Aristocrat Toshio Hara is admired by museum directors, such as Nick Serota of the Tate, for his contemporary art museum

The Art Newspaper has uncovered a forgotten episode in which the young Serota clashed with the trustees of the Tate over the Young Friends’ exhibitions

Pigs not caught in flagrante delicto and women wrestling with balloons are just some of the delights at this multi-venue biennale curated by Rosa Martínez

It is fifty years since this collector and essentially American philanthropist was turned on to art while at Harvard. He has been an integral part of the art establishment in Chicago for decades

The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art

The group of international, web-based, artists is bringing its witty blend of conceptual, digital and performance art to New York

The pull of past traditions is juxtaposed with the push of digital innovations

The Houston international photographic biennial is the only event of its kind in the US

Shows include the first retrospective of images by Hiro at Pace/MacGill and Todd Eberle's computer portraits

An interview with one of the curators of this year’s Whitney Biennial as his sculpture exhibition moves south of the Texan border

Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello

The contemporary fair switches on to new technology

And a group of exhibitions, about Duchamp, Balthus and Basquiat, coincides with new art book releases this autumn

Marcia Tucker, the founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, reviews her work of the past twenty-two years

100 collectors have been flown in for the contemporary art event

The Biennale director who launched the “Aperto” section for young artists is now replacing it with “d’Apertutto” as the theme of Biennale ‘99

Industrial strength beer cans at Holly Solomon and post-industrial landscapes at Joseph Rickards

£6.2 million goes to the new Tate at Bankside before next years opening.

“I believe the future of this museum lies in the depth of its commitment to contemporary art,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry

Art centre reopens with a retrospective of Ettore Sottsass and a homage to Leonardo

100 galleries make their yearly migration

A fair in its infancy, Art Forum proved fruitful for younger dealers with affordable art, although its concurrence with Yom Kippur did not help matters

A defence of the Helion 'hoax'

Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton

Art Basel ’98 fair report

Zwirner turns his gallery into a sports bar for the World Cup