French decorative arts apparently recession-proof
The international market absorbs the Polo, Patiño and Johnson collections in one year. Tous les Louis do well but Louis XVI best of all
Art lover claims c1.25 million Old Master should not have left country
Private collector vs State in Spain
Watts Gallery needs urgent help to save the charming but dilapidated institution
Hidden in the English countryside, a Victorian time-warp is slowly falling apart
Serious doubts about “Alhambra” vase sold at Drouot for E3.6 million
Big price, big fake?
This book by a leading London dealer analyses the market from 1970 to the present
Christopher Wood's "The great art boom"
The V&A opens first gallery devoted to the history and meaning of ornament
From rinceaux to Reeboks
Rembrandt under X-ray at the British Museum
Medical technology is being utilised to obtain clear images of watermarks
Interview with Federico Mayor, UNESCO director general: Surveying the role of UNESCO
“A way of thinking that has visible form”
Despite a slow start, enthusiasm for the Antique is evident at the TEFAF Basel
The TEFAF Basel saw only 12,500 visitors, but some good sales nonetheless. Could the organisers have promoted it more?
Indian art generates solid sales as Persian market shows signs of life: Indian, South East Asian and Islamic sales 1995
Strong bidding from expatriate Iranians recalls pre-Revolution prices
V&A strangles its watercolours with artspeak
Illustrations partially compensate for jargon
Holy Russia at the V&A, touring exhibition is repackaged for the UK
Via many points in the US
Spain's greatest tapestries cleaned by aerosol
The oldest working tapestry weavers in Flanders apply high-tech to some of the finest royal hangings
Ha-Ha: the National Trust goes contemporary with outdoor art
England's stately homes embrace Davey and Goldsworthy
Matisse exhibition moves from MoMA to Pompidou Centre
Initial plans to tour the exhibition to Russia have now been shelved
Dealers, collectors and Christie’s to fund Chatsworth book
New book will cover the 1,000 Italian drawings in the Chatsworth collection
Tate planning a national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century’s done
Tate makes early bid for National Lottery largesse to expand southward
Bonn borrows MoMA pictures for a survey of the 20th century
The Museum of Modern Art has loaned 70 paintings for the first in a series of major exhibitions
New gallery showcasing 20th-century design opens at the V&A
Spanning the history of consumer design from 1900 to 1992, it aims to explore design ideas, techniques and materials as well as individual pieces and mass-produced objects.
Cave paintings: Radiocarbon dating, a penguin, plus fakes
Carbon dating for the Altamira caves, a penguin troubles sceptics at the submerged Grotte Henri Cosquer, and the sponge is a give-away at Alave
Sotheby’s President Michael Ainslie discusses the 1991 figures
Decorative arts no longer the Cinderella
Private high-tech raids on shipwrecks abound with the watery provenance providing strong sales at auction
National Maritime Museum laments “smash and grab” approach of private salvage operations but who else has the funds?
Warsaw borrows Stanislas’s paintings from Dulwich
“Collection for a King” opens on 5 May
A loyal tribute to Queen Elizabeth at the V&A but let’s hope it makes them money
Celebrating Elizabeth’s forty-year reign with robes, regalia, royal presents and memorabilia
New school curriculum report: Leonardo for seven-year-olds?
A renewed emphasis on Western art is apparent
Only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior in Europe installed at the V&A
After twenty years in boxes a friend of the patron’s family funds its display
Fake Giacometti furniture trial ends with jail sentences and fines for Jacques Redoutey and suppliers
Experts complain that large number of fakes in the market makes it difficult to identify authentic works
Iraqis deny thefts from the Muslim shrines of Kerbala and Najaf
Follows disappearance of jewels, manuscripts
Your Diego Giacometti may well be a fake: Massive fraud network between Besançon, Geneva, Paris, London and New York
It is estimated that between 65-80% of Giacometti furniture and sculpture offered at auction since 1986 is fake