Metropolitan Museum of Art
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20 items that were looted or likely stolen are to be restituted
An increasing number of museums are being built as speculative investments designed to attract incompatible currencies—collections and crowds
A comprehensive history, and catalogues for collections in the Metropolitan and the Victoria and Albert Museums
A 200 strong collection of pieces by him are on view at, and promised to, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art Newspaper speaks to the director of the Metropolitan about the historical significance of the Iraq Museum's plunder and how disasters of its kind can be dealt with
Despite the market for tapestry fluctuating throughout the 20th century, interest is high at present
Prices for Gursky, Struth, Ruff and Demand have rocketed in 10 years
A new exhibition takes a closer look at Leonardo's work on paper
Museums must set the standard for collectors and dealers, says Manus Brinkman Secretary General of the International Council of Museums
Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel are assessed as distinct individuals, brought together by the shared conviction that “There are no paintings, just decoration”
Paint analysis suggests that "Woman at a virginal", which is in private hands and has been dismissed for 50 years, may be by the master
Metropolitan Monet subject to claim
The market is driven by supply and demand and not by collectors’ taste, says veteran dealer in Asian art
Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out
Museum of Modern Art’s relations with former trustee's relations were “warm but distant”
As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York
Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello
The artist's technique has changed from photo-realist air-brushing to collage, dot-painting, and more recently, to thickly painted grids
Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives
The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it
She beat out the highest number of applicants to date for the NatWest prize
University College, Oxford, has commissioned R.B. Kitaj to paint a portrait of President Clinton (a former Rhodes Scholar) for the school’s Great Hall, but the honour hardly compensates for the American expatriate's treatment at Tate
The tobacco giant remains one of the most important private funders of the arts in the US
Can a human eye beat the latest technology?
The exhibition draws works from galleries and museums across the globe to display a chronological retrospective