Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher Si Newhouse resigns from board over buying Picasso deaccessioned by the museum
Museum of Modern Art’s relations with former trustee's relations were “warm but distant”
The market for antiquities is growing, unfazed by protesters
As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York
The body under scrutiny: Interview with Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello
Interview with Chuck Close: “Nothing engages me as much as people”
The artist's technique has changed from photo-realist air-brushing to collage, dot-painting, and more recently, to thickly painted grids
US museums deny holding war loot
Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives
American photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vernacular aesthetics and aesthetic vernacular
The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it
Sarah Raphael wins big art prize
She beat out the highest number of applicants to date for the NatWest prize
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
The smoking dilemma: will Philip Morris's art support outlive its critics?
The tobacco giant remains one of the most important private funders of the arts in the US
Dendrochronology and infra-red photography are giving surprising results among Netherlandish paintings at the Metropolitan Museum
Can a human eye beat the latest technology?
Work of the revolutionary Russian artist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) is currently showing in Los Angeles, then coming to New York
The exhibition draws works from galleries and museums across the globe to display a chronological retrospective