NewsArt market
Christie's closes access to historic archive due to staff cuts
The vast collection of auction catalogues dates back to Christie's very first sale in 1766 and has been an invaluable resource for dealers and academics
NewsWallace Collection
Art library and archives at London's Wallace Collection could close to public as part of cost-cutting plans
Petition claims management want to ‘orientate the museum to income generation’
NewsMuseums
Building a picture of the pandemic: Smithsonian curators capture Covid-19 in real time
Museum curators chart the human angle of the crisis, but collecting material on recent events comes with ethical considerations
AnalysisArchives
The deaccessioning debate: 1990-2020
The disposal of objects from museum collections has been a source of controversy for decades. Did 2020 mark a turning point in the debate?
NewsAmerican art
Oklahoma museum receives vast archive related to 'Black Wall Street' and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Gilcrease Museum has also received a $300,000 grant to conserve and digitise the ephemera collection "so that these atrocities would not be forgotten"
NewsArchives
Theaster Gates, Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman: the best of artist interviews over the past 30 years
The Art Newspaper's Review editor Ben Luke picks his favourites from the archive
NewsTate Modern
Tate Modern turns 20
To mark the London museum’s big birthday, we have searched our archive for our favourite articles on the institution, from a critic's take on the café’s cuisine to an interview with Tate’s former director Nicholas Serota ahead of the Switch House’s opening in 2016
FeatureConservation & Preservation
Digital technologies allow us to create precise copies of artefacts—but what does this mean for the idea of 'authenticity'?
Online book demonstrates the groundbreaking work by Factum Foundation to create high-resolution facsimiles but also raises questions of value
NewsArchives
Market forces still at work: why we need to look to our past to understand our future
Our first collection of archival stories looks at the major financial shifts and trends that have impacted collectors and those in the trade since 1990—and continue to be relevant today
NewsLucas Museum of Narrative Art
Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum acquires major archive of African American cinema
Although its building is still under construction, the institution is partnering with Lacma on a one-day film programme in South Los Angeles next month
NewsCatalogues raisonnés
Secret papers on famous artists including Gauguin, Renoir and Monet to be revealed
New York-based Wildenstein-Plattner Institute will digitise fabled Wildenstein archive of sale catalogues, letters and experts’ notes
NewsBrooklyn Art Library
Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook project expands
Library of more than 45,000 artists’ sketchbooks is planning to become a non-profit, and help establish satellite venues around the country
BlogIn the frame
Revealed! UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s arts policy ...from 2004
NewsBritish Museum
British Museum to display hundreds of thousands of archived artefacts in new storage facility
BM Arc will provide the institution with 15,628 sq.m to show its objects in greater context and increase public access
NewsArab Image Foundation
Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer
NewsResearch
Palestinian stories reconstructed through films, photographs and artefacts confiscated by Israel
An Israeli art historian has spent 20 years trawling the country’s archives for Palestinian cultural property
NewsResearch
New hope for lost Frida Kahlo painting
Expert says new evidence could reveal location of Mexican artist’s biggest work, which “disappeared into thin air”
News
Into the archives: Ralph Rugoff on three key shows at the Hayward Gallery
Ahead of its reopening and 50th anniversary celebrations, the institution's director looks back
NewsArchives
Paris to open an LGBT archive centre in 2020
Move spurred by recent success of 120 Beats per Minute film about Aids activism
ArchiveAmedeo Modigliani
Modigliani archive ruling against granddaughter
Nechtschein-Modigliani does retain moral rights over the artist's work, however
ArchiveDigital Age
The race to digitise the world’s heritage
Non-profit organisation has big plans to gather data from 500 sites over the next five years
ArchivePerformance art
Audio archive breaks silence on Sehgal
Curator’s interviews with performers could prove a “goldmine” for scholars, skirting the artist’s ban on documentation of his work
ArchiveExhibitions
Ch… ch… ch… ch… changes at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the first institution to gain access to David Bowie’s 75,000-item archive
ArchiveBerlin
Web salvation for workers’ art as GDR artists are digitally rehabilitated
Shunned since the Wall fell, East German works are now catalogued on the 'Bildatlas'
ArchivePhotography
Tate to redact photo archive
Post discussions, a decision is made.
ArchivePhotography
Books: A heavyweight volume trawls the archives of Magnum Photos to celebrate a once revolutionary, now dying technique
In between the (contact) sheets
ArchiveTate
Tate admits error in giving away confidential export data as archive is offloaded to Paul Mellon Centre
The photographic archive of paintings was transferred in haste - twice
ArchiveMuseums
For the record: Artist interviews recorded as part of MoMA’s oral history project
James Rosenquist and Ed Ruscha are among the artists talking about their work for posterity
ArchiveJeffrey Deitch
Deitch archive will remain on site in Soho
The archive is expected to be available to the public by spring 2011
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA and Asian Art Archive explore the evolution of Chinese contemporary art
Many key documents now translated
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
Battle over Joseph Beuys collection at Moyland Castle
Widow claims artist’s reputation is being damaged
ArchiveMark Rothko
Why the Tate turned down Rothko’s offer of 30 paintings
Archives reveal the events behind director Norman Reid’s decision to accept only nine of the artist’s pictures
ArchiveBooks
Restoring Charles I's queen to her rightful place as a major collector and patron of the arts
Henrietta Maria: patron, collector and propagandist
ArchiveTate
Tate to launch Tate Channel, a film and video resource
This ambitious project will serve as an archive, allowing unprecedented remote access to information and art
ArchiveBooks
How the Verneys, whose seat, Claydon, is a National Trust treasure, fared in the turbulent 17th century
A true story of love, war and madness
ArchiveNews
Film-maker claims Warhol sexuality cover up
Denying the artist’s homosexuality makes his work more saleable, she says
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Rediscovered Bacon “rubbish” could fetch £50,000
Documents and paintings will be sold at a country auction
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA puts collection inventories online
This move will substantially increase the accessibility of it's collections
ArchiveLawsuits
Court action after Renoir archive fails to sell at auction
Collector sues family trust which had withdrawn the artist’s belongings from sale
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum and the attempt to buy Mantuan roundel
The Art Newspaper requested full information
ArchiveArchitecture
Letters to the editor: doubts about the need for a V&A Architecture Centre
Architects no longer need vast resources of the printed word.
ArchiveTate
Tate acquires Bacon archive
Barry Joule collection makes its way into public hands
ArchiveTate
Tate’s archives go online
A first step towards the future
ArchiveArchives
A donation from the Kreitman Foundation has supported this month’s opening of a huge but little known archive of artists’ letters, notebooks, photos and ephemera
The trifles and hidden lives of artists
ArchiveBooks
Book review: 'For the King’s pleasure' is a meteorite of a book
This account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings is a landmark in the history of writing about the decorative arts
ArchiveTate
Kreitman’s donation opens Tate archive to the public
Spring 2002 to see new Research Centre at Millbank
ArchiveArchitecture
Letters: the V&A and RIBA partnership realises that historical architectural materials do have value
A reply correcting some out of date assumptions
ArchiveArchitecture
One of Britain’s leading architectural historians has serious doubts about the Victoria & Albert Museum’s plan to be a “National Centre for Architecture"
Do modern architects use historic architectural material?
ArchiveArchives
V&A off limits to women in 1913?
Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement
ArchiveJames McNeill Whistler
From the secret archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum: flinging more than a paint pot
The opening of a file on James McNeill Whistler, embargoed for a century, reveals him to have been a violent brawler, a racist and a gun-runner
ArchiveNovember 1998
Exploitation of the Tate Archives: Trial of accused paintings fraudster
John Drewe donated money to the Tate and allegedly doctored its documents
ArchiveArchives
Revealed: what happened to the “degenerate” art in Germany’s museums, from G to Z
A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis
ArchiveTate
The Tate Gallery: What The Queen, Mark Rothko, Peggy Guggenheim and Barbara Hepworth all said.
In Britain, official papers are revealed after thirty years. The Art Newspaper was ready and waiting to see what was—and what might have been
ArchiveBarbara Hepworth
Tate finally gets some of Hepworth archive
After much controversy surrounding the archives release, Sir Alan Bowness releases part of the archive to Tate
ArchiveArchives
Fifty great stories The Art Newspaper has carried since we first hit the news-stands in October 1990
Celebrating our fiftieth issue with fifty of our best
ArchiveBarbara Hepworth
The Hepworth papers: why the delay?
Despite the sculptor’s wishes, Alan Bowness has failed to hand her papers over to the Tate
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Marcel Duchamp: Life is a game; life is art
From 4 April to 18 July the Palazzo Grassi is showing a 300- work exhibition by Pontus Hulten of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the artist whose ideas have pricked through the whole history of twentieth-century art. Here we publish one of his last interviews, made in 1966
ArchiveCharles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi: the man and the market. The Art Newspaper was given access to the Saatchi archive to chart the transformations of this world famous collector’s taste
As “Sensation!”, the exhibition of the Saatchi collection of young British art, opens at the Royal Academy we ask what drives Saatchi to buy, and risk, so much