In a rare interview, the Aga Khan describes his global approach to helping Islamic communities help themselves, while also restoring their past heritage

Keeping net art live

Long live the united nations of the arts?

One of the great connoisseurs of our time, the curator of the current exhibition of Chinese art at the Guggenheim talks about Chinese art seen from within and without

An out-of-town gallery thrives on showing gentle, figurative painters

The Spaniard speaks on his 20 years of experience and his visions of the future

As Neil MacGregor joins the British Museum as director next month, we publish a valedictory interview with him about the experience he gained leading the National Gallery

Here’s hoping that they keep their trousers

The new director of Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art is self taught (he trained as an optician), curator of the German pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, and passionately involved in contemporary art

As director of this centre for arts and media technology, Peter Weibel, says that media art can be more politically engaged because it relates to the new technologies and the new economic order

From Great British to stellar American art

Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover has provided crucial support for many of Britain’s greatest art institutions

Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures

The Microsoft co-founder speaks about the Italian artist's influence on Beuys ahead of an exhibition in Berlin

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

Richardson talks about his mentor and one time lover, Douglas Cooper—fiendish and funny art historian, aesthete and champion of Cubism

Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime

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

J.G. Ballard, author of The Empire of the Sun, chooses seven images and explains his passion for Surrealism and the importance that Pop Art, Francis Bacon and photography have had for him

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

The new sole executor of Bacon's estate talks in his first public interview about the teams of lawyers now working to see that the artist’s beneficiary, John Edwards, receives precisely what Francis intended him to receive. And that is everything

The guru of avant-garde Chinese art in the Eighties and early Nineties talks now of a return to tradition

One year after the acclaimed opening, the director of New York’s Guggenheim talks about the Bilbao Guggenheim, his money-raising and his new expansion plans Spanish commentators admire the building and its success with the public but some chafe at its artistic dependence on the New York museum

Amid the frenzy of Stockholm ‘98, the museum's new director takes art seriously

“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”

Gertrude Stein asks: museum or modern? MoMA’s director replies

The co-founder of Stephens Innocent law firm discusses the limits of art