Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades

Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades

Speaking with the American painter in Basel on colour, geometry, and learning how to see

Visitors, beware of the creepy crawlies

The artist broadens her palate with a foray into wine making

Here are the best known: one Swiss, one Chinese, one Belgian, three American and one British

The late collector Heini Thyssen forced himself to forget his family’s Nazi involvement, but so did the countries that vied for his and his father’s pictures in the 1980s. This well documented book gives the details

Victor Pinchuk’s art foundation is intended “to modernise Ukrainians”

Recent trials forecast shift in collecting policies

Make the citizen your ally if you want to save the nation’s past

The car tycoon has put together one of the greatest private collections of classic American art. Where does it go now?

They receive 5000 visitors a year in their house, which has become a personal Kunsthalle 16 years in the making

Less circus, more focus at the Venice Biennale

Brutality and the bad, bad taste of evil

One of the great connoisseurs of our time, the curator of the current exhibition of Chinese art at the Guggenheim talks about Chinese art seen from within and without

How a historical work of art loses its past

His comments go against the current clamour for restitution

Iraq war poses significant risk to cultural treasures in the region

A look at the global climate of public institutions

As Neil MacGregor joins the British Museum as director next month, we publish a valedictory interview with him about the experience he gained leading the National Gallery

The Art Newspaper speaks to the museum's director Sami Azar about how a more progressive government brought about Iran's increasing acceptance of Western ideas

The refurbished and extended Ludwig Museum has opened, with hundreds of Picassos on display and a colour-coded system for requesting sponsorship

If architecture is the mother of the arts then this is the whole family

Some European and American museums have bought work by Aboriginal artists but there is no broad base of collectors outside Australia for such paintings and no consensus that this work qualifies as “art”

Our overview also reveals the highs and lows of this year's biennale, which draws heavily on Scandinavian artists and pays tribute to grand masters Serra, Beuys, Twombly and Richter

From Great British to stellar American art

Renaissance jewels (and a master faker revealed), maiolica, Empire and eighteenth-century French lacquer furniture, the life of women between Orient and Europe, Art Deco, Finnish painting, the Brueghels and art from Oceania

Last month, 1,800 journalists came to report on London’s new museum; 4,000 guests vied for tickets to the inaugural party, and 105,000 visitors poured in over the first three days