‘That’s not enough’: Willem de Kooning’s advice to a young Wayne Thiebaud
An excerpt from one of Thiebaud’s final interviews, which features in the catalogue of a survey at the Fondation Beyeler, reveals how the US artist arrived at his signature style
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
New cultural centre opens at Tlatelolco Square, Mexico City
And third Mexican collector loans his art to university
LA Mayor spares the city’s cultural department despite financial pressure
The philanthropist Eli Broad will help the organisation focus on attracting tourists
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
New evidence in Grosz Nazi loot case against MoMA
Museum disputes heirs’ claim for three works by the German painter George Grosz
New evidence uncovered in Warhol Foundation lawsuit
Collector says a signed work from the same series confirms his work is genuine
Still no plan for Richard Prince’s house
The artist’s fire-damaged Second House environment faces an uncertain future
MoMA tower to loom over Manhattan
Concerns over Jean Nouvel skyscraper, to house museum extension in its base
Leading collector plans contemporary art space in Mexico City
The museum will be drawn from the Jumex Foundation's 2,000 works
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
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
US collector returns artefacts to Greece
Shelby White returns two two fourth century BC objects
Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down
Leonard Lauder’s decision to leave the institution coincides with launch of $680m fundraising campaign
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
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
Controversial New York antiquities collector’s exhibition centre opens
Funded by Shelby White amidst controversy regarding the provenance of her personal collection
New York collector Shelby White returns antiquities to Italy
White's restitution of the illegally excavated objects is a first for the US
Wall Street collector opens private gallery in Chelsea
Artist Chuck Close is curating the inaugural show this month
Warhol Foundation report looks back on 20 years of philanthropy
The New York organisation has disbursed more than $200m in cash grants and art donations since the artist's death in 1987
Antiquities dealer Jerome Eisenberg returns Roman and Etruscan artefacts to Italy
The works had been illegally exported or excavated
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
Tate expansion by Herzog & de Meuron secures $100m from British state
Swiss duo stake claim to be the art world’s favourite architects
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
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
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
Warhol board faces threat of class action
Movie producer Joe Simon-Whelan sues, believing his work is genuine
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
Terracotta warriors to go on US tour
The British Museum show will travel to another four venues