Exhibitions
What's on in NYC: Best current exhibitions, October 1996
Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures in high-society benefit at PaceWildenstein
Tate on the Grand Tour and the birth of tourism
The new exhibition displays over 250 works in a journey around the art inspired by the eighteenth-century infatuation with Italy and antiquity
Womens’ rights campaigner, Mme Sadat, supports an Egyptian show with a pc twist
"Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven” is at the Brooklyn Museum 20 October - 5 January 1997
What's on in Paris: Citizens of the world
The sculptures of Louise Nevelson and political paintings of Léon Golub, from the US, the ArtePovera of Alighiero Boetti from Italy, the historic legends of Anselm Kiefer and wax figures of Thomas Schütte, both from Germany
The Overholland Collection to go on tour as it loses its home to Van Gogh
The works on paper will begin their nomadic existence at the Teylers Museum
Dispute over loans for Khmer art exhibition at Paris's Grand Palais has reached a compromise
Government ministers quarrel over paperwork, but also over the care and safety of 'sacred and symbolic' treasures
Exceptional new Bacon survey on show at the Pompidou
An Italian designer and considerable use of natural light for David Sylvester’s new survey of nearly ninety paintings, which includes working studies never previously exhibited
The Greeks on display in Venice and hidden war booty at the Hermitage
Palazzo Grassi's “Greeks in the West” exhibition is pulling in the visitors
New York auction houses appeased as Monet and Giacometti achieve solid prices and Japanese bidders clinch record sales for Gris
Impressionist and modern sales '96 report
Leon Kossoff: “A tortoise obsessed with oily stuff?”
Memorably described by Robert Hughes, the art of Leon Kossoff can be seen in London this month
Barcelona builds up Dalí’s architectural interests in new exhibition
Twenty-seven oil paintings and over one hundred drawings are featured
Cézanne puts Tate £1 million up.
A successful show, with record attendance of 409,000 visitors
Giacometti exhibition prepares to open as the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art secures loans despite doubts that sculptures would survive transportation
Private lenders unwilling to part with sculptures due to their fragility
A century of tradition: looking at the art lovers of Chicago
Money from finance, industry and the law fund some of the city’s leading buyers and contemporary art is high on their agenda
Copyright and censorship in Chapmanworld: how far can they go?
Despite the dilemmas posed by their work, Jake and Dinos Chapman's first major exhibition in a public gallery is opening in London
Bacon at last meets the pope as Velázquez comes to town
The National Gallery will display Portrait of Pope Innocent X with Bacon's reinterpretations
V&A embarks on big loan show to Baltimore on the history of the museum itself
It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry
William Morris any way you like at the V&A
A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor
John Deakin at the National Portrait Gallery: Bacon and the Soho bohemia
Retrospective on until 14 July
The collectors and the artists they choose to collect
Gemma de Angelis Testa, Eliana Guglielmi, Corrado Levi, Marcello Levi, Marco Rivetti, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
As economic development lays bare China's archaeological heritage, the government struggles to keep up with protecting the past
The Three Gorges dam and a number of smuggling stories highlight the difficulty of preserving the country's heritage
Turin shows hidden talent at Castello di Rivoli as six top collectors go public this month
Italy's most discreet city has always favoured the avant-garde, now celebrated by this elegantly cerebral exhibition
Rotterdam Kunsthal exhibits Leonardo’s only sculpture—or is it?
Bust of Christ is centrepiece of popular exhibition
Major Greek collector Dakis Joannou reveals ten years’ worth of buying for the first time in 'Everything That's Interesting is New'
Joannou's collection, which is particularly strong in installations and large scale work, can be seen in the Athens School of Fine Arts
Best current London exhibitions, December 1995
Warhol, Luciano Castelli and Sam Taylor-Wood
Fascism unbound
An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery examines the close links between the art produced in Europe under the great dictators, 1930-45
The unknown art of Indian Jainism at the V&A
About six million Indians follow this faith, but its art and beliefs are very little known to many in the west
Our island story at the Tate
Dynasties, a big show of Tudor and Jacobean painting, demands considerable intellectual input from the visitor