Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement

The opening of a file on James McNeill Whistler, embargoed for a century, reveals him to have been a violent brawler, a racist and a gun-runner

A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis

In Britain, official papers are revealed after thirty years. The Art Newspaper was ready and waiting to see what was—and what might have been

After much controversy surrounding the archives release, Sir Alan Bowness releases part of the archive to Tate

Celebrating our fiftieth issue with fifty of our best

Despite the sculptor’s wishes, Alan Bowness has failed to hand her papers over to the Tate

From 4 April to 18 July the Palazzo Grassi is showing a 300- work exhibition by Pontus Hulten of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the artist whose ideas have pricked through the whole history of twentieth-century art. Here we publish one of his last interviews, made in 1966

As “Sensation!”, the exhibition of the Saatchi collection of young British art, opens at the Royal Academy we ask what drives Saatchi to buy, and risk, so much