Contemporary art

Interviewarchive

The brains behind the Biennale: Interview with Harald Szeemann

The Biennale director who launched the “Aperto” section for young artists is now replacing it with “d’Apertutto” as the theme of Biennale ‘99

Our choice of New York contemporary galleries

Industrial strength beer cans at Holly Solomon and post-industrial landscapes at Joseph Rickards

March 1999archive

'The biggest contemporary art fraud of the century'

John Drewe probably faked as many as 200 pictures, tampering with archive material and duping the experts

Tatearchive

Large Lottery grant to Tate Gallery to buy contemporary art

£6.2 million goes to the new Tate at Bankside before next years opening.

Museumsarchive

The new partnership between MoMA and P.S. 1 across the East River bridges gaps for both institutions

“I believe the future of this museum lies in the depth of its commitment to contemporary art,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry

Pratoarchive

Prato sticks with designs of the times as new contemporary art programme is announced

Art centre reopens with a retrospective of Ettore Sottsass and a homage to Leonardo

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'

Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California

Art fairsarchive

Veteran dealers swerve Berlin Art Forum 1998 due to dearth of big collectors

A fair in its infancy, Art Forum proved fruitful for younger dealers with affordable art, although its concurrence with Yom Kippur did not help matters

Collectorsarchive

Collectors’ profile: “America’s model millionaires”

Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton

Kusama makes a comeback with three concurrent exhibitions this Summer

Zwirner turns his gallery into a sports bar for the World Cup

June 1998archive

Are auction houses creating a bigger market for all or squeezing out the competition?

In 1998 we reflected on Sotheby's and Christie's recent move to sell cutting edge contemporary art as being a watershed moment

Art fairsarchive

Sales satisfactory at Berlin Art Forum '97, though dealers may have to be patient for fair to come into its own

Dealers and collectors alike come here to see the city and its contemporary art world take shape but immediate sales were limited

Collectorsarchive

Deep in the art of Texas: focus on Dallas as a flourishing community of dealers and collectors

Talley Dunn of Gerald Peters Gallery states with pride that “The art community as a whole is growing”

Lootingarchive

Works of art vanish from Kinshasa

The change of regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo coincided with thefts from the Institut des Musées Nationaux

Art marketarchive

An insider’s guide to the contemporary art sales, New York: Romping with Barney, Whiteread and Kiki Smith

A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows

Basel beckons: from Bacon to Warhol, the cream of twentieth-century art on view

Europe’s grandest modern art fair will be bigger than ever this year, with collectors and museum curators from all over the world

What's onarchive

What's on in New York: Gramercy International kicks off the month

While women Abstract Expressionists come to Long Island, chilling still-lifes plus true confessions in Soho

Armory's International Fine Art Fair report: International dealers chase diverse US spending power

Sixteen French dealers join the Anglo-Saxons with Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern art

Chicago galleries co-operate to keep collectors local

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

José Berardo’s collection goes public

Financier unveils his new museum in Sintra’s former Casino with a collection formed in just four years

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: David Tang, the Jay Gatsby of Hong Kong?

David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style