Interview
Interview with John Richardson: His new memoirs as Cubism’s Falstaff
Richardson talks about his mentor and one time lover, Douglas Cooper—fiendish and funny art historian, aesthete and champion of Cubism
Interview with Guita Abidari on the Art Loss Register
Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime
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
“The mind’s eye” discussion at the Tate Gallery:“The film of Kennedy’s assassination is the Sistine Chapel of our era”
J.G. Ballard, author of The Empire of the Sun, chooses seven images and explains his passion for Surrealism and the importance that Pop Art, Francis Bacon and photography have had for him
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
Interview with Brian Clarke on the Bacon estate: In litigation mode
The new sole executor of Bacon's estate talks in his first public interview about the teams of lawyers now working to see that the artist’s beneficiary, John Edwards, receives precisely what Francis intended him to receive. And that is everything
We must salvage what remains of the past: Interview with Johnson Chang
The guru of avant-garde Chinese art in the Eighties and early Nineties talks now of a return to tradition
Interview with Thomas Krens: No populist, no colonialist—just loved by business
One year after the acclaimed opening, the director of New York’s Guggenheim talks about the Bilbao Guggenheim, his money-raising and his new expansion plans Spanish commentators admire the building and its success with the public but some chafe at its artistic dependence on the New York museum
Moderna Museet's David Elliot on maintaining the institution's legacy as it moves into new premises
Amid the frenzy of Stockholm ‘98, the museum's new director takes art seriously
Interview with Christos Joachimides, beleaguered exhibition organiser and agent provocateur
“We have wanted to create more of an essay than a history, so we made a list of artists who have done something decisive... or who created work that one simply cannot overlook”
First Interview with MoMA's new director Glenn Lowry on modernising the Modern
Gertrude Stein asks: museum or modern? MoMA’s director replies
Interview with Mark Stephens on censorship: a lawyer’s view
The co-founder of Stephens Innocent law firm discusses the limits of art
The man who loves everything: Interview with Daniel Katz
Daniel Katz, Britain’s leading sculpture dealer, has a major exhibition in London this month. He describes his thirty-year career and his undimmed passion for art
An interview with Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“It is impossible to say in advance when photography is an art and when it is not”
The long and fruitful relationship between Picasso and portraiture: Interview with curator William Rubin
The Director Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and leading Picasso scholar in American museums discusses the exhibition he has curated opening this month
Interview with Richard Oldenburg on life after MoMA
Former head of Museum of Modern Art and now chairman of Sotheby’s America sees no conflict between museums and the trade
“I still believe in the hand of the artist”: Interview with collector Eugene Thaw
The connoisseur, dealer, collector and patron of the Morgan Library discusses the importance of emotional impact, and how the art market has transformed since the start of his career
Interview with Antonio Pitxot on Dalí: Portrait of the artist as a young man
The artist's long time friend sheds light on the artist as he was, ahead of the Hayward Gallery exhibition on his early works
A major private museum of Impressionism and Greek art for Athens
Architect of the Louvre pyramid, I.M. Pei, is its designer
When the Musée du Louvre moves into the Richelieu wing, for years occupied by the Ministry of France, it overtakes the Metropolitan in New York as the biggest museum in the world. We have interviewed its director Michel Laclotte, who has seen the project through to completion
The apotheosis of the Louvre
430 unknown drawings by Modigliani brought to light as the son of the artist's best friend releases a new book
The works were collected day by day, from 1907 to 1914, by Paul Alexandre during the artist’s stay in Paris
The ADAA thirty years on: “We’ve cleaned up tax fraud, the selling of fakes, helped recover thefts, and supported freedom of expression”
As the Art Dealers Association of America’s annual Armory show drew to an end we talked to Gilbert Edelson, a founder member
Interview with Germain Viatte: “We have come a long way”
The new Director of France’s National Museum of Modern Art gives his first interview
Accused of being a fascist artist after World War II, famous yet neglected, Mantegna now gets his major show
Nicholas Penny talks to the exhibition organiser David Landau about his all-embracing view of one of the greatest Renaissance artists
Interview with Nicholas Logsdail: Lisson's founder in both expansive and expansionist mood
Contemporary art dealer affirms his confidence in the artists he works with by doubling the gallery space at the Lisson
The vision for The Whitney under new leadership: less isolationist; diverse, rather than deep
David Ross, the new director reveals his ideas
As Charles Saatchi's collection of young British art opens at the Royal Academy, we ask what drives the collector to buy, and risk, so much
The Art Newspaper was given access to the Saatchi archive to chart the transformations of this world famous collector’s taste
Interview with Jacques Derrida: The Philosopher sees (or doesn’t see)
Discussing “Memories of a blind man – the self-portrait and other ruins” and his choice of drawings for the exhibition in the Hall Napoleon of the Louvre, from 26 October until 21 January 1991