David Bailey’s torn portraits, sculpture from Borneo and netsuke put the eclectic into Collections

Funding cuts spell trouble for the UK’s smaller museums and galleries, but their directors are making great strides through imaginative programming, striking buildings and links with their national peers<br>

It may be because works are never lent or simply cannot be moved, or because historical figures become unfashionable or controversial, or because living artists prove reluctant, but some of the most cherished ideas of leading curators and directors have never come to fruition—yet<br>

Gowrie, a former UK arts minister, art dealer and chair of Sotheby’s and the Arts Council, is also a poet

Should they be left as a reminder of a dark past or restored to reflect the artists’ intentions?

The museum’s archive reveals how air raids threatened the collection and George V intervened to stop the building being requisitioned

The ill-fated collection finally comes together

“I think it’s interesting the way Warhol polarises people,” says Catherine Johnson. “Some people love to hate Andy”

The celebrations of his life show how much he influenced—and was influenced by—some of the greats of American 20th-century art

“What has been divided can be brought back together again—not in the form of a reunification, but in a way that we cannot yet define”

"In long, durational performance, you change the performer and the public" says Abramovic

The famous library founded by Aby Warburg for a special kind of research may lose its essential nature

Twenty Factory regulars look back on the creative freedom that fuelled the New York enterprise, while three art schools are brought under the microscope

The curator of an exhibition which includes over 700 of the film-maker’s drawings, paintings, graphic works and photographs, believes Burton will come to be seen as one of the most influential artists of our time

Esther Robinson’s engrossing movie includes footage of several of Williams’ films

A collection of paintings is stored in a basement in Washington, DC. The artists are serving—or have served—in the US Army

Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years

Artists, actresses and property developers compete for the best properties in the area

“Your head is like the loveliest pebble I’ve ever seen” said the sculptor Barbara Hepworth to her second husband, artist Ben Nicholson

The Yugoslavian-born artist continues to animate audiences with her exercises in pleasure and pain

The question of whether society gets the art it deserves, or merely what it is prepared to tolerate

Komar and Melamid reveal what we like, Tory politician Jeffrey Archer speculates in Warhols, fictional Bacon somewhat censored, and Britain’s own intellectual, Jonathan Miller, on reflection

We asked a number of lawyers to comment on the situation with regard to catalogues in their own jurisdictions, and found that the scope of protection varies widely

Even after treaties have been signed, legal wrangles between Germany and Russia persist