Contemporary art

Featuresarchive

Marina Abramovic: reflecting on the good witch of the East

The Yugoslavian-born artist continues to animate audiences with her exercises in pleasure and pain

Jenny Holzer: towards the mot juste

The US artist on text being just one medium in her work and how trying to measure up to Goya can keep her motionless for months

Berlinarchive

What's on in Berlin: From Rothko to wrappings

A selection of shows at the leading contemporary and modern galleries

July 2001archive

New French legislation allows works less than 30 years old to be deaccessioned

Contemporary art museums say their collections are undervalued and at risk

Tate announces Turner prize shortlist

A photographer, a conceptual artist, a film-maker and an installation artist comprise the candidates for Britain’s most famous contemporary art prize

Interview with artist Richard Wilson: The topsy-turvy tendency

These works of art take a global perspective and are literally geologically based

Asian artarchive

Asia Week in the galleries

From Shang to the present, Asian art in all its diversity

Artist interview: Sue Williams

The US artist on her shift to abstraction and being a happier person

Tokyoarchive

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: A great private enterprise

Aristocrat Toshio Hara is admired by museum directors, such as Nick Serota of the Tate, for his contemporary art museum

Tatearchive

The Tate in 1971.Nick Serota resigns!

The Art Newspaper has uncovered a forgotten episode in which the young Serota clashed with the trustees of the Tate over the Young Friends’ exhibitions

Irelandarchive

Exhibition of Visual Art (EV+A) in Limerick remains relevant and provocative

Pigs not caught in flagrante delicto and women wrestling with balloons are just some of the delights at this multi-venue biennale curated by Rosa Martínez

Collectorsarchive

Collector interview: Lew Manilow on art and Chicago

It is fifty years since this collector and essentially American philanthropist was turned on to art while at Harvard. He has been an integral part of the art establishment in Chicago for decades

Knoedlerarchive

Diary of US dealer Ann Freedman: No websales, please; only the personal touch

The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art

Fresh from its successful stand-off with e-commerce giant, eToys, etoy enter Manhattan

The group of international, web-based, artists is bringing its witty blend of conceptual, digital and performance art to New York

The 2000 Whitney Biennial: A return to the halcyon days of American Art or the dawn of a new era?

The pull of past traditions is juxtaposed with the push of digital innovations

Houstonarchive

FotoFest 2000 combines traditional techniques with modern innovations

The Houston international photographic biennial is the only event of its kind in the US

What's on in New York: Tackling the digital age

Shows include the first retrospective of images by Hiro at Pace/MacGill and Todd Eberle's computer portraits

Interviewarchive

The house that Michael built: Interview with Michael Auping

An interview with one of the curators of this year’s Whitney Biennial as his sculpture exhibition moves south of the Texan border

The body under scrutiny: Interview with Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello

Digital art at the forefront of Art Cologne 1999

The contemporary fair switches on to new technology

Construction-mania: Our choice of New York contemporary galleries

And a group of exhibitions, about Duchamp, Balthus and Basquiat, coincides with new art book releases this autumn

Interviewarchive

Interview with Marcia Tucker on building a truly contemporary museum: “Process, not product”

Marcia Tucker, the founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, reviews her work of the past twenty-two years

Art fairsarchive

A guide to Art Forum '99, Berlin

100 collectors have been flown in for the contemporary art event

From the archive: Frank Stella in 1999 — 'I started, and I think I am going to finish, as a committed abstractionist'

The American artist talked about working to commission, exploring the creative tension between figurative and abstract art, his debt to artists of the past and his views on artists of today