NewsArt market
Phillips starts 2021 sales with a 17% leg up on last year
Despite the “headwinds” of Covid-19 and an extended UK lockdown, the firm raised £24.8m in its three-city livestreamed auction
PreviewExhibitions
Seeing Chaïm Soutine through the eyes of Willem de Kooning
A side-by-side show at the Barnes Foundation brings together two Expressionist greats who fused the figurative and the abstract in their work
NewsDiscoveries
The story behind a student who discovered Edward Hopper's earliest paintings were copies
New research finds teenage artist's landscapes were based on a magazine for amateurs learning how to paint
NewsPublic sculpture
Essex’s unlikely sculpture town is set for a renaissance
Built in the wake of the Second World War, Harlow maintains a remarkable collection with pieces by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Rodin
NewsMuseum acquisitions
While in lockdown, UK's Sainsbury Centre acquires major works by sculptor Elisabeth Frink
Acquisition from the artist's estate heralds a wave of works being dispersed across UK public collections
NewsDiscoveries
Cache of Russian avant-garde works surfaces in regional museum's basement
Art historian Andrey Sarabyanov is planning a new exhibition of forgotten pieces by Kandinsky, Rodchenko and Stepanova
NewsExhibitions
Here come the 'angels of anarchy': Surrealist women to steal the shows in 2020
Exhibitions in UK, Europe and US speak to growing public appetite for scholarship on the women of art history
ReviewBook Shorts
Not all about nudes: volume uncovers new area of Lucian Freud’s work
Best known as a portrait painter, the artist was also fascinated by plant life
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Beyond the Metaphysical: Milan show aims to reassess Giorgio de Chirico's late period
Major survey at Palazzo Reale will include his "most difficult" works as well as early pieces that inspired the Surrealists
ArchiveArt market
Decorative arts market report: The field is booming, fuelled by museum buying and style-hounds
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
ArchiveArt market
Decorative arts sales shift to Chicago
New York vies with London for nineteenth- and twentieth-century decorative arts sales, but Chicago is coming on quickly
ArchiveArt market
Post-1935 decorative arts, mass produced at exclusive prices
A survey of the decorative arts market
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Decorative arts from Art Nouveau and Deco to Werkbund, Bauhaus and Functionalism
Another floor opens up in the Bröhan Museum with its privately formed collection
NewsBauhaus
Big birthday is a boon for Bauhaus
Works on the stands at Art Basel show the market for artists associated with the German movement is hotting up in this centenary year
NewsDesign
Virgil Abloh picks five classics from Vitra Design Museum
The US fashion designer has curated a display at the museum and developed a line of limited-edition products
PreviewExhibitions
Grotesque, exotic, fantastic: Emil Nolde's road to Expressionism explored through three lenses
Survey exhibition of "degenerate" German artist at Zentrum Paul Klee includes works being exhibited for first time
ReviewBooks
What books in paintings mean
The significance of books in works of art
PreviewExhibitions
When the avant-garde met E=mc2: the story behind Dimensionism
Supported by prominent figures in its day, the little known movement is at last being rescued from obscurity
PreviewExhibitions
Hilma af Klint, the ‘mother of abstraction’, gets first major US show
More than 100 years after a spirit commanded her to break with naturalism, the vision of the Swedish artist is realised at the Guggenheim
PreviewExhibitions
Hairy who? The group that put a spell on the 1960s Chicago art scene
Art Institute of Chicago hosts first major survey of the loose artist collective
NewsOpenings
Bloomsbury group’s country home to open all year round
New shows at Charleston will celebrate the liberal legacy of the artists and intellectuals who gathered there
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Dresden’s Albertinum brings out East German art to ‘build bridges’
Museum director Hilke Wagner seeks to address lingering prejudices with exhibition and events
PreviewExhibitions
Secret lives: new show recasts Gala Dalí as 'much more than a muse' to artists
Exhibition in Barcelona looks at the life and work of the Russian best known for being the wife of Salvador Dalí
PreviewExhibitions
Key figure of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Charles White, finally gets his due
Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to celebrate artist and activist after lengthy search for works
PreviewExhibitions
Museums pay tribute to Vienna’s visionary voyeurs, Klimt and Schiele, on 100th anniversary of their deaths
The artists are the subject of exhibitions across the Austrian capital—and beyond
ArchiveArt fairs
Eighth edition of PAD London puts collectors in the right mood
Dealers also praise the friendly atmosphere
ArchiveArt fairs
Collectors find a richer mix of art and design with PAD in Berkeley Square
The art and design fair diversifies in response to competition from Frieze Masters
ArchiveArt Basel
Dealers spark intrigue at Art Basel 2013 as 20th century masterpieces jostle alongside the contemporary
Art Basel '13 fair report
ArchivePhotography
New Met exhibition explores pre-digital manipulation of photography
Photographers began manipulating their work long before the digital era
ArchiveFrieze
Spotlight: an alternative canon of 20th-century art or savvy sales strategy?
Frieze Masters both embraces and challenges the idea of 'masters'
ArchiveCollectors
Two museums promised a third of one of the great collections of modern American art
Which poses the question: will the late Hannelore Schulhof’s heirs sell major works?
ArchiveBooks
Books: The amazing and flamboyant career of the US collector Norton Simon
Collecting outside of the box
ArchiveCollectors
Actionist collection offered to Courtauld
Long-term loan from British collector would gather controversial works in public
ArchiveCollectors
After loans and offers of first refusal Portugal may lose billionaire's collection to Brazil
José Berardo doubts government will buy, and plans new art deco museum
ArchiveLouis Soutter
Louis Soutter: Corbusier’s favourite digital art
Soutter's art on view at Berlin's Galerie Haas & Fuchs
ArchiveCollectors
Property mogul David Roberts building Camden gallery to house contemporary art collection
Scottish businessman to open public space
ArchiveBooks
Sotheby's James Stourton glazes over the more cut-throat tendencies of private collectors in new book
This account by the UK chairman of Sotheby’s is enthusiastic but superficial
ArchiveArt fairs
London's British Art Fair, this year a smaller yet still sophisticated affair
The 20th edition drew wealthy local collectors, such as the Duchess of Westminster and Tim Rice, but it remains a niche event
ArchiveCollectors
Max Mara founder’s art to go on show in posthumous exhibition
A former clothes factory in Italy will house 200 works
ArchiveLee Miller
Former V&A photography curator Mark Haworth-Booth shines a spotlight on the photographer Lee Miller
Will he be rescued from obscurity?
ArchiveAuctions
Best results ever for Italian art at auction
An unnamed East European collector bought several works at both Sotheby’s and Christie’s
ArchiveTate
Tate considers National Gallery’s proposal to show early 20th-century art
Trustees discuss idea following our report
ArchiveNational Gallery
National Gallery may start acquiring 20th-century art
The move would put the institution in competition with Tate
ArchiveCollectors
Collector Bob Rubin's proves passion for Prouvé in $1 million restoration
The artist’s Maison Tropicale is on show this month at Yale
ArchiveVilla Borghese
Villa Borghese Orangery to be renamed the Bilotti Museum
Rome says yes to collector’s demands
ArchiveCollectors
Collector profile: Norman Braman and the Indian Creek residence furnished with contemporary masterpieces
The car tycoon has put together one of the greatest private collections of classic American art. Where does it go now?
ArchiveJoseph Cornell
New book and DVD explore the work of Joseph Cornell
Cornell's influence is traced to a breadth of modern art and poetry
ArchiveExhibitions
'Zoomorphic' an overview of contemporary architecture at the V&A Museum
Exploring the animal kingdom's influence on contemporary architecture
ArchiveExhibitions
Cruel and tender: the real in the 20th-century photograph
Now on at the Tate Modern
ArchiveExhibitions
The first ever retrospective of Guy Bourdin opens at the V&A
The exhibition features much more than the fashion shoots of the provocative French photographer
ArchiveArt market
The supply of surrealism on the art market means that collectors can still tap into this movement
The Surrealism sections of the February sales in London were the only to produce sparkling results
ArchiveExhibitions
Propaganda posters from the Schreyer collection at the V&A
Charting the growth of a 20th century medium of art and communication
ArchiveExhibitions
Art Deco 1910-39 at the V&A
Promises to be one of the most glamorous exhibitions of the year
ArchiveExhibitions
Le Corbusier before Le Corbusier: exhibition focuses on the formative years of experimentation
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Design and Culture
ArchiveExhibitions
Under Mussolini: decorative and propaganda arts of the Twenties and Thirties from the Wolfson Collection, Genoa
Estorick Collection
ArchiveCollectors
Four German collectors and their passions
The Anglophile, the Entertainer, the Benefactor and the America lover
ArchiveArt market
Diary of New York art advisors: Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen on trends in the decorative arts market
Sophisticated collectors are crossing over from 19th- and 20th-century painting
ArchiveBooks
John Richardson's "Sacred monsters, sacred masters", a vision of the idiosyncratic personalities that left their mark on the art world
John Richardson’s insights into the great artists and collectors of the last century
ArchiveDecorative arts
Vienna 1903-32: decorative arts from the Wiener Werkstätte
Historical Design
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Beyond the Glass Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum
100 new contemporary objects on display
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with artist Harold Stevenson, a Jean Cocteau of Idabel, Oklahoma
The high camp survivor who was friends with all the legends
ArchiveExhibitions
Utopia & Reality: modernity in Sweden 1900-60
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
ArchiveAndy Warhol
Warhol reexamined at the Tate
At the close of the century, Tate Modern looks back at one of the biggest names in 20th-century art
ArchiveLudwig Museum
All eyes on the collectors as Cologne's Ludwig Museum opens after renovation
The refurbished and extended Ludwig Museum has opened, with hundreds of Picassos on display and a colour-coded system for requesting sponsorship
ArchiveArtist interview
Hollywood actor Richard Gere in conversation with Balthus: Art, acting, life, and Captain Haddock
French-born painter Balthus, who died in February, rarely gave interviews and maintained that he delighted in being anonymous. His friend of 20 years, the actor Richard Gere, spent a few days at his Swiss home in December last year, where they enjoyed a long discussion, full of twists and turns
ArchiveArtist interview
Leon Golub is still getting to the real at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work
ArchiveApril 2001
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
ArchiveExhibitions
“Art nouveau” at the V&A and “1900” at the Grand Palais. Unity of the arts
Artists and designers 100 years ago were united in their embrace of modernity
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys' multiples on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
These works embodying the egalitarian nature of multiples have ironically been hidden from view until now
ArchiveArt market
Ritzy auction prices for homespun objects: American Arts and Crafts design receives boost in popularity from Barbra Streisand
“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts
ArchiveArt fairs
Established fair experiments in Art Cologne's twenty-third year
Big names for private collectors and big sculptures for museum curators
ArchiveExhibitions
Ninetieth-birthday tributes to Cartier-Bresson at the V&A
The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection
ArchiveClarice Cliff
Clarice Cliff collectors unite
A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent
ArchiveBooks
Lives of the collectors: Norton Simon and Hans Berggruen. Culture clash
Similar in many ways, the subjects of these two biographies present contrasting styles of operation in the art market
ArchiveArt market
Twentieth-century design sales in the US... Tiffany glass continues to climb
Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings
ArchiveAuctions
Former film star Jacqueline Delubac's collection raises FFr30 million (£3 million; $5.1 million)
Last curtain call for haute couture collector
ArchiveDecorative arts
The Windsor sale: Stéphane Boudin and the rise and rise of the decorator
Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques
ArchiveExhibitions
Biggest Art Nouveau show ever at the V&A
Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”
ArchiveSeptember 1997
Robert Rauschenberg: 'Business sure screwed up the art world universally'
On the occasion of his Guggenheim retrospective, the artist talks about his globe-trotting approach to “the adventure of art”
ArchiveBooks
Book review: Dutch decorative arts
Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940
ArchiveBooks
Books: Edward Lucie-Smith and the visual arts in the twentieth century
This survey covers everything from Impressionism to Damien Hirst. Have we moved from uniformity to diversity or to post-modern incoherence?
ArchiveArchives
Revealed: what happened to the “degenerate” art in Germany’s museums, from G to Z
A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis
ArchiveCollectors
Collector profile: Raymond Nasher, the world’s biggest private collector of modern sculpture
The shopping-mall millionare has been wooed by museums all over the world, but Dallas looks set to benefit from generosity in the great American tradition
ArchiveExhibitions
Victoria and Albert, until 27 July. The cutting edge
Tradition meets trendiness in this huge exhibition of British fashion
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
International designer fashion gift to the V&A
200 outfits to enter the collection
ArchiveExhibitions
American photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vernacular aesthetics and aesthetic vernacular
The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it
ArchiveNational Trust
Artist Derek Hill gives over eighty works of art to Mottisfont Abbey
First modern art collection for the National Trust
ArchiveCollectors
A Berlin homecoming: Interview with collector Heinz Berggruen on his collection's new home
After leaving Berlin in 1937, Berggruen will be placing his collection - which will go on show this autumn - on a ten-year loan with the Berlin State Museums
ArchiveExhibitions
Zooties, Flygirls and Cyberpunks: Street fashion exhibition at the V&A
The first exhibition to deconstruct street fashion
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Marcel Duchamp: Life is a game; life is art
From 4 April to 18 July the Palazzo Grassi is showing a 300- work exhibition by Pontus Hulten of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the artist whose ideas have pricked through the whole history of twentieth-century art. Here we publish one of his last interviews, made in 1966
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
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.
ArchiveCollectors
George Costakis' dramatic tale of collecting the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union: His own words
Some of his most prized works are now on show in the New York Guggenheim exhibition “The Great Utopia: the Russian and Soviet Avant-garde 1915-32”
ArchivePhotography
The fashion for fashion photos: any exhibition that deals with fashion is guaranteed box office success
A rising market for the Vogue shot: two shows, one at the V&A, the other at Hamilton’s
ArchiveExhibitions
As part of the current re-evaluation of Surrealism, an exhibition looks at André Breton’s works as well as the furnishing of his mind
André Breton: artist, writer, collector, at the Beaubourg
ArchiveAmedeo Modigliani
To the defence of the brilliant and tragic artist: Modigliani at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westphalen
With an excerpt from leading expert Werner Schmalenbach’s monograph
ArchiveExhibitions
Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger from the collection of connoisseur and collector Douglas Cooper at County Museum
The scattered works are once again reunited in a comprehensive view of the Cubist movement