Exhibitions
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
From the archive | Frank Auerbach, a modern master inspired by the Old Masters, on show at London's National Gallery
Exhibition includes oil or acrylic paintings based on compositions owned by the gallery by Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt
What's on in London: the bawdy and the beautiful
White Cube and the Tate Gallery are showing Quinn's self-portraits as Annely Juda marks the end of WWII
V&A exhibition proves Wedgwood has gone to pot
The current exhibition highlights just how weak the products of the modern company are
Elizabeth Murray curates MoMA exhibition of women Modernist artists
This feminist show is the fifth of the museum's artist-curated exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection
The Baselitz blitz: Survey at the Guggenheim Museum may bring the artist unprecedented recognition
Will this reappraisal change the artist’s critical fortunes in America?
Over 50 Renaissance works from the Arundel Collection on display at the Getty
Great collectors at the Getty
Kitaj retrospective finds sanctuary in the US after cyclone of abuse at Tate
University College, Oxford, has commissioned R.B. Kitaj to paint a portrait of President Clinton (a former Rhodes Scholar) for the school’s Great Hall, but the honour hardly compensates for the American expatriate's treatment at Tate
Tate's new retrospective: Why did we get de Kooning?
Are we right to be so admiring of the work currently exhibited at the Tate
This year's 'New Displays' reveals fresh themes at Tate
A broadly chronological approach with thematic rooms addresses Surrealism, emotion, and history painting
Bill Jacklin sells in Hong Kong with his 'Urban Portraits' of the city
The colony’s first artist-in-residence appeals to new local collectors
Kandinsky's "Compositions" – a connoisseur's show now on at MoMA
His huge struggles towards abstraction united as he never saw them
Exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will attempt to encompass the breadth of the classification 'American-made'
Five American museums pool their resources to present their continent from ancient pottery to Andy Warhol
Byzantine exhibition at the British Museum provides new insights but falls flat due to missed opportunities
Have scruples over not asking collector/dealers for loans, particularly for underrepresented painted icons, affected the quality of the current exhibition?
"China: cradle of knowledge" officially opens in Birmingham 25 February
Astonishing science and technology show from Peking
De Kooning and the critics
As the current survey opens in London, we look at how it fared in the US
Possible MoMA expansion as quest for more space becomes pressing
Plans may be afoot to buy hotel next door
"Into a New Museum" among exhibitions organised at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new location
The opening displays, with recent gifts of Matisse, de Kooning, Marden, Polke and Richter, show John Lane's success in wooing San Francisco collectors
Two concurrent exhibitions to open at the Museum Fredericianum
Works from the Renaissance to the Baroque can be seen alongside Andy Warhol