Race to save £300 million Titians for UK
A pair of Titian paintings of Diana, goddess of the hunt, are being offered to the National Gallery of Scotland (NGS) and the National Gallery (NG) in London for £100m. Once part of the Bridgewater collection, these could well be the most important works of art to come onto the British market since... >>
Martin Bailey | News | 28.8.08
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Ellsworth Kelly Part 1
Anna Somers Cocks talks to veteran American painter Ellsworth Kelly about the main influences of his career.
News
The most important loan in British history
The Bridgewater collection was assembled by the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, mostly in the 1790s, and after his death it passed to the Dukes of... >>
Martin Bailey | 28.8.08
Bacon show for Zhukova and Abramovich
CCC Moscow, the new gallery set up by Daria Zhukova, girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, will host a Francis Bacon exhibition in... >>
Sarah Thornton | 28.8.08
Iraq’s top archaeologist says looting of sites is over
The leading archaeologist in Iraq says that sites are no longer being targeted by professional looters. The Art Newspaper spoke by telephone... >>
Martin Bailey | 28.8.08
Museums
China bans loans to show on Cultural Revolution
NEW YORK. The Chinese government has attempted to censor an exhibition about the Cultural Revolution opening next month at New York’s Asia Society,... >>
Jason Edward Kaufman | 20.8.08
Guggenheim Bilbao director admits to E4.2m loss
NEW YORK. The director of the Guggenheim Bilbao, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, has admitted that the Spanish museum lost e4.2m of public money when it... >>
Charmaine Picard | 14.8.08
New cultural district for Oslo
OSLO. The city of Oslo has announced a plan to move several museums and its main library to a central waterside location near the harbour and close... >>
Clemens Bomsdorf | 14.8.08
British scholar appointed director of Qatari museum
LONDON. Dr Oliver Watson is returning to the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Qatar as director, after spending three years as Keeper of the Department... >>
Georgina Adam | 31.7.08
Art Market
Saleroom has a problem with a house
While the sub-prime crisis rumbles on, at the other end of the housing market there are problems too. Richard Neutra’s house for Edgar Kaufmann in... >>
Brook S. Mason | 7.8.08
Kahlo photographs on offer after long museum tour
NEW YORK. A collection of photographs of Frida Kahlo that has toured American and European museums over the past five years is for sale through its... >>
David D’Arcy | 24.7.08
Police return photographs seized from gallery
LONDON. The New South Wales police force has decided not to prosecute the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney or the artist Bill Henson for an exhibition... >>
Katharine Albritton | 24.7.08
Munch prices “driven up by thefts”
According to auctioneers, works by Edvard Munch have significantly increased in price as a direct result of the 2004 robbery of the artist’s The... >>
24.7.08
Conservation
Monastery on Mount Athos rises from ashes
LONDON. Four years after a devastating fire, the Serbian monastery of Hilandar is rising from the ashes on Mount Athos, the male-only Orthodox... >>
Martin Bailey | 31.7.08
US gives $1m to repair home of the Hindu gods
The US Department of State has awarded around $1m to the World Monuments Fund (WMF) for conservation work on Phnom Bakheng (below), the oldest temple... >>
Jason Edward Kaufman | 1.7.08
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The most important loan in British historyEditorial & Commentary
All you may need is one correct observation to unlock the meaning of a masterpiece.
: Academics don’t know it all
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Loan fees risk killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
Once upon a time, museums lent to exhibitions almost exclusively according to whether they thought the show was intellectually worthwhile and the work of art was fit to travel. This meant that the... >>
Anna Somers Cocks | 27.7.08
Damien Hirst is rewriting the rules of the market (1)
The final frontier protecting contemporary art galleries from the relentless encroachment of the auction houses has been emphatically breached with the announcement that Damien Hirst is creating an... >>
Roger Bevan | 1.7.08
Features
“Big galleries such as ours, will help by setting standards”
BASEL. Chinese curator Leng Lin who founded the Beijing Commune in 2004, a centre showing emerging and established Chinese artists, is the new director of PaceWildenstein’s Beijing gallery.The... >>
Julia Michalska | 14.8.08
“I am not trying to illustrate my personal experience”
Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut in 1952 and studied there at the American University. In 1975 she came to Europe on holiday and was stranded in London when Beirut airport was closed due to conflict.... >>
Karen Wright | 7.8.08
Child’s play: the 65-ft skyscraper made from a toy set
What My Dad Gave Me is US artist Chris Burden’s most monumental work to date, a 65-foot skyscraper made from a million stainless-steel replicas of pieces from Erector Set, a toy which allows you to... >>
Adrian Dannatt | 7.8.08
Meet China’s top collector of contemporary art
Guan Yi, 42, has assembled the most important holdings of contemporary art in China. He comes from a family which made huge sums of money in chemical manufacturing in Qingdao but in 1997 ceded... >>
Chris Gill | 24.7.08
Books
Roman emperors are exceedingly good value. After two millennia, they are still with us, still capable of surprising and entertaining, of impressing and appalling, of defining their own era while... >>
Amanda Claridge | 1.7.08