Two decades after one of the most controversial exhibitions of recent times, Arnold Lehman, the former director of the Brooklyn Museum, reveals all in a new book

To mark the London museum’s big birthday, we have searched our archive for our favourite articles on the institution, from a critic's take on the café’s cuisine to an interview with Tate’s former director Nicholas Serota ahead of the Switch House’s opening in 2016

Political upheaval across the region presents challenges—and opportunities—for artists and collectors

In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists

By far the most comprehensive artistic testimony were paintings in what immediately became known as the East Side Gallery

From Frank Thiel's Stadt to Tacita Dean's Palast, some of the best works about the Wall and life in Berlin after reunification

East German area became a space of possibilities, not unlike inner-city New York or east London before they were gentrified

Despite not being rich, the city has a large percentage of professional creatives and a booming gallery scene

This archive article, taken from our feature looking back at the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years later, shows how German culture remained linked when politics broke down

“I feel that at the time of the Medici they had my kind of rapport with their artists”

The country possesses more than 32,000 churches, 6,000 chapels and 87 cathedrals. Their dual administration has caused serious problems of management and conservation

Donald Judd's studio secrets spilled, multi-tasking gallerists and Glenn Lowry's statement sans collar suit

From the fair's director Marc Spiegler playing football on the beach to the collector Jorge Pérez getting a lift from rapper Wyclef Jean, some of our favourite images from the archive

We look back at our very first set of daily papers in 2004

From Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and from Pietro Annigoni to Lucian Freud, a broad spectrum of image-makers have portrayed the Queen

On the 25th anniversary of German reunification, we republish our first ever front-page story, in which East Berlin museums chief Günter Schade defends his record and reveals how East German museums sold in order to buy

Jacob, Lord Rothschild, is one of the great benefactors of the English museum scene in both time and money

The founding object of conceptualism was probably “by a German baroness”, but this debate is rarely aired

Nations are taking contrasting approaches to the region’s continuing political and social chaos

From Macedonia to Mali, the culture of the Islamic world is in an ideological and territorial struggle

The story of the royal portrait that has most deeply embedded itself in British consciousness and was adopted all over the Commonwealth

Artists have used the walls of Cairo, Damascus and Tripoli to document the uprisings

Zahi Hawass faces major challenges over looting

What is the critical and market sentiment around the artists who made headlines at the Royal Academy, in London, 13 years ago?

An Art Newspaper investigation reveals that, nine years after the controversial Royal Academy show, US collectors and institutions had acquired many of the pieces shown at "Sensation" in 1997

An Art Newspaper investigation tracks the ownership history of art from Charles Saatchi's collection shown at the Royal Academy in 1997

The acquisitions have not been ostentatious, with a significant portion of them being historic royal portraits, bequests or donations

A landmark account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings at Windsor Castle, by Hugh Roberts, who was closely involved in the restoration of many of those interiors following the 1992 fire

Eight months after the opening of the major exhibition, the man who responsible for staging the controversial show says it mattered because it reflected an unprecedented scale of art-making in Britain

In 1967 the National Portrait Gallery in London did not own a portrait of the monarch—but commissioning one was to prove a challenge