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Ten questions gallerists should be asking themselves now

Is gallery space still worth paying rent for or will Instagram replace it all? Art Basel director Marc Spiegler gives us the answers

Knoedler fakes trial could be a game-changer for the art market

It should provide guidance on who is responsible when forgeries are sold

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Matthew Collings on his heady days with David Bowie

The superstar art lover backed the British critic's first forays into book publishing

The 21st-century Tate is a commonwealth of ideas

Museums must widen the ways in which they serve their audiences to reflect new forms of social interaction

The artists who flopped (and triumphed) in 2015

Who was hot and who was not this year, featuring Anish Kapoor, Rachel Rose and Chris Ofili

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Kenny Schachter on Peggy Guggenheim’s one-woman fight to champion artists

In her lifetime, the art collector’s personal reputation was shredded, but, as Lisa Vreeland’s film shows, her influence on the art world was astonishing

How the Venice Biennale made social practice cool

Why political works continued to dominate this year

What is art for? Jane Kallir tells us

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and Bamako, and as The Art Newspaper continues its debates in Moscow, the New York gallerist shares her thoughts on art's purpose, originally published after 11 September 2001

In Europe’s troubled times, museums can offer hope

With the European Union in crisis, museums have an obligation to demonstrate what cultural exchange can achieve

Public museums need a new way of working with collectors

State institutions shouldn’t collaborate with those who don’t understand their wider aims

Why is Saudi Arabia destroying the cultural heritage of Mecca and Medina?

Even sites associated with the Prophet's family make way for skyscrapers and mega-hotels

Comment: The Tate should take BP’s money—and ask for more

Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact

Comment: it’s the economy, stupid—and the art market is no longer immune to its vicissitudes

While the 2008 global financial meltdown largely failed to dent sales, in 2015 our editor-at-large warned that the falling oil price experienced at the time could prove much more serious

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Development, tourism and neglect endanger sites as much as conflict and natural disasters

Does Unesco have the power to stop the decline of crucial heritage sites?

Comment: The immorality of using Detroit’s art to bail out bankrupt city

Even if it proves legal to sell paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, there is a moral case to consider

The big hole in Britain’s National Gallery: Bring back the Victorians

The omission of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood could be rectified by judicious loans

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Why American art museums are reluctant to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War

It was a different story for the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in 2009

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Serota on a sustainable future for museums: why Tate needs to change in a changing world

Moving on from traditional didacticism and adapting to a new level of modern communication

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Why the US military's proposal to dispose of Saddam Hussein’s Victory Monument is misguided

They represent good and bad aspects of Iraq’s modern history and cannot simply be obliterated

July 2007archive

Comment: the problem with a collector-driven market

There is a danger that money will trump knowledge, observed the New York dealer in 2007

Comment: why an art market clean-up would be a clear-out

In 2007 the creative industries consultant noted that the “insider” aspect of the contemporary art market and hierarchy of knowledge and status that it creates was a significant part of its attraction

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A response to Peter Watson's The Medici Conspiracy: Collectors should be defended

"The picture he paints is one where the only people to have any legitimate interest in ancient art objects are closeted archaeologists"

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Comment: droit de suite in the EU is bad for all art markets—and the artists it is meant to help

The British Art Market Federation chairman on Artists' Resale Right representing a serious challenge to market competitiveness in 2005

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New York’s famous Museum of Modern Art turns the story of art upside down with its expanded $858 million new building complex

At the hands of Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, the MoMA has become twice its former size