Archives
A donation from the Kreitman Foundation has supported this month’s opening of a huge but little known archive of artists’ letters, notebooks, photos and ephemera
The trifles and hidden lives of artists
'For the King’s pleasure': a ground-breaking study of the interiors of Windsor Castle by a director of the Royal Collection under Elizabeth II
A landmark account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings at Windsor Castle, by Hugh Roberts, who was closely involved in the restoration of many of those interiors following the 1992 fire
Kreitman’s donation opens Tate archive to the public
Spring 2002 to see new Research Centre at Millbank
Letters: the V&A and RIBA partnership realises that historical architectural materials do have value
A reply correcting some out of date assumptions
One of Britain’s leading architectural historians has serious doubts about the Victoria & Albert Museum’s plan to be a “National Centre for Architecture"
Do modern architects use historic architectural material?
V&A off limits to women in 1913?
Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement
From the secret archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum: flinging more than a paint pot
The opening of a file on James McNeill Whistler, embargoed for a century, reveals him to have been a violent brawler, a racist and a gun-runner
Exploitation of the Tate Archives: Trial of accused paintings fraudster
John Drewe donated money to the Tate and allegedly doctored its documents
Revealed: what happened to the “degenerate” art in Germany’s museums, from G to Z
A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis
The Tate Gallery: What The Queen, Mark Rothko, Peggy Guggenheim and Barbara Hepworth all said.
In Britain, official papers are revealed after thirty years. The Art Newspaper was ready and waiting to see what was—and what might have been
Tate finally gets some of Hepworth archive
After much controversy surrounding the archives release, Sir Alan Bowness releases part of the archive to Tate
Fifty great stories The Art Newspaper has carried since we first hit the news-stands in October 1990
Celebrating our fiftieth issue with fifty of our best
The Hepworth papers: why the delay?
Despite the sculptor’s wishes, Alan Bowness has failed to hand her papers over to the Tate
Interview with Marcel Duchamp: Life is a game; life is art
From 4 April to 18 July the Palazzo Grassi is showing a 300- work exhibition by Pontus Hulten of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the artist whose ideas have pricked through the whole history of twentieth-century art. Here we publish one of his last interviews, made in 1966
Charles Saatchi: the man and the market. The Art Newspaper was given access to the Saatchi archive to chart the transformations of this world famous collector’s taste
As “Sensation!”, the exhibition of the Saatchi collection of young British art, opens at the Royal Academy we ask what drives Saatchi to buy, and risk, so much