“We have wanted to create more of an essay than a history, so we made a list of artists who have done something decisive... or who created work that one simply cannot overlook”

A field with keen collectors and plenty of sleepers at the auctions to challenge the dealers

This monumental retrospective of the Mexican photographer's unique images is not to be missed

Sales of the catalogue have raised nearly £35,000 for the Samaritans

The sculptor discusses his new work as he installs his first solo show in England

Tradition meets trendiness in this huge exhibition of British fashion

The artist’s daughter, now eighty-seven, reminisces about being painted by her father and life in Weimar Berlin

The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it

Works kept by the artist are to be exhibited in a commercial gallery for the first time

Drawings believed lost go on display in “Masterpieces of Western European Drawing"

This month, the New York gallery celebrates its sesquicentennial with an exhibition on its most famous paintings and clients

Also, Richard Hains's logo-mania and Robert Malaval's regurgitations

Visitors get to decide between fakes and the real thing

Also showing are Rauschenberg, Richard Long and Ryman

The first big French showing of East Germany’s most successful emigré artist

Meanwhile, Paul McCarthy and Pierre Molinier provide a little titillation

David Sylvester’s comprehensive survey includes works which Bacon himself tried to destroy

“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December

A profile of a figure at once diffident, self-critical and restless, beholden to few vanities

A further exhibition of Dubuffet's output may present a rough comparison

Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures in high-society benefit at PaceWildenstein

The new exhibition displays over 250 works in a journey around the art inspired by the eighteenth-century infatuation with Italy and antiquity

"Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven” is at the Brooklyn Museum 20 October - 5 January 1997

The sculptures of Louise Nevelson and political paintings of Léon Golub, from the US, the ArtePovera of Alighiero Boetti from Italy, the historic legends of Anselm Kiefer and wax figures of Thomas Schütte, both from Germany

The works on paper will begin their nomadic existence at the Teylers Museum

Government ministers quarrel over paperwork, but also over the care and safety of 'sacred and symbolic' treasures

Two books accompanying recent museum shows

An Italian designer and considerable use of natural light for David Sylvester’s new survey of nearly ninety paintings, which includes working studies never previously exhibited

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

Impressionist and modern sales '96 report