ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Sean Landers: Appropriating Picasso “because I want to be as great as him”
“I would like to leave a sad, funny, little painting”
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Sackler Museum in Beijing turns 25 and plans expansion
As Sackler heirs continue to deny claims of involvement in US opioid crisis, Jillian Sackler honours Arthur’s achievements
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Tim Hunt—flâneur and the curator of the Andy Warhol Foundation—has died, aged 60
"He was the most charming, kind and witty individual imaginable, for whom nobody had a bad word, which is rare in the art world"
BlogBiennials & festivals
Dispatches from our man at the Antarctic Biennale: goodbye—until next time
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Dispatches from our man at the Antarctic Biennale: postcards from the edge
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Dispatches from our man at the Antarctic Biennale: around Cape Horn and homeward-bound
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: returning home
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: Desolation Island
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: Welcome to the Continent
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: an underwater art show
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: a whale of a day
BlogBiennials & festivals
Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: installing art for the penguins
BlogBiennials & festivals
Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: icebergs ahoy
BlogBiennials & festivals
Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: learning how to leave no trace
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: seasickness hits
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: Ushuaia with Yto Barrada
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'Critics say Pop artists love their subject matter. Bullshit!' Remembering James Rosenquist
Pop artist, who has died aged 83, told us ahead of his 2003 Guggenheim retrospective about subverting New York billboards as a young man
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Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: setting sail
Our correspondent, Adrian Dannatt, shares his diary from the expedition to the White Continent
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Paul Walter, the voracious New York collector, connoisseur and bon vivant pioneered photography collecting, has died
He was able to focus on the rare and the unique, and this was something the others learned from
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Meet Udnie, Picabia’s muse and America’s first supermodel
Biographer uncovers identity of avant-garde artist’s model and tells the story of her tragic life
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Robin Page: Pioneering British Fluxus artist and art-world rebel
Page found it hard to settle and survive, and most of his creative life was spent in a state of penury worthy of La Bohème
ArchiveMay 2013
Starry night for Tate in New York: celebrity friends help museum fundraise in style
Sarah Jessica Parker and the mysterious Tate Americas Foundation raise money for Latin American acquisitions
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Interview with Patti Smith: "I look at Jeff Koons’s stuff and I’m appalled”
The veteran rocker discusses the artists who inspire her, those who do not, and what drives her photography
ArchiveSalvador Dalí
News from New York: An evening with the British film-maker who gave as good as he got, and dinner with Prince Philip and his famous faux pas
Meanwhile, the Hamptons hot up
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Collector buying sight-unseen mistakes inches for feet and other art world gossip
Collector of Chinese contemporary gets more than he bargained for..
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The art of protest: Interview with Nancy Spero
Still angry in her 80s
ArchiveLawrence Gagosian
News from New York: Larry Gagosian gets exposed while US presidents get hosed
Meanwhile, doctors form an art club and Mimran takes on Type A
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Collector forced to remove Kiefer sculpture from his property after it is legally classified as a 'structure'
Andrew Hall says he will now loan the piece to Mass MoCA
ArchiveJanuary 2007
Jasper Johns: 'I was trying to see something, to see what seeing consisted of'
As a show devoted to his work from the 1950s and 1960s opens at the National Gallery of Art, Johns looks back on the decade
ArchiveJanuary 2007
Jasper Johns: 'I was trying to see something, to see what seeing consisted of'
As the National Gallery of Art opens a show devoted to the artist’s work from the 1950s and 60s, he looks back on the decade and reflects on the process of making
ArchiveMuseums
Former MoMA chairman’s oddball art goes under the hammer
William Lieberman’s eclectic holdings yielded bargains
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Interview with Allora and Calzadilla on putting everything in context
The duo discuss the political and humorous aspects of their work before a major show at the Moore Space in Miami
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
News from the US: Bush and Blair go under the (sledge) hammer, the Whitney suffers loan woes, and Rakowitz can't get a date
Tate’s US patrons applaud the destruction of cake effigies, while MoMA makes life difficult
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Thomas Scott Kaplan, a financier who owns one of the biggest silver mines in Latin America, is spending millions on design and 17th-century Dutch paintings
He is now the world’s biggest collector of modern furniture
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Interview with Bill Viola on new work Love/Death: Video is "about really seeing, not just stopping at the surface"
This month, the US artist is unveiling an ambitious new project in London based on his re-working of a Wagner opera
ArchiveArt fairs
Small fairs around the Armory show attract major collectors
Five satellite fairs keep up the pace
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Interview with Ruth Duckworth on her retrospective: “The older I get, the bigger my works and ideas become”
The ceramics grande dame thinks big
ArchivePaceWildenstein
News from New York: Rocking art, baffling awards, and PaceWildenstein hits a midlife crisis
The prestigious New York firm imitates younger, hipper galleries such as Deitch Projects with a show of video game art
ArchiveExhibitions
News from New York: Marathon sailing and cycling, while Marina Abramovic bares all
The Yugoslavian artist draws the crowds at the Guggenheim with her racy restaging of iconic performance art
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Marina Abramovic on her reperformances at the Guggenheim: Back to the classics
The Yugoslav-born artist will re-enact famous performances from the 1970s this month
ArchiveFeatures
News from New York: Turf wars in Tribeca
Artists, actresses and property developers compete for the best properties in the area
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
News from New York: Major Beuys work tipped for Beacon, while eco-artists discuss decomposition
And Connecticut energy broker Andrew Hall buys Georg Baselitz’s collection of German art
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Malcolm Morley: Paintings about the act of painting
After 50 years, Morley is still fascinated by the potential of the medium and is not too proud to learn from a “watercolour holiday” on an English barge with amateur artists
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Interview with Dennis Oppenheim on hid latest exhibition: “I could never stay with just one thing”
The veteran artist promises “truly radical” new work in his show at the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
No shortage of fanfare at Art Basel/Miami Beach opening
Art Basel/Miami Beach started as it meant to go on, a performance by the Scissor Sisters and "Art Loves Puppet Rock" attracting the art world's hip and happening
ArchiveCollectors
Marty Marguiles opens a new public exhibition space in Miami
Tracking the collector's vast collection from its inception to his newest project, 'The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse'
ArchiveArt Basel
Art Basel yields inconsistent profits for dealers as the cult of the new proves more potent than ever
Art Basel '04 fair report
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Barry Flanagan on his fascination with bronze: A tradesman, not an artist
Flanagan chooses to depict hares rather than people to steer away from the dominance of the portrait
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach reinforces its position in the hierarchy with steady flow of sales after an unpromising start
Art Basel Miami Beach '04 fair report
ArchiveArtist interview
Is it a bird? A plane? No, just a G-string: Interview with artist E.V. Day
E.V. Day on thongs, Stealth Bombers and why her latest work stretches elasticity to its limit
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with James Rosenquist on his month in Manhattan
Four exhibitions devoted to the Pop pioneer open this November, including a retrospective at the Guggenheim
ArchiveArt Basel
Works by younger artists for cheaper prices favoured at Art Basel 2003
Art Basel '03 fair report
ArchiveArt dealers
The Scottish garden hawk flies into New York, Louise’s new love, the youngest collector, and where to buy a book
Raising the flag in the West (Village)
ArchiveArtist interview
The art of allusion: Interview with Damian Loeb
Damian Loeb’s work relies on the viewer’s recognition of the visual sources that he quotes liberally
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Play again, Calder: Artist's toys back in production
A French company is re-producing toys by the inventor of the mobile
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News from the States: Police disperse rabid intellectuals while René Ricard mixes with the Amish
Serious over-crowding at Deitch gallery causes policemen to break up event organised by Black Magick witch
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Robert Indiana on LOVE, Pop, words and more
Indiana has emerged from his Maine retreat to claim his rightful place alongside his more famous contemporaries
ArchiveNew York
What's On in '03: New York's commercial galleries
Nancy Shaver's painted sculpture at Feature Inc. and James Castle's "Structures" at Knoedler & Co.
ArchiveArt Basel
Art Basel Miami Beach's debut uncovers secrets of success amidst the gloom
Buying mania at this new fair stripped some stands bare in 40 minutes
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Arman: "I do not want to end up in my own mausoleum”
The French artist on playing chess with Duchamp and collecting his own work
ArchiveExhibitions
Marina Abramovic's The house with the ocean view at the Sean Kelly gallery
The artist will be living for 12 long days within a set of purpose-built structures in the gallery while obeying a whole sequence of self-imposed strictures
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Steven Assael: Painting, the fullness of experience
The foremost figurative painter of his generation, talks about his passionate commitment to the art
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Warren Neidich: When scientists make art
Trained as a neurobiologist, his art is about ways of seeing both physiological and as affected by the high-tech visions around us
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
Art world news: Gagosian’s smooth dealings, Norton's $6 tantrum, and the new Roman takeover
Meanwhile, Ricard tries his hand at larceny while Blum's Judd masterpiece makes bank
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Mona Hatoum: Pass the electric fork, please
The artist uses kitchen utensils and household objects to charge domestic settings with danger
ArchiveArtist interview
Taken over by the doodle: Interview with Carroll Dunham
Like the Surrealists, Dunham believes that his unconscious dominates him as he works
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with artist Harold Stevenson, a Jean Cocteau of Idabel, Oklahoma
The high camp survivor who was friends with all the legends
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Cecily Brown: Goodness gracious! Dare one say landscape paintings?
Adrian Dannatt talks to a well primed young painter
ArchiveCy Twombly
What's on: Cy Twombly
Gagosian
ArchiveNovember 2001
Ghada Amer: when Islam was sensual
The Egyptian artist draws on a Medieval Muslim erotic text to create her hand-stitched works
ArchiveRichard Serra
What's on in New York: Serra’s solemnity and size at Gagosian
Posthumous popularity at Max Protetch, last works at Matthew Marks mapping at James Cohan, psychedelic audio-visual art at Feigen effective excellence at Zwirner, and homage at Universal Concepts
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Amanda Lear on being a celebrity and being an artist: "Everything that happened to me was completely by accident"
Actress, artist, disco diva, television star, lover of Salvador Dalí and a clutch of rock stars, talks about love, fame, fire and pain
ArchiveSeptember 2001
Jenny Holzer: towards the mot juste
The US artist on text being just one medium in her work and how trying to measure up to Goya can keep her motionless for months
ArchiveArtist interview
Synthesiser’s synthetic synthesis: Interview with leading New Media artist Leo Villareal
He talks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his upcoming show at White Columns
ArchiveArt fairs
Few standout sales as the young and up-and-coming benefit from more recreational buyers: Art Chicago 2001
Limited international collectors, but American museums, local collectors, tourists and children out in force
ArchiveEllsworth Kelly
What's on in New York: Contemporary art at its finest with Ellsworth Kelly still strong at Matthew Marks
Also on show are Mark di Suvero’s massive sculptures at Gagosian, and Charles Simond’s unfired clay at the Joseph Helman Gallery
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Shirin Neshat: Where madness is the greatest freedom
Telling universal stories about love, insanity, and death through film and music
ArchiveWhat's on
A round up of Manhattan art moments reveal a Hirst hidden in the digital dustbin, cuban prints and Kiki's perfectionism
Or your very own “Warhol” portrait for $265
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with artist James Metcalf: Metal mettle
The adventurer, war hero, metalworker, sculptor, and political activist talks about Paris in the 1950s and his work in Mexico
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Pierre Huyghe: Where fact and fiction meet
A bank robbery and its portrayal in the film “Dog Day Afternoon” are the materials used by Huyghe to explore how fantasy shapes memory
ArchiveArtist interview
Artist interview: Paul Etienne Lincoln
The Englishman in New York on his latest inventions and why he would have made a rubbish YBA
ArchiveArtist interview
Artist interview: Sue Williams
The US artist on her shift to abstraction and being a happier person
ArchiveWhitney Biennial
The 2000 Whitney Biennial: A return to the halcyon days of American Art or the dawn of a new era?
The pull of past traditions is juxtaposed with the push of digital innovations
ArchivePhotography
The looming spectre of a large scale photograph : Our choice of New York contemporary galleries
Drawing on draughtsmanship at Alexander and Bonin, Paula Cooper, Zwirner and Marlborough
ArchiveJeff Koons
What's on in New York: Koons comes out of hiding and Struth returns from Paradise
Gagosian christens his Chelsea space with Serra sculptures, plus cutting-edge holiday gift ideas
ArchiveArtist interview
The body under scrutiny: Interview with Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello