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

Art marketarchive

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

Paris archive

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

Greecearchive

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Very little support for the art scene from the tax system and, as in Germany, an outdated distinction between “original” works of art, subject to 9% VAT, and multiples (prints, digital works, photography etc), subject to 19%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

Art fairsarchive

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

Iraqarchive

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

Art marketarchive

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

Turinarchive

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

Art marketarchive

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

Art marketarchive

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

Vast Bourgeois for the new Tate as the first of five commissions

Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall

Tatearchive

Bloomsbury: a rather faded modernity

Two scholarly exercises in assessing the roles of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant