The Art Newspaper

Art marketarchive

Lenin gazes into an uncertain future

While Russia tears down the images of Communism, there is a market in Germany for former artists of the regime

Newsarchive

French war booty surfaces in East Berlin

The Musées de France knew about it for nearly twenty years

The art of Forties America at the MoMA

Exploring the influence of immigrants and how the world moved on from the war

Mona Lisa mystery finally solved: The sitter is indisputably Lisa del Giocondo

And not Isabella d’Este, Pacifica Brandano, Costanza d’Avalos, a cumulative female image—or Leonardo in drag

Tatearchive

Ro-Tate: Tate's rehang success with 1,500,000 visitors in attendance

It’s all change at the Tate Gallery, as part of Nick Serota’s policy of rotating the collections

What's on in Switzerland: Good Rothko and Mark Tobey shows

In a quiet month a chance to see some classic modern art

Forgeriesarchive

Matisse forgeries in the market is nothing new

Dealers fear more forged prints may emerge

Museumsarchive

A flood of pictures for MoMA as collector William S. Paley dies

The bequest, one of the largest in the museum's history, includes three of Gertrude Stein’s Picassos

Economicsarchive

Spain debates new legislation that attempts to induce sponsorship of the arts with tax cuts

If the law is passed, sponsors will be granted legal provisions so they might better circumvent obstacles that complicate art funding

Jewelleryarchive

International Silver and Jewellery Fair exhibition examines royal jewellery: real, revived and faked

“Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen Scots: History and Myth” is on show, along with several groundbreaking seminars

Jennifer Mundy argues conservative art can also be good art: On Jane Lee's new Derain monograph

The Tate curator discusses moving on from Fauvism and the relationship between originality and quality

Three expressive exhibitions at the Tate of the North

Die Brücke, “New Light on Sculpture”, and Richard Long now on at Tate Liverpool

Work of the revolutionary Russian artist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) is currently showing in Los Angeles, then coming to New York

The exhibition draws works from galleries and museums across the globe to display a chronological retrospective

Spate of Spanish art fakes recently discovered in the market

Watch out for Millares, Chillida, Domìnguez and Barceló. Interpol find “French connection”

Italyarchive

Milan to be Italy's candidate for the European Agency for the Environment

Plans to replace Milan with Venice as a candidate have been scrapped

Gallery owner Cannaviello plans a broad-ranging Modern art museum in Milan

It would be the first to be run as a plc, with works of art as its capital base and private collectors as its shareholders

Baselarchive

Nauman's retrospective in Basel brings social madness to light

The exhibition, in which psychological unrest is registered through the body, will appear next in Frankfurt

Minimalist masterpieces on show in Sydney

The Drill Hall Gallery is showing works by Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, among others

Fundingarchive

Business Committee for the Arts survey suggests that US recession will not reduce art sponsorship

Corporations' trust in art as a tool for generating publicity has not wavered

MoMA to hold Lichtenstein retrospective in 1992

The exhibition will travel through Europe, and in 1993 will be enlarged and shown at the Guggenheim to celebrate the artist's sixtieth birthday

Publishingarchive

High tech whizz kids beat Rizzoli to purchase Phaidon

Mark Futter and Richard Schlagman are the new owners of Phaidon Press, the jewel in the crown of Musterlin, which collapsed in October.

Museum boom planned for Spanish capital

Vast collections emerge: archaeology, ethnographic and waxworks.

High-tech advances at the Uffizi to transform air conditioning, conservation, and data maintenance

Progress on the “Uffizi advanced technology project” in Florence is going well.

The Warburg Institute: A Personal Memoir

In 1933 Nazism, drove a band of original and profound scholars to settle in Britain. Out of these elements grew the world famous Institute, whose approach to the past has incomparably enriched the understanding of art. Will the 1990s see this living intellectual force stifled by British government meanness and philistinism?

Art marketarchive

Marcos Collection shines in upcoming Christie's sale

Fresh information has confirmed the importance of the works which will be put on the block

Iranarchive

Iran imposes capital punishment for illicit exportation of antiquities

This legislation may come to late, as several archaeological sites have already been looted, and their content distributed throughout the international market