David D'Arcy

Leon Golub is still getting to the real at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work

Interview with Yoko Ono: "I always move on"

As the Japan Society presents a retrospective of Yoko Ono’s work, she talks about the avant-garde in the 60s and her latest work

July 2000archive

Publisher Si Newhouse resigns from board over buying Picasso deaccessioned by the museum

Museum of Modern Art’s relations with former trustee's relations were “warm but distant”

How should billionaire Ronald Lauder be understood; philanthropist, restitution advocate, leader or naive temporiser?

The heir to the cosmetics fortune is creating his own museum and would like to see art returned to Holocaust victims, but how effective is he actually?

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

Booksarchive

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

Interviewarchive

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

Lootingarchive

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

Museumsarchive

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

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

Collectorsarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'

Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California

Interviewarchive

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

Nazi lootarchive

Goodman restitution case settled out of court

Disputed Degas to go to the Art Institute of Chicago

Collectorsarchive

Collectors’ profile: “America’s model millionaires”

Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton

Nazi lootarchive

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

Nazi lootarchive

War loot found in a rug dealer’s shop in Boston

Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case

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

Looted artarchive

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?

Nazi lootarchive

US Customs seize a painting from a looted collection

The collection was stolen during Nazi occupation of France