London

Closure of London’s art and antiques crime squad 'would be madness says former chief

The potential negative implications of the “much mooted” closure of the UK’s art crime unit set the tone for the Art Business Conference yesterday

Malevich reigns supreme in London exhibitions

The Art Newspaper reports on Malevich exhibitions, which reference previous shows of his work

Lawsuitsarchive

Collector Eskandar Maleki sues long-time friend and adviser Amir Shariat over profits

Maleki alleges deals were undisclosed, Shariat countersues for malicious falsehood and defamation

London’s big growth spurt: Major galleries are reaching for the skies with £500m-worth of building projects

As the Tate and British Museum extensions reach their full height, institutions say business plans stack up

Council's Pre-Raphaelite collection saved for public display

London's Hammersmith & Fulham was considering selling the works

Gagosian grows London presence

New Davies Street gallery is added to the pile

Hauser & Wirth go east with new project space

The new building's first show is of work by Dieter Roth and Martin Kippenberger

Friezearchive

Frieze already an established British tradition

Although only the second edition of this contemporary fair in a tent, global collectors flocked to it and sales were frantic

March 2003archive

The Dulwich Picture Gallery organises sponsored walk to meet £100,000 shortfall in annual budget

Museum director will don Clarks shoes and fill his pockets with Kendal Mint cakes for the 150-mile trek

Rebecca Warren's Fleischvater on at Modern Art, London

Her familiar clay objects may be joined by new works in other media

Wolfgang Tillmans' new film "body" boogies at Maureen Paley Interim Art

The video work will be displayed alongside other new photographic work

Museumsarchive

Costs of Afghan war may curtail promised State funding to struggling Hermitage Museum

Published accounts show that in 2000 the Hermitage raised 65% of its budget

What's on in London: Pitching and catching at Lisson

Feverish visions at Coles and Tsingou, Childcare at Timothy Taylor and White Cube and the Russians are coming to Vilma Gold

Londonarchive

What's on in London: Tracey Emin builds a helter-skelter

Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou

Art fairsarchive

London's Art 2001 fair report: Just getting better and better

Increased attendance, sales, and quality marks a good year for the fair

Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern

Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy

Dalí sculpture en masse in London

600 pieces of Dalí’s Universe on display at County Hall

Tate indulges sticky fingers and sabotage: works by Smith and Harwood

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Concentration of arts sponsorship in London causes other UK regions to lose out

Unevenness comes to light, as survey finds that almost 50% of the UK total was directed towards London

Leslie Waddington: Always a Londoner

The welcome failure of droit de suite, the impact of internet sales and the future of YBAs and optimism about the Tate Modern

What's on in London: Gwen John times two, with lots of unseen work

Fontana moves from Hayward exhibition to commercial gallery, Basquiat’s drawings come to the City and the centenary of the charming Ardizzone is celebrated

Gagosian London opens and underground art

Gagosian opens in London, Art goes underground in Waterloo and at home in Camberwell

A whole new neighbourhood of art: Tate Modern invigorates the South Bank

Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at this witty and non-judgemental enterprise, one of many visual art developments already around the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art

What's On in London: July '99 to see major Degas show and resurgence of Philpot

Carolyn Sergeant's energised flower studies and Peter Coke's seashell constructions will also receive exposure this month

London galleries: Our past shopping experiences immortalised at Hales Gallery

Maurizio Cattelan kicks out at English football, Paolini frames “the author” at the Lisson Gallery and Halley sticks to paint