Contemporary art

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

Pace-setter Charles Saatchi moves out Britart, moves in paintings

Doig, Kippenberger, Dumas, Tuymans, and Immendorf take centre stage at the collector’s gallery

Do contemporary dealers still need galleries?

Larry Gagosian has just opened a new, 1,400-square-metre space in London. But is such grandeur still necessary?

Interview with Susan Hiller: Her new work Clinic and the human quest for a visionary, mystical experience

American artist’s most recent piece is based on three years of research on the internet

Interview with Barry Flanagan on his fascination with bronze: A tradesman, not an artist

Flanagan chooses to depict hares rather than people to steer away from the dominance of the portrait

Romearchive

Meet the man who wants to open a Hirst chapel in Rome

The Italian collector Carlo Bilotti has commissioned Damien Hirst to create four paintings of the Evangelists which he wants to display in a deconsecrated church

Three degrees of separation: Interview with artist Mark Wallinger

Absence is as important as presence in Mark Wallinger’s new works on show

The globalisation of the art market, the rise of mega galleries and proliferation of art fairs is putting strain on young artists, even while they reap the rewards

The market today requires that young artists have global representation, but unless they embrace Warholesque production techniques few can keep pace with the demand this entails

Is it a bird? A plane? No, just a G-string: Interview with artist E.V. Day

E.V. Day on thongs, Stealth Bombers and why her latest work stretches elasticity to its limit

Tokyoarchive

How the Pentagon is (indirectly) helping restore Chinese cave paintings

American engineers are preparing to introduce the latest military espionage equipment to Dunhuang

What’s On: rest of US commercial galleries

Delia Brown: getting hung up at a collector’s home en route to the museum. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Friezearchive

London aims to step into the big league

Dealers are planning new, original display techniques

Paula Rego: prints of darkness

After 40 years, the Portuguese-born artist is still surprised by the images she creates

Interview with artist Richard Long: Still walking, after all these years

Long’s latest show is a collaboration with Indian tribal artist Jivya Soma Mashe

The art of allusion: Interview with Damian Loeb

Damian Loeb’s work relies on the viewer’s recognition of the visual sources that he quotes liberally

Interview with John Wood and Paul Harrison: “I like the little one”

John Wood and Paul Harrison’s minimal, deadpan performances make complicated references to the art world of the past—with a dash of slapstick

This summer, the "Kasimir Malevich: Suprematism" exhibition is to travel from Germany to the USA

Organised by the Guggenheim Foundation and the Menil Foundation, works presenting the Russian avant-garde's embrace of abstract art will be displayed

Art marketarchive

Contemporary sales report: Storm warnings prove inaccurate

Problematic Warhols hinder Christie’s but Sotheby’s sparkles with Richter Riley, Barceló and Flanaghan

Interviewarchive

Interview with a British dealer Pat Jordan Evans on her gallery's 30th anniversary

An out-of-town gallery thrives on showing gentle, figurative painters

'Painting not painting' broadens horizons at Tate St Ives

Terry Frost exhibits new works alongside those which inspired them