemporary art space bigger than the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern 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 Stealing the Mona Lisa NEW YORK. On 21 August 1911, someone entered the Salon Carre of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, removed the Mona Lisa from the wall, unfastened the clamps holding the panel to its frame, and walked off. A painstaking police investigation followed, as newspapers fumed over such a brazen theft. Police failed to capture the thief until he tried to sell the painting in Florence more than two years later... READ MORE all articles articles Auctions on holiday While most of Paris shuts down in August, regional centres profit from the mass evacuation from the capital by holding annual art sales China on show, north of Copenhagen Louisiana’s director, Poul Erik Tøjner, on supporting Ai Weiwei Gallerist sues “SpongeBob” artist over alleged heist While cartoonist claims that dealer was operating a massive fraud Fewer western exhibitors at Art Fair Tokyo A change of dates, necessitated by Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, led to gallery cancellations, but visitors still turned out all articles video Shaun Gladwell and Maddest Maximus Shaun Gladwell talks to Jean Wainwright at the 2009 Venice Biennale where his work Maddest Maximus is on display in the Australian Pavillion.Influenced by the movie Mad Max before venturing into the outback of Australia himself, Shaun explores the scale and lonliness of this vast landscape with his recreation of the car from the film. Pavilion Feature - America Curator Lisa Freiman discusses artists' Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla works commissioned for 'Gloria' - a collection of 6 installations exhibited at the American pavilion of the Venice Biennale this year. Combining performance with sculpture and video art, the collaborative pair created a bold statement whilst their overturned tank outside the pavilion dominated the Giardini. more videos what's on Jacob Holdt: Faith, Hope and Love ODENSE. The Danish photographer Jacob Holdt has been taking pictures of America’s grim underbelly and its privileged elite for more than 40 years. Hitchhiking his way across the country, Holdt has stayed with more than 400 people in their homes, from the desperately poor to the very rich, and recorded his experiences in “American Pictures”, a series of more than 20,000 photographs, of which about 200 are ­included in “Faith, Hope & Love”. Holdt calls his work a “cinematic narrative on racism” and... all exhibitions jobs MA courses in the history and business of art, IESA (Institut d'Etudes Superieures des Arts) IESA offers two MAs for students wishing to enter the art world one on the history of collecting and one on the contemporary art market. all jobs The Art Newspaper, 70 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1RL