Culture coach: the week's essential arts stories

Berlin worried about its Old Masters, and Sam West and Andrew Lloyd-Webber spoke out about arts funding in Britain• Ben Hoyle of the Times (paywall) has a peek behind the scenes of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands: "When the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam closed its doors for renovation work in December 2003, it was expected to reopen by 2006. Nine years and €375 million later, most of it public money, one of the world's greatest museums is still a building site… but the end is finally in sigh...

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