Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

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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

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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

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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