Anna Somers Cocks

From the archive | Waddesdon, Museum of the Year and the exemplar of a Rothschild house

Jacob Rothschild, the banker and former head of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, always took a deeply personal interest in the last of the great Rothschild houses

Grinling Gibbons, a superstar rediscovered at the V&A

Fires at the Pitti Palace and Hampton Court have led to this survey of baroque sculptor, Grinling Gibbons

Floodingarchive

Italian environment minister expected to reject Venice flood barriers

The report of the national commission on the project is due 21 October

Tatearchive

Tate Gallery: With Bow Bells, Cockney costermongers and artists

Iwona Blazwick describes a new and socially engaged style of curatorship at London’s future Tate Gallery of Modern Art

Tatearchive

Tate Gallery: All for one, and one for all

A radical new organisation has been created by director Nicholas Serota We interview the man he has chosen to lead the future Tate Gallery of British Art

June 1998archive

Are auction houses creating a bigger market for all or squeezing out the competition?

In 1998 we reflected on Sotheby's and Christie's recent move to sell cutting edge contemporary art as being a watershed moment

The Greeks on display in Venice and hidden war booty at the Hermitage

Palazzo Grassi's “Greeks in the West” exhibition is pulling in the visitors

Collectorsarchive

Turin shows hidden talent at Castello di Rivoli as six top collectors go public this month

Italy's most discreet city has always favoured the avant-garde, now celebrated by this elegantly cerebral exhibition

Looted artarchive

Daniel Wildenstein in fight to recover a Boldini stolen by the Nazis

Would Italian law allow this picture to revert to the original owner?

London, Alan Borg—a safe choice for the Victoria and Albert Museum

Medievalist director of the Imperial War Museum, an able fund-raiser, chosen by the Trustees

The mechanics of sponsorship: an interview with one of the UK's biggest exhibition sponsors

James Joll of the international media giant Pearson plc explains the who, what, why and quid pro quo of corporate involvement in the arts