ArchiveRobert Ryman
White-out at the Tate as Ryman exhibition begins its journey
Robert Ryman exhibition shared with MoMA, New York, will also travel to Madrid, San Fransisco, and Minneapolis
ArchiveIstanbul Biennial
The Istanbul Biennial looks east (Eastern Europe, that is)
The Turkish capital has curators, collectors and galleries—if the government pitches in, it could become the leading destination for contemporary art in the Middle and Near East
ArchivePhillips
Contemporary sales, London: Phillips struggles in bid to lead auction week
But Bacon brings profitable business to Christie’s and Sotheby’s
ArchiveCollectors
Another private collector opens his own gallery
A new contemporary art gallery for Barcelona
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Robert Storr, director of the 2007 Venice Biennale: "I would recommend dramatically increasing the number of national pavilions"
In the second part of our interview with Storr, he considers the question of how to make the historic event truly representative of today’s global art world
ArchiveHerzog
First Tate Modern, now Herzog & de Meuron convert power station in Madrid
Spain's La Caixa follows in Tate's footsteps
ArchiveArt market
Contemporary auction sales report: Boom continues, leading to some inexplicable results
One buyer pays against the odds for Sean Scully, while new records are set for Chilida, Hockney and Baselitz, among others
ArchiveSotheby's
Two plump catalogues prove the major auction houses can drive the contemporary market
A week of new records will leave dealers wondering how to set their prices
ArchiveArt market
Rumoured sale of Damien Hirst's formaldehyde tiger shark to US billionaire Steve Cohen confirmed by Saatchi Collection
Scepticism surrounds the supposed value of $12 million
ArchiveChristie's
Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s walk away from their contemporary sales claiming to have bettered their rival
Sotheby’s scored a superior strike rate, but marginally lower proceeds
ArchiveAuctions
The latest auction results show a boom in figurative art (of the right kind)
Collectors of Modern art are paying fancy prices for Richter, Barceló and Doig
ArchiveArt market
Post-War and Contemporary sale report: where have all the Warhols gone?
Record prices for Andreas Gursky, Peter Doig, Luciano Fabro and Douglas Gordon
ArchiveArt market
Contemporary and Post-war art auction sales do better than expected
Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood and Cecily Brown prove that it’s never too soon to be an auction star
ArchiveArt market
Ads for art get professional with a $6 million budget for eyestorm.com
A slick campaign of prominent ads for multiples by contemporary artists is being counted in London, New York and San Francisco
ArchiveJosé Berardo
José Berardo’s collection goes public
Financier unveils his new museum in Sintra’s former Casino with a collection formed in just four years
ArchiveTracey Emin
Tracey Emin makes a show of herself in Camberwell
The South London Gallery exhibits a range of the artist's work from the avian to the erotic
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Pompidou Bacon survey makes its way to Munich
David Sylvester’s comprehensive survey includes works which Bacon himself tried to destroy
ArchiveChristie's
New York auction houses appeased as Monet and Giacometti achieve solid prices and Japanese bidders clinch record sales for Gris
Impressionist and modern sales '96 report
ArchiveArt Basel
New Young Art Fair allows smaller galleries to appear alongside Art Basel
The fledgling fair will operate in tandem with the main fair, which has attracted 250 participants from twenty countries
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Exceptional new Bacon survey on show at the Pompidou
An Italian designer and considerable use of natural light for David Sylvester’s new survey of nearly ninety paintings, which includes working studies never previously exhibited
ArchiveLeon Kossoff
Leon Kossoff: “A tortoise obsessed with oily stuff?”
Memorably described by Robert Hughes, the art of Leon Kossoff can be seen in London this month
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Bacon at last meets the pope as Velázquez comes to town
The National Gallery will display Portrait of Pope Innocent X with Bacon's reinterpretations
ArchiveCopyright
Copyright and censorship in Chapmanworld: how far can they go?
Despite the dilemmas posed by their work, Jake and Dinos Chapman's first major exhibition in a public gallery is opening in London
ArchiveCollectors
A century of tradition: looking at the art lovers of Chicago
Money from finance, industry and the law fund some of the city’s leading buyers and contemporary art is high on their agenda
ArchiveTate
Contemporary from the Froehlich Foundation and sculptures from the friends to swell ranks at Tate
Austrian industrialist Joseph Froehlich is loaning major works of German and American art to the museum while Friends of the Tate contribute several new gifts
ArchiveArt market
PaceWildenstein picks up the estate of Barbara Hepworth but delays its plan to open in London
Also in London, Lotta Hammer's gallery in Fitzrovia and "Some of my best friends are geniuses" curated by Jake Chapman
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
The Serpentine asks how good was Jean-Michel Basquiat, really?
The artist's complicated oeuvre makes it hard to judge if some works are forged - or if instead he was just having an off day
ArchivePaul Cézanne
Rare migration of French blockbuster
Cézanne one of the few to cross the channel
ArchiveCollectors
Major Greek collector Dakis Joannou reveals ten years’ worth of buying for the first time in 'Everything That's Interesting is New'
Joannou's collection, which is particularly strong in installations and large scale work, can be seen in the Athens School of Fine Arts
ArchiveLisson Gallery
News from London: All the Turner prize gossip, while Lopez returns to Spain but Lisson gets bigger
Horsing around at the Serpentine doesn't hit the right spot for Wallinger collector
ArchiveExhibitions
Best current London exhibitions, December 1995
Warhol, Luciano Castelli and Sam Taylor-Wood
ArchiveMarc Quinn
What's on in London: the bawdy and the beautiful
White Cube and the Tate Gallery are showing Quinn's self-portraits as Annely Juda marks the end of WWII
ArchiveArt market
London Impressionist and Modern sales: Yes, it’s good, but will it last?
Picasso, Matisse, Miró and Dalí suggest that great works of art continue to command great prices in changing markets
ArchiveGeorg Baselitz
The Baselitz blitz: Survey at the Guggenheim Museum may bring the artist unprecedented recognition
Will this reappraisal change the artist’s critical fortunes in America?
ArchiveTate
Tate makes space for the cutting edge as 'Art Now' opens for contemporary art
An installation by Matthew Barney inaugurates a programme of innovative contemporary art long planned by Serota
ArchiveHong Kong
Bill Jacklin sells in Hong Kong with his 'Urban Portraits' of the city
The colony’s first artist-in-residence appeals to new local collectors
ArchiveUSA
Exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will attempt to encompass the breadth of the classification 'American-made'
Five American museums pool their resources to present their continent from ancient pottery to Andy Warhol
ArchiveArt fairs
A whiff of optimism for Madrid's ARCO with international outlook built on homegrown foundations
Twelve American dealers and seventeen private collectors invited
ArchiveSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"Into a New Museum" among exhibitions organised at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new location
The opening displays, with recent gifts of Matisse, de Kooning, Marden, Polke and Richter, show John Lane's success in wooing San Francisco collectors
ArchiveSotheby's
Contemporary sales report, London: Infectious enthusiasm pulls in bidders at Sotheby's
Bacon, Kitaj, Warhol and Richter attract keen competition
ArchiveCatalogues raisonnés
Books: A catalogue raisonné for Mark Rothko
Only Gorky and Pollock of his peers has so far been catalogued
ArchiveExhibitions
Touring exhibition shines new light on Josef Albers
More to him than “Homage to the Square”
ArchiveJune 1994
R.B. Kitaj: 'I begin my working day by falling asleep in front of my easel'
The American artist, who has lived in Britain for the past 35 years, is celebrated with a large exhibition at the Tate
ArchivePablo Picasso
A new view of Picasso as sculptor and painter at the Tate
The Tate Gallery's major spring exhibition is a reassessment of the role of sculpture in Picasso's career
ArchiveArt market
Unexpected success in contemporary auctions, where unidentified Californian collector buys $3.5 million Gorky and $925,000 Hockney
Despite lukewarm predictions and no blockbuster items there was increased buyer confidence
ArchiveTurner Prize
A look at the Turner Prize's contenders this year
Two favourites, two outsiders
ArchiveBen Nicholson
Ben Nicholson's ascending or descending reputation
Ben Nicholson centenary commemorated at the Tate
ArchiveAuction Report
Contemporary art sales 1994: Poor stock meets fittingly lukewarm response, exemplified by Sotheby's Warhol fiasco
Contemporary art sales '94 auction report
ArchiveArt Chicago
Too many fairs spoil the market in Chicago
But Blackman's New Pier Show promises well
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
That famous light on Bacon: Museo Correr shows major retrospective
David Sylvester curates an exhibition of the artist's finest works in Napoleonic rooms
ArchiveTate St Ives
In the land of King Arthur, towards the setting sun: Tate gallery, St Ives
A third branch of Britain's leading modern art gallery opens, with emphasis on the St Ives artistic community
ArchiveThe Grosvenor Gallery
The Grosvenor Gallery: Eric Estorick returns
Kapoor at Lisson with stage designs
ArchiveExhibitions
Only two years since his last show, Max Ernst exhibition opens at the MoMA this month
“Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism” concentrates upon fifteen years of fertile activity until 1927
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Swiss Bacon exhibition includes work he tried to destroy
Lugano makes attempt to compensate for losing best of the Thyssen collection
ArchiveExhibitions
London galleries: Minimal and Conceptual art at large
Lisson’s historical show unites major international artists
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
Americans hop on the Beuys bandwagon with MoMA exhibition as the artist's reputation takes off
The growing interest is further indicated by the Walker Art Center’s major acquisition
ArchiveExhibitions
Joseph Beuys retrospective opens at MoMA
A growing interest in Beuys in the United States indicated by the Walker Art Center’s major acquisition
ArchiveTate
Tate Gallery perseveres with rotating the collections in face of mounting criticism
New antagonism for New Displays as visitor figures drop in London
ArchiveAuction houses
Contemporary art sales 1992: Saatchi succeeds at Sotheby's and Freud nude provokes Christie's bidding war
Contemporary art sales '92 auction report
ArchiveExhibitions
The infancy of Pop Art on show at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art
Exploring the early works of Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol and the young masters of Pop
ArchiveArt market
What's on in London: Jacklin at Marlborough and Oxford’s MoMA
Scully is centrepiece of Cork Street’s Open Weekend
ArchiveObituaries
Obituary for Edward Warburg
The patron of the arts died aged 84
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
First American Basquiat retrospective to be held at the Whitney
Whitney director, David Ross, gambles on his political correctness
ArchiveJune 1992
Just what is it that makes Richard Hamilton so different, so appealing?
The artist gives a rare interview ahead of his Tate Gallery retrospective, weighing in on Pop Art and the Pop revival and the need for quality judgements in art and consumer society
ArchiveMichael Landy
Michael Landy’s “Closing Down Sale” at Karsten Schubert
Lisson’s On Kawara with Houshiary
ArchiveRobert Rauschenberg
Salvaging 1950s Rauschenberg: The artist's early work goes on show in San Fransisco
This exhibition recovers missing works and provides clues for his development
ArchiveTate
"New Displays" at the Tate Gallery makes special rooms for Joseph Beuys and Rebecca Horn
Important loans include portraits by Hogarth and Gainsborough and five landscapes by Constable
ArchiveCensorship
Jane Kallir mounts timely investigation into censorship of modern art
Exhibition gives historical context to denunciation of Mapplethorpe and Serrano
ArchiveExhibitions
William S. Paley’s remarkable collection revealed in exhibition at MoMA
Bequest of modern paintings and sculpture to tour American cities
ArchiveNews
Anish Kapoor wins Turner Prize
The three other artists on the short list were Ian Davenport, Fiona Rae and Rachel Whiteread
ArchiveArt market
Contemporary sale report: School of London resilient in contemporary art auctions
Francis Bacon’s “Pope” fetches top price at Sotheby’s
ArchiveGerhard Richter
Reflections on the Richter exhibition
Leading German artist showing at the Tate comments on his work
ArchiveGerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter survey at the Tate Gallery
Nick Serota launches into a new policy towards international contemporary art
ArchiveGerhard Richter
Richter in London
Invited by Serota
ArchiveRichard Hamilton
Hamilton shows at d’Offay (20 June - 20 August)
Three Colemans for the Lisson
ArchiveGerhard Richter
What's on: Richter and refrigeration units
Hot shows to see in London this month
ArchiveCharles Saatchi
As Charles Saatchi's collection of young British art opens at the Royal Academy, we ask what drives the collector to buy, and risk, so much
The Art Newspaper was given access to the Saatchi archive to chart the transformations of this world famous collector’s taste
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
ArchiveTurner Prize
Turner Prize in turmoil as last year's winner Long exhibits at the Tate
Serota seeks new sponsor for embattled competition