Contemporary art

Interview with Tomma Abts, champion of abstraction

Abts’ small, deeply layered canvases exert a quiet power

Collectorsarchive

Rome embraces another Florida-based collector, Bilotti

Loans to Palazzo Venezia and talks for new contemporary arts centre

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

Museumsarchive

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

Art marketarchive

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

Art marketarchive

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

Sotheby'sarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: The unstoppable Mr Kim

Businessman, artist, collector—and dealer?

Palm Beacharchive

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

Korean artarchive

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

Tatearchive

Tate, London: Contemporary art badly needed

Tate director Nicholas Serota has spoken out about the challenges facing the gallery on acquisitions

Collectorsarchive

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

Miamiarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

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'

Friezearchive

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