The Art Newspaper
François Pinault loses Egyptian antiquity case
Controversy over statue which dates from 1850-1720 BC
Book Review: Jo Crook and Tom Learner, The impact of modern paints
(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 192 pp, 25 b/w ills, 160 col. ills, £16.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372874
Turner and Claude exhibited together in 'Pure as Italian Air'
Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue
Book review: Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds), Paint and purpose: a study of technique in British art
(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483
Art Basel to launch in Miami Beach
From next year, modern and contemporary art dealers will congregate in Florida
New silver gallery opens at the V&A
Three year, £3.75 million project complete
Spanish art forgery network busted
Arrests followed an investigation sparked by the concerns of the Joan Miró Foundation
Classical antiquities fare better than decorative arts and paintings: Cultura Basel 2000
Cultura Basel ’00 fair report
Star Wars exhibition opens in Bradford
“The Art of Star Wars”, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, until 29 April 2001
Letters: V&A was not intended to be purely decorative
If there is a museum anywhere in the world which can claim to be the first embodiment of this inclusive, antisegregationist approach, it is the V&A.
Fair report of Cultura, Basel: Good results for classical antiquities
Paintings and decorative arts prove harder to sell
Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern
Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy
The World Jewish Congress’s Commission for Art Recovery restitutes works from museums in Hanover and Leipzig
Does this mark a change of direction for initiative, which previously only recorded losses?
With Sotheby's and Christie's allowed to hold sales in Paris for the first time, can Paris regain its lost place in the art market?
A new French revolution?
Cavallini discovery reopens superiority debate between Quattrocento Roman and Florentine schools
Will Cavallini or Giotto reign supreme?
Less is more with Lauder restoration
Several works subject to restoration paid for by Estée Lauder
Questionable curatorial decisions favour words over image in Tate Modern's new hang
Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?
Phaidon to publish Warhol catalogue raisonné
It will comprise of six volumes, beginning with his production from 1961 to 1963
Negotiating a united front: Berlin's culture minister Christoph Stölzl takes on funding culture in the capital
It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control
Palazzo Vecchio Leonardo discovery doubted
The unfinished fresco may lie under Vasari's contribution to the Palazzo
One of the few remaining German private collections of Gothic and Renaissance sculpture contains some magnificent pieces but provides little insight into its history
The exhibition disappoints and leaves the collector’s passion concealed
Anatomies of exhibitions: Tate Britain. "To define British art"
Director Stephen Deuchar and curators Christine Riding and Robin Hamlyn reveal how they choose the shows
Bernard Arnault buys Art & Auction
The French chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey and Phillips auction houise may turn the publication into a luxury lifestyle magazine
Antiquities dealer Shelby White included in US Cultural Property Advisory Committee: A fox among doves?
Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out
Artists lend support to MoMA strike on its 111th day
Over 125 artists signed an open letter to the museum detailing the group’s regret over the museum’s refusal to negotiate with the union
The mere announcement, in 1994, that the Tate was to open in Southwark’s obsolete power station, began to attract artists and galleries to this grungy neighbourhood
We speak to galleries and artists that have responded to this Tate factor
Somebody loves Lenin in Finland
Public outcry scuppered Helsinki officials' plan to buy granite bust of the Communist leader
Dalí sculpture en masse in London
600 pieces of Dalí’s Universe on display at County Hall