MoMA generates $2 billion for New York, says report
Study calculates economic impact of 6.25m visitors over three years since the museum’s reopening in midtown Manhattan
Lauder pays $135m for Bloch-Bauer Klimt
The painting will go to the Neue Galerie
Getty antiquities to be returned to Italy
A joint statement by the Getty and Italian government says 21 pieces will go back
US museum directors debate antiquities provenance dilemma
Should museums acquire objects without provenance, which may have been looted? Yes, say several panelists
Mexico's MACO remains a modest fair but draws major dealers
Exhibitor numbers are up 50%, with a few big names such as Hauser & Wirth
Washington's National Gallery wraps up Vuillard catalogue plagiarism suit with $37,500 payment to Annette Leduc and Brooks Beaulieu
However, a complaint lodged against Guy Cogeval, Antoine Salomon and Mathias Chivot was met with a counter-suit arguing that evidence had been fabricated
Denver Art Museum gets $60m contemporary art gift
The collectors Kent and Vicki Logan donate 300 works of art and an endowment
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish
Shortly before his death in January, William Rubin handed us his manuscript
“This mask belongs to Egypt”: Zahi Hawass demands repatriation of ancient Saqqara mask
Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, is asking the St Louis Art Museum to return an supposedly looted antiquity
Metropolitan to return antiquities to Italy
20 items that were looted or likely stolen are to be restituted
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details
Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years
Mask on display at St Louis Art Museum "belongs to Egypt”
Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, is asking the museum to return an antiquity he says was looted from Saqqara
UCLA students get Richard Meier building thanks to $23m from Eli Broad
Philanthropist pays for nearly half the cost of new building
Eli Broad breaks new ground at LACMA
Construction starts next month on the collector’s $50 million Modern art gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louvre gets a taste of US sponsorship as Atlanta's High Museum pays $10m to borrow works by Raphael, Rembrandt and Velázquez
The money will restore the French museum's 18th-century decorative art galleries and the collaboration seeks to improve US-French relations in the wake of the Iraq War
Private collectors step in to fill institutional void in Palm Beach
Marvin and Elayne Mordes continue South Florida trend
US colonel to lead antiquities anti-theft unit
Bogdanos attacks “cozy cabal of academics, dealers and collectors” who ignore provenance
Rome embraces another Florida-based collector, Bilotti
Loans to Palazzo Venezia and talks for new contemporary arts centre
Terry Riley to leave MoMA
The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm
Calder Foundation's new space for exhibitions and encouraging scholarship
Dealers not welcome says director of Calder Foundation
Art historians appointed to the Warhol Authentication Board to help judge attributions
The Warhol Foundation adds curatorial experts to attempt to ease the controversy surrounding its authentication board
MoMA appoints new chief curator of drawings
Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role
Plans for Calder Museum in Philadelphia founder
Foundation fails to commit specific works to create the core of a permanent collection
Eclectic collector’s show raises questions at Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Visitors are confused and staff suggest that museum is neglecting its artistic mission
Business as usual at Knoedler's renowned Upper East side branch after $500,000 restorations
The modernisation of this landmark is an example of Knoedler's adaptability, as one of the US's longest established commercial galleries
US aluminium giant sends Warhol to Russia
The Alcoa Corporation is marking its entry into Russia by funding the tour of a Warhol Museum show
Philadelphia Dalí exhibition generates $55 million
Every available ticket sold for this blockbuster show
A dealer is offering to mount high-tech plasma TVs in 19th- and 20th-century frames
For the collector who has everything
Italian case against Marion True postponed to November
The case, which is the result of a decade-long investigation by Italian police, has been delayed because crucial documents had to be translated