Finance
François Pinaultarchive
Christie’s is bought out by the French
François Pinault’s offer is a massive twenty-six times earnings
Art & Technologyarchive
Bill Gates and Mark Getty aim to corner the stock photography market
The new information technology has transformed traditional picture research
Museums & Heritagearchive
Miami Beach, the Wolfsonian, “Sometimes it moves sideways and sometimes it moves backwards but generally speaking it will move forward”
Financial problems for decorative arts museum launched last November
Unescoarchive
Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO, described the organisation as “Affirming an intellectual and moral solidarity in the mind of humanity” last month
The Art Newspaper surveys the successes and failures of the much criticised organisation
October 1994archive
The mechanics of sponsorship: an interview with one of the UK's biggest exhibition sponsors
James Joll of the international media giant Pearson plc explains the who, what, why and quid pro quo of corporate involvement in the arts
Publishingarchive
High tech whizz kids beat Rizzoli to purchase Phaidon
Mark Futter and Richard Schlagman are the new owners of Phaidon Press, the jewel in the crown of Musterlin, which collapsed in October.