Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Collectorsarchive

Rome embraces another Florida-based collector, Bilotti

Loans to Palazzo Venezia and talks for new contemporary arts centre

François Pinault has abandoned plans to build a contemporary museum in Paris. Will his arch rival do it instead?

Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, has hired Canadian architect Frank Gehry to produce designs for a new museum

Art in the age of global terrorism: censorship at the Venice Biennale

The story of Gregor Schneider’s installation for St Mark’s Square

Loss of Pinault collection is “catastrophe” for Paris

A top museum director and a dealer react to the billionaire’s decision to show his contemporary art collection in Venice

Romearchive

Gagosian empire extends to Rome

A new office opens in the Palazzo Borghese

Pinault sells Rauschenberg to MoMA for $30 million

French billionaire has recently sold works by Rothko, Warhol and Mondrian

Samarra mosque's spiral minaret targeted by bombers

Insurgents allegedly staged the attack to prevent US troops using the tower as a vantage point

Museumsarchive

Rockefeller gives $100 million to MoMA

The money will go to the museum after his death, with yearly donations scheduled until that time

Pinault Foundation names its first director

Philippe Vergne is senior curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis

Romearchive

Meet the man who wants to open a Hirst chapel in Rome

The Italian collector Carlo Bilotti has commissioned Damien Hirst to create four paintings of the Evangelists which he wants to display in a deconsecrated church

Pinault pulls the plug on planned Paris museum

The French billionaire has ditched plans for a contemporary art museum on the Ile Seguin and has instead bought the Palazzo Grassi in Venice