Media & broadcast
Murakami’s film debut is anything but ‘superflat’
But whether this post-nuclear parable is fine art or pop culture is harder to discern
Blind bids, flogging Bacon and a fisherman’s find come to the small screen
Three programmes that turn the art world over to reality television
Two new programmes: Warhol is remembered by his ageing stars, and original art is taught
Twenty Factory regulars look back on the creative freedom that fuelled the New York enterprise, while three art schools are brought under the microscope
New documentary challenging the gatekeepers of Warhol’s legacy
Alan Yentob shines a revealing light on the secretive world of the Warhol Authentication Board
Museum inaction on restitution is undermining public trust
Adrian Ellis, director of AEA Consulting, talks on the threat this poses to the perceived legitimacy of cultural institutions
Arts on television: Bacon and Hirst as the bad boys of British art
Damien Hirst has carried on Francis Bacon’s violent legacy of “guts, blood and spunk”, but denies any direct inspiration
Television Guide: Athens '04 Olympics sparks Elgin marbles documentary and The Art Show sheds light on the collector's perspective
The BBC asks whether Lord Elgin's actions could be justified as the spotlight on the Greeks rekindles the Elgin marbles debate, and Channel 4 programme has dealers weigh in on the state of the art market
Set to change whole profile of art publishing, Louise MacBain is on a mission to create media empire
The ex-ceo of Phillips de Pury talks about her plans to create a group of art publications and to make an “Art Davos”
Judith Bumpus on the launch of the BBC’s new digital arts channel BBC4
Here’s hoping that they keep their trousers
Television Guide: Mario Testino's marriage of glamour and individual identity, Warhol's multi-faceted career, and Philip Lorca diCorcia's submission for the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize
The Art Newspaper reviews the "Mario Testino, Diana's favourite photographer" (BBC), "Andy Warhol: the complete picture" and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2002 (Channel 4)
From the archive | 'Painting is mysterious and I don’t want to demystify it'—Frank Auerbach on refusing to 'perform' for the cameras
Arts programmes focus on Auerbach—around his exhibition at the National Gallery, in London—and the Tate Surrealism show
A review of art in the UK media: Dumbing down or opening up?
The question of whether society gets the art it deserves, or merely what it is prepared to tolerate
Art in the media: History as a developing process
Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile
The Last Supper restoration: What the media said
The conclusion of the twenty-year project to restore Leonardo’s famous fresco has made headlines around the world The Art Newspaper presents a selection of reactions from the newspapers
Art in the Media: Norman Foster’s renovated Reichstag, Andy Warhol on video and CNN's The ArtClub comes to London
Air-raising adventures in Berlin, the mythology of Andy Warhol on screen, and The ArtClub hitting its stride at London visual art events
Art in the media: Jarvis Cocker tours Outsider Art, Anish Kapoor shows up in Bordeaux and Damien Hirst’s dentist opens wide
April 1999 provided a particularly nourishing media menu
Art in the media: The people’s painting—only what we deserve
Komar and Melamid reveal what we like, Tory politician Jeffrey Archer speculates in Warhols, fictional Bacon somewhat censored, and Britain’s own intellectual, Jonathan Miller, on reflection
How fares the digital revolution: A look at the Corbis Corporation
We assess the benefits that have accrued to museums and publishers so far
The Barnes Foundation harnesses home-shopping channel
Renoir makes his TV debut as controversy reigns over merchandising
Will the upcoming Warhol biopic be another casualty of art films' tendency to alienate audiences?
The artist's life story will soon be a minor motion picture, but cinema-goers could be disenchanted with such dramatisations