Contemporary art
Private collectors step in to fill institutional void in Palm Beach
Marvin and Elayne Mordes continue South Florida trend
Interview with Tomma Abts, champion of abstraction
Abts’ small, deeply layered canvases exert a quiet power
Gagosian and PaceWildenstein to show at Maastricht fair
The European Fine Art Fair swells its ranks
Rome embraces another Florida-based collector, Bilotti
Loans to Palazzo Venezia and talks for new contemporary arts centre
The eccentric Korean art collector and supermarket mogul C.I. Kim is to open a new branch of his Arario Gallery in Beijing
Arario Beijing claims to be “the world’s largest gallery”
Russia’s largest private gallery opens
Collector and dealer Alexander Yakut's new enterprise is his most ambitious yet
Charles Saatchi to move his gallery to Chelsea
The announcement comes as the collector and his Japanese landlord face one another in court
MoMA reveals restock of its contemporary galleries in yearly rehang
Around 50 new works are on view, including 16 examples never before seen at the museum
Mayfair gallery unveiling show, titled “Ape artists of the 1950s”
Dolphins, horses, dogs and elephants are redefining the notion of “art brut”
Interview with Jake Chapman: “Our hunger for Goya has not waned but our horizon has widened”
On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper
François Pinault has abandoned plans to build a contemporary museum in Paris. Will his arch rival do it instead?
Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, has hired Canadian architect Frank Gehry to produce designs for a new museum
Contemporary auction sales report: Boom continues, leading to some inexplicable results
One buyer pays against the odds for Sean Scully, while new records are set for Chilida, Hockney and Baselitz, among others
News from New York: Major Beuys work tipped for Beacon, while eco-artists discuss decomposition
And Connecticut energy broker Andrew Hall buys Georg Baselitz’s collection of German art
Increased Chinese involvement at Art Basel is proof of China's contemporary art market expanding
Influential forces in the Western art world are courting potential Chinese buyers, but this market is far from mature
Interview with Cecily Brown on her UK success: “The act of looking is underrated”
After her achievements in New York, British painter Cecily Brown is having her first solo show in the UK
Inspired by collectors in Florida, a Cuban-born couple have opened a private museum
Bringing a little Miami to San Juan
Two plump catalogues prove the major auction houses can drive the contemporary market
A week of new records will leave dealers wondering how to set their prices
Interview with Malcolm Morley: Paintings about the act of painting
After 50 years, Morley is still fascinated by the potential of the medium and is not too proud to learn from a “watercolour holiday” on an English barge with amateur artists
Interview with Dennis Oppenheim on hid latest exhibition: “I could never stay with just one thing”
The veteran artist promises “truly radical” new work in his show at the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Collector profile: The unstoppable Mr Kim
Businessman, artist, collector—and dealer?
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art closes this month
The collectors behind the gallery have withdrawn their support
UBS art goes on show at MoMA
Founder Donald Marron has been instrumental in the acquisition of classic Modern and contemporary art
As conservatives switch their sights from art to social issues, are the culture wars over for artists?
The Bush administration and its supporters now have their guns trained on social policy
Korea's National Museum of Contemporary Art and Ministry of Culture to invest in domestic art
For the first time, public money is being put into the art scene by the Korean government
Tate, London: Contemporary art badly needed
Tate director Nicholas Serota has spoken out about the challenges facing the gallery on acquisitions
Miami collectors champion German painting, with the more traditional medium increasingly gaining favour over video works and installations
Leipzig School to the fore: “They didn’t know painting was dead”
Cuban-born Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz discuss their work as both collectors and as curators
They receive 5000 visitors a year in their house, which has become a personal Kunsthalle 16 years in the making
Rubell family transform their private collection into major museum complex
In the space of just a year, a former US Drug Enforcement Warehouse has been expanded to 40,000 square feet and now includes 18 new galleries, a conservation laboratory, a library and a sculpture garden
Marty Marguiles opens a new public exhibition space in Miami
Tracking the collector's vast collection from its inception to his newest project, 'The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse'
Frieze already an established British tradition
Although only the second edition of this contemporary fair in a tent, global collectors flocked to it and sales were frantic