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Major Hong Kong collector, T.T. Tsui in arms for Iran link
The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company
Documenta's journey from post-war to post-modern to pre-millennial
A history of how Documenta has changed with the times
Liste 97 is a venue for 36 young galleries in the former Warteck brewery
The stands in this fair cost only SFr 4,000
What’s on beyond Art Basel this summer
Exploring Basel commercial galleries; from Classic Modernists to new contemporaries
An insider’s guide to the contemporary art sales, New York: Romping with Barney, Whiteread and Kiki Smith
A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows
Chicago galleries co-operate to keep collectors local
Commercial galleries with common goals banding together
The Duma overrides Yeltsin on law nationalising booty taken from Germany to the Soviet Union after World War II
Russian parliament voted last month to override President Yeltsin’s veto, putting him in a precarious political position
Upcoming MonteVideo/TBA multimedia exhibition to explore time-based sculpture
Electronic artists have time on their side in global exhibition
UNESCO has named 37 more sites of global importance
A list of the most important additions
Last chance to see Manuel Alvarez Bravo at MoMA
This monumental retrospective of the Mexican photographer's unique images is not to be missed
Beuys breathes life into Cologne’s museum relics and inspires an exhibition in Vienna
Crucifixes and razorblades show the breadth of Beuys' production
A brief guide to Chinese contemporary art
China is in the news more and more as its economy booms and Hong Kong gets handed back this summer; Chinese art is beginning to penetrate Western consciousness
Bernie Grant and the quest to return ceremonial objects to Nigeria: Was the Stone of Destiny Pandora’s box?
Grant shares with The Art Newspaper his conversation with Julian Spalding of the Kelingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow
Facture attracts: Sculpture, objects and functional art, Miami, 6 to 9 March.
Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts
Shirin Neshat provokes at Madrid's Arco art fair '97
Neshat links three incongruous images - the bare soles of the feet, Arabic script and gun violence - to achieve a conceit
Egypt renounces claim to the Rosetta stone and other major antiquities
A radical change of policy as new director of antiquities takes over
Major Hong Kong collector, T.T. Tsui to sell his outstanding collection
His motivations to sell remain unclear
More Tate of the North
600,000 visitors a year and £3.8 million from the National Lottery
Turner Prize: Douglas Gordon is first video artist to win
£20,000 for thirty-year old Scotsman
International designer fashion gift to the V&A
200 outfits to enter the collection
The arguments for and against Unidroit
Our second Art Law Supplement examines cultural property export regulations; the legal loopholes in their international enforcement and the latest proposed solution: the controversial 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. We also deal with art and artists on the edge of society, in articles on censorship and the creations of the mentally ill
Sam Francis’s own paintings at Gagosian
Works kept by the artist are to be exhibited in a commercial gallery for the first time
Partnerships in the French auction market
Commissaire-priseurs unite in preparation for 1998
The Gerstenberg Goyas resurface at The Hermitage
Drawings believed lost go on display in “Masterpieces of Western European Drawing"
Ronald Lauder gives looted shield back to Italy
Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940
Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
Pre-Post-Human Dalí on show at Schloss Charlottenburg
Five hundred sculptures, prints and drawings courtesy of the Stratton Foundation