David D'Arcy
In their need to raise sponsorship, are US museums risking the loss of their intellectual freedom?
We look beyond the Brooklyn Museum's Sensation exhibition into a troubling trend emerging across the sector
Interview with Jeff Rosenheim and Maria Morris Hambourg on Walker Evans: At the roots of Warhol
The upcoming Met exhibition presents the whole career of the photographer famous for his images of the Depression
Book Review: How we almost lost the Mona Lisa
The Spanish involvement with Nazi-looted art and the part played by the Austrian resistance in saving works of art are among the revelations in this book
Restitution battles rage from Seattle to Paris to Budapest to New Zealand
Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family
Interview with John Richardson: His new memoirs as Cubism’s Falstaff
Richardson talks about his mentor and one time lover, Douglas Cooper—fiendish and funny art historian, aesthete and champion of Cubism
Mahler-Werfel restitution case revived, and put on hold
The council on looted art has postponed its decision on whether to return five paintings in the Oesterreiches Galerie to the granddaughter of Alma Mahler-Werfel
Russian cultural institutions suffer collateral damage from the war in the Balkans
The director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, outlines the possible implications for his museum of the NATO campaign
French relent over Rosenberg war loot claims
A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed
Interview with Brice Marden, heir presumptive to Pollock
The artist speaks ahead of his upcoming Dallas exhibition on his varied historical influences
If you can’t afford a Gehry building try this $1 million sculpture, now available at Gagosian
Frank Gehry plants a horse’s head in a Richard Meier space
Dia Center shows Beuys taking notes on Leonardo
Beuys drawings based on the Renaissance master’s famous Codices Madrid show revolutionary artist experimenting with the ideas of another
The very comical tragedy of the Schloss collection's “Rembrandt”
Christie’s, US Customs, a bankrupt dealer, hoards of lawyers, and much time and money played a part in this
Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
Collector profile: Jan Mitchell's antiquities and the search for "the philosopher’s stone"
The man behind the Mitchell Prize, awarded last month, is also a major collector of Pre-Columbian gold sculpture
Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'
Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California
Interview with Thomas Krens: No populist, no colonialist—just loved by business
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
Goodman restitution case settled out of court
Disputed Degas to go to the Art Institute of Chicago
Collectors’ profile: “America’s model millionaires”
Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton
The Association of Art Museum Directors promises to search collections for Nazi loot
Critics pointed out that the AAMD has no enforcement provision for members who violate its guidelines, not even its own mediation process
War loot found in a rug dealer’s shop in Boston
Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case
Anatomy of plunder: Maurice Tempelsman finds himself at the centre of a scandal over illegally excavated antiquities
Jackie’s companion targeted for buying $1 million of hot Greek body parts
Interview with Chuck Close: “Nothing engages me as much as people”
The artist's technique has changed from photo-realist air-brushing to collage, dot-painting, and more recently, to thickly painted grids
US museums deny holding war loot
Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives
Guggenheim's China exhibition: everything but the kitchen sink
This mega-show spanning five millennia focuses on “diversity rather than unity”, insists its organiser Sherman Lee, but does it risk homogenising Chinese art into a timeline?
US Customs seize a painting from a looted collection
The collection was stolen during Nazi occupation of France
Haring recognised at last, climbing from subway to museum
On the one hand, official recognition, on the other, the problem of fakes
Books: The “Spoils of War” 1995 conference papers
A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution
An interim report comes from "Spoils of War" symposium
A survey touching all the bases: losses, recoveries, legal debates, cultural restitution
Whitney Museum blamed for the demise of a beloved book store
Books versus Basquiats?
MoMA has chosen three finalists for its renovation project
Bernard Tschumi, Yoshio Taniguchi, and a team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre do Meuron are in the running