20th Century
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Decorative arts market report: The field is booming, fuelled by museum buying and style-hounds
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
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
Post-1935 decorative arts, mass produced at exclusive prices
A survey of the decorative arts market
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dresden’s Albertinum brings out East German art to ‘build bridges’
Museum director Hilke Wagner seeks to address lingering prejudices with exhibition and events
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
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
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
Eighth edition of PAD London puts collectors in the right mood
Dealers also praise the friendly atmosphere
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
Dealers spark intrigue at Art Basel 2013 as 20th century masterpieces jostle alongside the contemporary
Art Basel '13 fair report
Spotlight: an alternative canon of 20th-century art or savvy sales strategy?
Frieze Masters both embraces and challenges the idea of 'masters'
New Met exhibition explores pre-digital manipulation of photography
Photographers began manipulating their work long before the digital era
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?
Books: The amazing and flamboyant career of the US collector Norton Simon
Collecting outside of the box
Actionist collection offered to Courtauld
Long-term loan from British collector would gather controversial works in public
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
Louis Soutter: Corbusier’s favourite digital art
Soutter's art on view at Berlin's Galerie Haas & Fuchs
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
Property mogul David Roberts building Camden gallery to house contemporary art collection
Scottish businessman to open public space
Max Mara founder’s art to go on show in posthumous exhibition
A former clothes factory in Italy will house 200 works
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
Former V&A photography curator Mark Haworth-Booth shines a spotlight on the photographer Lee Miller
Will he be rescued from obscurity?
Best results ever for Italian art at auction
An unnamed East European collector bought several works at both Sotheby’s and Christie’s
Tate considers National Gallery’s proposal to show early 20th-century art
Trustees discuss idea following our report
National Gallery may start acquiring 20th-century art
The move would put the institution in competition with Tate
Collector Bob Rubin's proves passion for Prouvé in $1 million restoration
The artist’s Maison Tropicale is on show this month at Yale
Villa Borghese Orangery to be renamed the Bilotti Museum
Rome says yes to collector’s demands
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?
New book and DVD explore the work of Joseph Cornell
Cornell's influence is traced to a breadth of modern art and poetry
'Zoomorphic' an overview of contemporary architecture at the V&A Museum
Exploring the animal kingdom's influence on contemporary architecture
Cruel and tender: the real in the 20th-century photograph
Now on at the Tate Modern
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
Propaganda posters from the Schreyer collection at the V&A
Charting the growth of a 20th century medium of art and communication
Art Deco 1910-39 at the V&A
Promises to be one of the most glamorous exhibitions of the year
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
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
Under Mussolini: decorative and propaganda arts of the Twenties and Thirties from the Wolfson Collection, Genoa
Estorick Collection
Four German collectors and their passions
The Anglophile, the Entertainer, the Benefactor and the America lover
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
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
Beyond the Glass Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum
100 new contemporary objects on display