Contemporary art

Collectorsarchive

September opening for David Robert’s space in North London

The gallery will feature a selection of his 2,000 plus collection

The man who built a village for his sculpture

On the eve of his retrospective in Vienna, reclusive artist Walter Pichler offers a rare glimpse inside his Austrian farm

Vanity, vanity: the problems facing China’s private museums

Spaces bloom and then wither as founders’ commitment quickly fades

Interview with Liam Gillick: “There’s a perversity in my method”

With a biennial, two shows and a knitwear range on the go, Liam Gillick talks about the lasting effect of his Goldsmiths years

Art marketarchive

Momart dispute reveals hazards of shipping art

Call a specialist, you could get a commercial courier

Tatearchive

Tate Acquisitions: Felix Gonzalez-Torres

The artist's work is among 287 purchases made by Tate in the last year

Interview with Glenn Kaino: Now you see him...

When Kaino thought the art world was getting too obsessed with money, he retreated into the realm of magic

Interview with George Condo: Finding a theatre for the absurd

Velázquez meets Bugs Bunny in George Condo’s first major retrospective on the South Bank

Cambodiaarchive

As New York prepares to display Cambodian art new and old, we assess the growing recognition of Cambodian contemporary art

An overview of the Cambodian art market, as well as names to look out for, and the legacy of the Khmer Rouge

Paul McCarthy: 'Artists are seen as one step above criminals'

The artist on his early B-movie ambitions, art schools, the pressure to move to New York and why he’ll never leave Los Angeles

Interview with Wilhelm Sasnal: Home is where the art is

Wilhelm Sasnal on how his native Poland provides the inspiration for his work on canvas and celluloid

Hare raising Barry Flanagan exhibition now on at the Tate

The display explores a broad range of Flanagan's work, showing there’s more to Flanagan than jumping hares

Booksarchive

Books: Art not made by artists and trends in art production

When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?

Twisted ways of seeing: Interview with Carsten Höller

Höller has a PhD in insect communication, but he abandoned the rules of science for the “subjective experience” of art

Osloarchive

Oslo could get a contemporary art space bigger than the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern

A fortress's sewage works may soon become home to contemporary art installations

Interview with Mike Nelson: On the biennale, Turkey, and being “not quite sure what installation is…”

His work at the Venice Biennale has meant rebuilding an installation inside a rebuilt caravanserai within the British Pavilion

Sculpturearchive

Size matters: Why are works still getting bigger?

Big excitement over bigger and bigger works

Collectorsarchive

Belgium’s contemporary art collectors

The contemporary art collectors of Belgium

Art marketarchive

Art market's '08 boom and bust reflected in Chinese contemporary art sales

Figures saw buyers losing interest in the genre, before they regained confidence early last year

"Painting the Absolute": Four volumes on Kazimir Malevich, the pioneering painter-priest of abstraction

Andréi Nakov, a leading expert on Malevich, has produced a large-scale study of the Russian avant-garde's art and life

Tatearchive

Revealed: secrets of the Tate bricks

Newly released documents uncover a heated argument and the search for spares

Art marketarchive

Turkish artists get more international exposure following art sale at UK auction houses

A careful look at the catalogues unveils some of the peculiar dynamics of the market for Turkish contemporary art

Collectorsarchive

Some of the leading contemporary art collectors of China

While the stereotype of Chinese collectors includes a focus on traditional and historical Chinese art, these collectors buck the trend

Art fairsarchive

The Art Show fair report: Setting a sophisticated tone

Collectors queue to view classic modern and contemporary works