InterviewFrom the archive
From the archive | Louvre pyramid architect I.M. Pei on the church-like museum he designed for the Goulandris collection
In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists
ArchiveNew Museum
New cultural centre opens at Tlatelolco Square, Mexico City
And third Mexican collector loans his art to university
ArchiveEli Broad
LA Mayor spares the city’s cultural department despite financial pressure
The philanthropist Eli Broad will help the organisation focus on attracting tourists
ArchiveMadrid
In Madrid,“Goya: images of women” shows current academic preoccupations while in Washington it will be more conventional
Double duty Goya: the travelling show adapts to its contexts
ArchiveMuseums
New evidence in Grosz Nazi loot case against MoMA
Museum disputes heirs’ claim for three works by the German painter George Grosz
ArchiveNews
New evidence uncovered in Warhol Foundation lawsuit
Collector says a signed work from the same series confirms his work is genuine
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA tower to loom over Manhattan
Concerns over Jean Nouvel skyscraper, to house museum extension in its base
ArchiveRichard Prince
Still no plan for Richard Prince’s house
The artist’s fire-damaged Second House environment faces an uncertain future
ArchiveMexico
Leading collector plans contemporary art space in Mexico City
The museum will be drawn from the Jumex Foundation's 2,000 works
ArchiveExhibitions
Abramovic takes over MoMA with The Artist is Present and a selection of past works
Artist reveals plans for the longest performance of her career
ArchiveDenver Art Museum
Denver Art Museum art-share deal under investigation for breaching deaccessioning guidelines
Billionaire collector was given a half share in a Charles Deas painting in exchange for funding a Thomas Eakins acquisition
ArchiveRestitution
US collector returns artefacts to Greece
Shelby White restitutes a marble relief fragment and a bronze calyx krater, both from the fourth century BC
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down
Leonard Lauder’s decision to leave the institution coincides with launch of $680m fundraising campaign
ArchiveRobert Rauschenberg
Interview with Robert Rauschenberg: Commemorating the artist
We reprint extracts from an interview with one of the most important artists of the post-war era
ArchiveChina
Contemporary art chosen for new US embassy chosen “to connect” to China
The new embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others
ArchiveAncient art
Controversial New York antiquities collector’s exhibition centre opens
Funded by Shelby White amidst controversy regarding the provenance of her personal collection
ArchiveRestitution
New York collector Shelby White returns antiquities to Italy
White's restitution of the illegally excavated objects is a first for the US
ArchivePrivate galleries
Wall Street collector opens private gallery in Chelsea
Artist Chuck Close is curating the inaugural show this month
ArchiveNew Museum
Mexico’s two biggest collectors join forces to form new cultural compound in Mexico city
Eugenio Lopez Alonso’s Jumex Collection is to open a building near Carlos Slim Helú’s new Soumaya Museum
ArchiveRestitution
Antiquities dealer Jerome Eisenberg returns Roman and Etruscan artefacts to Italy
The works had been illegally exported or excavated
ArchiveNews
Warhol Foundation report looks back on 20 years of philanthropy
Shedding light on the donations, grants, and gifts given by the foundation since Warhol's death
ArchiveTate Modern
Tate expansion by Herzog & de Meuron secures $100m from British state
Swiss duo stake claim to be the art world’s favourite architects
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA zeroing in on contemporary art with new associate director position
The former head of the Walker Art Centre takes up the newly created post next year
ArchiveAustria
Leonard Lauder’s Klimt landscape belongs to me, says heir of Nazi victim
Georges Jorisch is represented by Randol Schoenberg, the lawyer who last year won his eight-year case against Austria for the return of five Klimts to California resident Maria Altman
ArchiveBooks
New book gives an unsurprising look at the Metropolitan
A collection of interviews with museum employees—from director Philippe de Montebello to a café waitress—reveals few secrets
ArchiveRestitution
Field Museum returns Maori skulls
Chicago follows European trend
ArchiveArt market
Warhol board faces threat of class action
Movie producer Joe Simon-Whelan sues, believing his work is genuine
ArchiveNews
Terracotta warriors to go on US tour
The British Museum show will travel to another four venues
ArchiveNews
Grant for Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to catalogue Warhol’s “Time capsules”
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded the museum $600,000
ArchiveArt market
Trial Warhol prints may be authenticated in alleged policy adjustment for Authentication Board
A source close to the Andy Warhol Authentication Board hints at a change of heart
ArchiveArt market
Warhol Brillo boxes could be fake
Allegations circulate that curator Pontus Hultén created unauthorised replicas
ArchiveNews
New museum initiative designed to advance US foreign policy is looking for applicants
Can US museums help win the war on terror?
ArchiveForgeries
Photographer Peter Beard sues over forgeries at Sotheby’s
“Crude and brazen forgeries” of the artist's work are popping up in the market
ArchiveNews
Accountant alleges major fraud at art school founded by Andy Warhol
Charges focus on former executive director of the New York Academy of Art
ArchiveMay 2007
Seattle Art Museum gets $1bn worth of art from 'incredibly devoted group of collectors'
The gift from 53 local patrons is one of the largest in the history of institutional donations
ArchiveRestitution
Field Museum to return Maori remains to New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum in Wellington, will hold them until they can be identified
ArchiveTate Modern
The US environmental artist Alan Sonfist will recreate an ancient landscape near the ThamesPrimeval forest for Tate in London
Primeval forest for Tate in London
Archive US politics
NEA will establish new panel to select American artists for biennales
The State Department wants to promote programmes in the Muslim world
ArchiveExhibitions
Museums in the US and UK pay tribute to Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor, in the centenary of his birth
Celebrating the greatest Anglophile of them all
ArchiveApril 2007
MoMA defends director’s secret pay
Glenn Lowry received more than $5m through a separate trust which the New York museum's trustees argue was “legal and ethical”
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA’s secret fund for director
Trust payment “raises serious questions”
ArchiveFebruary 2007
Albright-Knox sells the old to pay for the new
Sotheby's is auctioning 200 antiquities and pre-Modern works worth $15m from the US museum's collection to raise funds to purchase Modern and contemporary art
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA sells land and secures room for expansion
The new deal will earn them approximately $65m
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Russian collectors at Art Basel/Miami Beach
“It’s like a supermarket”
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA puts collection inventories online
This move will substantially increase the accessibility of it's collections
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art
The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art
ArchiveMiami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum and Miami Art Central may merge
Collectors show their support for Miami art museums
ArchiveUnesco
Getty revises its guidelines for acquiring antiquities—again
Artefacts must have left their countries of origin by 1970, the year of the Unesco Convention, or have proper export documentation to be considered for purchase
ArchiveIran
Antiquities resembling those looted from Jiroft offered for sale by satellite of Manhattan's Salander O' Reilly Galleries
Gallery “unaware” of concerns over objects offered on website
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Most Russian collectors are at Art Basel Miami Beach to learn rather than buy
Russian collectors approach fair with care…
ArchiveMuseums
Latin American curator for MoMA
Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at the museum, is the institution’s first curator of Latin American Art
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA completes merger with PS1
“It is like another department at the museum,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry
ArchiveCorcoran Gallery and College of Art and Design
Washington DC. Corcoran’s future remains uncertain
The institution hopes a $2m V&A blockbuster exhibition of modernist design will draw visitors and sponsors
ArchiveRestitution
Italy gets antiquities back from Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The museum bought in good faith, but was shown evidence that they had left Italy illicitly
ArchiveRonald Lauder
Lauder raises $190m cash as Bloch-Bauer Klimts come up for sale
Austria and Los Angeles had both hoped to keep the works
ArchiveSponsorship
US foundations back new charity handing out grants to artists
The United States artists fund fills the vacuum created after the government suspended the National Endowment for the Arts in the '90s
ArchiveLaw
New legislation could lead to the end of partial gifts to museums
Changes to US tax law could discourage collectors from giving
ArchiveProvenance research
Provenance research is too expensive, museums tell Congress
The hearing concerning America's progress in returning Nazi loot to original owners discussed potential problems
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA generates $2 billion for New York, says report
Study calculates economic impact of 6.25m visitors over three years since the museum’s reopening in midtown Manhattan
ArchiveRestitution
Restitution pledge by US museums remains unfulfilled six years on
Results of survey lay bare how the US fell short
ArchiveRonald Lauder
Lauder pays $135m for Bloch-Bauer Klimt
The painting will go to the Neue Galerie
ArchiveRestitution
Getty antiquities to be returned to Italy
A joint statement by the Getty and Italian government says 21 pieces will go back
ArchiveProvenance
US museum directors debate antiquities provenance dilemma
Should museums acquire objects without provenance, which may have been looted? Yes, say several panelists
ArchiveArt fairs
Mexico's MACO remains a modest fair but draws major dealers
Exhibitor numbers are up 50%, with a few big names such as Hauser & Wirth
ArchiveLaw
Washington's National Gallery wraps up Vuillard catalogue plagiarism suit with $37,500 payment to Annette Leduc and Brooks Beaulieu
However, a complaint lodged against Guy Cogeval, Antoine Salomon and Mathias Chivot was met with a counter-suit arguing that evidence had been fabricated
ArchiveDenver Art Museum
Denver Art Museum gets $60m contemporary art gift
The collectors Kent and Vicki Logan donate 300 works of art and an endowment
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
Gagosian to open gallery in Rome
New director comes from Guggenheim
ArchiveZahi Hawass
“This mask belongs to Egypt”: Zahi Hawass demands repatriation of ancient Saqqara mask
Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, is asking the St Louis Art Museum to return an supposedly looted antiquity
ArchiveFeatures
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details
Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years
ArchiveMuseums
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish
Shortly before his death in January, William Rubin handed us his manuscript
ArchiveRestitution
Metropolitan to return antiquities to Italy
20 items that were looted or likely stolen are to be restituted
ArchiveRestitution
Mask on display at St Louis Art Museum "belongs to Egypt”
Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, is asking the museum to return an antiquity he says was looted from Saqqara
ArchiveUniversity of California
UCLA students get Richard Meier building thanks to $23m from Eli Broad
Philanthropist pays for nearly half the cost of new building
ArchiveEli Broad
Eli Broad breaks new ground at LACMA
Construction starts next month on the collector’s $50 million Modern art gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ArchiveFebruary 2006
Louvre gets a taste of US sponsorship as Atlanta's High Museum pays $10m to borrow works by Raphael, Rembrandt and Velázquez
The money will restore the French museum's 18th-century decorative art galleries and the collaboration seeks to improve US-French relations in the wake of the Iraq War
ArchiveArt theft
US colonel to lead antiquities anti-theft unit
Bogdanos attacks “cozy cabal of academics, dealers and collectors” who ignore provenance
ArchiveMuseums
Terry Riley to leave MoMA
The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm
ArchiveCollectors
Rome embraces another Florida-based collector, Bilotti
Loans to Palazzo Venezia and talks for new contemporary arts centre
ArchiveCollectors
Private collectors step in to fill institutional void in Palm Beach
Marvin and Elayne Mordes continue South Florida trend
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Calder Foundation's new space for exhibitions and encouraging scholarship
Dealers not welcome says director of Calder Foundation
ArchiveArt market
Art historians appointed to the Warhol Authentication Board to help judge attributions
The Warhol Foundation adds curatorial experts to attempt to ease the controversy surrounding its authentication board
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA appoints new chief curator of drawings
Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role
ArchiveCommercial galleries
Business as usual at Knoedler's renowned Upper East side branch after $500,000 restorations
The modernisation of this landmark is an example of Knoedler's adaptability, as one of the US's longest established commercial galleries
ArchiveExhibitions
Eclectic collector’s show raises questions at Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Visitors are confused and staff suggest that museum is neglecting its artistic mission
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Plans for Calder Museum in Philadelphia founder
Foundation fails to commit specific works to create the core of a permanent collection
ArchiveMiami
Rubells donate $1 million worth of art to Tampa Museum
The institution has received 91 paintings by the Outsider artist Purvis Young
ArchiveMarion True
Italian case against Marion True postponed to November
The case, which is the result of a decade-long investigation by Italian police, has been delayed because crucial documents had to be translated
ArchiveFrançois Pinault
Mr Pinault’s director returns to the Walker
Philippe Vergne had been appointed director of François Pinault’s foundation for contemporary art
ArchiveSalvador Dalí
Philadelphia Dalí exhibition generates $55 million
Every available ticket sold for this blockbuster show
ArchiveMuseums
New MoMA head of publications
Christopher Hudson follows up Michael Maegraith
ArchiveInterior design
A dealer is offering to mount high-tech plasma TVs in 19th- and 20th-century frames
For the collector who has everything
ArchiveAndy Warhol
US aluminium giant sends Warhol to Russia
The Alcoa Corporation is marking its entry into Russia by funding the tour of a Warhol Museum show
ArchiveJuly 2005
Future of US museum sponsorship in question after split of tobacco giant Altria
The Whitney and the Brooklyn Museum could lose annual grants from the conglomerate, which gave $300m to charitable organisations over the past five years
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA reshuffles its board
To consecrate the new building, the museum's board has received a massive overhaul
ArchivePuerto Rico
Inspired by collectors in Florida, a Cuban-born couple have opened a private museum
Bringing a little Miami to San Juan
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA to expand again, but not for a generation
The property was purchased during the expansion project, and includes all the land west of the museum between 53rd and 54th Streets and Sixth Avenue
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA committee to vote on major drawings collection gifted by Judith Rothschild Foundation
The foundation has offered the museum a collection of more than 2,500 drawings by 400 international artists
ArchiveMuseums
Heinz’s $4 million gift to the Warhol Museum
The gift increases the museum’s endowment to $7.1 million
ArchiveCalder Prize
Calder Prize to benefit artists and museums
The biennial award will be a hefty $50,000
ArchiveArt market
The $2.6 million Dalí retrospective comes to Philadelphia
A credit card company has spearheaded the massive publicity campaign for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition