The Art Newspaper
The architecture of Tate Modern. Deceptively simple
Architects Herzog & de Meuron play subtle tricks with lighting and glass boxes
New Andy Warhol retrospective to tour Eastern Europe
The exhibition will visit Hungary, Greece, Russia and Estonia this year and Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia and Croatia in 2001
How Artprice.com raised $24 million on the Nouveau Marché
Part owned by Bernard Arnault’s luxury group, this auction price database has huge expansion plans
Marlborough sued over Bacon estate
Artist allegedly exploited and heir denied his inheritance
Pinault copies Arnault and buys French auctioneers Etude Tajan
Owner of Christie's bids high and wins big
Creative forgeries bamboozle Paris art groupies
Fake invitations cause chaos, and the culprit remains on the lam
Bill Gates on Leonardo
The Microsoft co-founder speaks about the Italian artist's influence on Beuys ahead of an exhibition in Berlin
Greek art market in crisis due to weak and badly enforced laws and taxes
Very little support for the art scene from the tax system and, as in Germany, an outdated distinction between “original” works of art, subject to 9% VAT, and multiples (prints, digital works, photography etc), subject to 19%
What's on in London: Sarah Lucas lights up and gets Freudian
Subconscious probings at the Lisson and Fa1, White Cube takes on a disquieting new talent and there are spots before the eyes at Victoria Miro
Arts of Pacific Asia Show: Mid-price treasures for new and younger collectors
Works from the Southeast Asian countries vie with the more traditional Chinese and Japanese selections
National Museum of Iraq recovers 5,000 Sumerian artefacts
Archaeologists descended upon three sites in Southern Iraq rumoured to contain antiquities
Piero Manzoni “Achrome” a fake
The court was convinced by differences in the artists' technique
Is another bubble about to burst in the fine art market?
In 2000 we noted that single-owner collections sent prices spiralling upwards which was good news for the salerooms, but disastrous for museums with dwindling budgets
Most expensive works of art at auction, January to December 1999
The top twenty has Cézanne at the top with a new record from Sotheby's
Concentration of arts sponsorship in London causes other UK regions to lose out
Unevenness comes to light, as survey finds that almost 50% of the UK total was directed towards London
Joseph Beuys' multiples on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
These works embodying the egalitarian nature of multiples have ironically been hidden from view until now
The first museum show devoted to the Académie Julian
This provided women artists with vital instruction in life-drawing
Correction: Barry Joule Bacon drawings under consideration for Irish Museum of Art
The drawings will be displayed as “attributed to F. Bacon”
Turin gets a private museum of decorative art
Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over
Titian and Raphael portraits that launched 1,000 faces
Raphael’s “Donna Velata” and Titian’s “Young Englishman” have become two of the most influential paintings by Renaissance masters
Book review: Gautier Deblonde with Mel Gooding on prominent British artists
Artists (Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999)
Famine or feast in the Dutch and Flemish Old Masters trade
As the supply of works by the big names dwindles demand is growing for pictures by lesser known artists
Auction records off the beaten track
A new Orientalist star overturns Gérôme; Italo-Swiss Alpine artist fetches $9.5 million and “The big wave” sweeps photography to new heights
Milanese underwhelmed by realisation of Leonardo’s dream
Nina Amaku's rendition of 'Il Cavalo' is relegated to the racetrack
Sargent at the Tate Gallery: Beyond portraits of ladies
The most comprehensive exhibition of Sargent ever mounted shows his bravura painting at its best, and is full of surprises
London exhibition uses interactive computer programmes to explore the world of da Vinci
Leonardo flies again at the Science Museum
Vast Bourgeois for the new Tate as the first of five commissions
Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall
The Wigmore Castle project represents a radical new approach to conservation and “sustainable tourism"
Holistic archaeology at Wigmore Castle
Bloomsbury: a rather faded modernity
Two scholarly exercises in assessing the roles of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
