The Art Newspaper
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
What's on in New York: Museums lend Ruskins for a show at Salander-O’Reilly as Gagosian hangs blue-chip Warhol
Meanwhile, Paul McCarthy and Pierre Molinier provide a little titillation
Women artists provide alternative view at the Whitechapel
“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December
Fabricant, ex-Gagosian, joins Richard Gray
Andrew Fabricant will shortly be opening an office in New York
Fakes and forgeries at the Appraisers conference
“Trompe l’oeil: to fool the eye and to challenge the appraiser” is on in New York
What's on in NYC: Best current exhibitions, October 1996
Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures in high-society benefit at PaceWildenstein
Tate on the Grand Tour and the birth of tourism
The new exhibition displays over 250 works in a journey around the art inspired by the eighteenth-century infatuation with Italy and antiquity
The Getty acquires “The fates of illustrious men and women” by the Boucicaut Master
Though the identity of the Boucicaut Master is unknown, his work is extremely valuable
Wonnacott's big week: while one painting by the artist has been sold to the Tate, another has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery
Wonnacott's portrait of John Major is on view at Agnew's
Womens’ rights campaigner, Mme Sadat, supports an Egyptian show with a pc twist
"Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven” is at the Brooklyn Museum 20 October - 5 January 1997
Collector of the month: Philip Hewat-Jaboor. “You have to be prepared to stretch yourself mentally and financially”
Why I prefer decorative arts
Death of Peter Ludwig, mega-collector
The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years
Assyrian stone relief slabs from Sennacherib's Palace in Iraq may have been smuggled from the country and sold on
Professor John Malcolm Russell's personal connection to the objects left him well placed to recognise them in images from sales
Saatchi & Gagosian to collaborate?
Charles Saatchi and Larry Gagosian are discussing a joint gallery, reports Roger Bevan
The Overholland Collection to go on tour as it loses its home to Van Gogh
The works on paper will begin their nomadic existence at the Teylers Museum
German art heavyweights including Hans Haacke and Rosemarie Trockel sign document rejecting corporate sponsorship
If the State relinquishes its responsibility for funding culture, art will be restricted by private patronage, the letter argues
Bold design for new V&A building by Daniel Libeskind, but government cuts force compulsory entrance charge
V&A in brave act of patronage
Barcelona builds up Dalí’s architectural interests in new exhibition
Twenty-seven oil paintings and over one hundred drawings are featured
The acceptance of items of national heritage in lieu of inheritance tax continues to provide public collections in Britain with new material
A Tanguy for the Tate, important furniture for the V&A
Correction: Michael Ward Gallery
An amendment to an article published in the March issue of The Art Newspaper (No. 57, p.26), with our apologies
Letters: Gagging clauses imposed on curators forced into early retirement
Secrecy at the old V&A