Modern art

Torontoarchive

Toronto theatre mogul David Mirvish to stage his own shows

Will the Canadian collector showcase his expansive modern art collection?

Pompidou promotes Dalí as forerunner to performance art in new exhibition

The chaotic layout of the show is designed to embrace the theatricality and madness of the great artist

Tatearchive

Tate spreads acquisition net to India and Russia

The museum is committed to diversifying their collection

Tatearchive

Tate to launch two new acquisitions committees

The globalisation of Tate's collection continues

Art marketarchive

New index and fund track post-war art: AMR Post-War Art 50

Castlestone plans 18-month buying spree while prices remain low

Farhad Farjam opens private museum in Dubai

The Iranian businessman has an extensive collection of Islamic and modern art

Art fairsarchive

London's British Art Fair, this year a smaller yet still sophisticated affair

The 20th edition drew wealthy local collectors, such as the Duchess of Westminster and Tim Rice, but it remains a niche event

For sale: £8m De Chirico from private museum

A collector in the US is buying the painting from the Estorick Collection

Art fairsarchive

Art Chicago comes back from the dead with new ownership and energy

Almost everything about the fair was better—but where were the collectors?

Art marketarchive

Christie’s Warhol could set new record in New York

The work is one of the “Death and Disaster” series which rarely come on the market

Booksarchive

Books: Sixties art in the US, a tale of two coasts

Eva Hesse’s tragic vision and the multifarious works by artists in California

Auctionsarchive

Impressionist art: unknown Russian buys $95m Picasso

New buyer beat established collectors at Sotheby’s impressionist and modern art sales in New York

Philadelphia Dalí exhibition generates $55 million

Every available ticket sold for this blockbuster show

Auctionsarchive

New Ukrainian buyer spends £12 million on Modern paintings

American buyers have returned and Asian collectors were also active

Booksarchive

Books: Mark Rothko himself provides an important piece of the Ab Ex jigsaw puzzle

Rothko’s meditation on how to reconcile physical experience with ideas

UBS art goes on show at MoMA

Founder Donald Marron has been instrumental in the acquisition of classic Modern and contemporary art

Francis Giacobetti interviews Francis Bacon: “I painted to be loved”

The last summing up, two months before he died, by the greatest Irish painter of the 20th century in an interview with the photographer Francis Giacobetti

Munich opens one of the world’s greatest collections of 20th-century art

On a par with Tate Modern or the Centre Pompidou, the Pinakothek der Moderne is the largest new gallery for a generation

Auctionsarchive

The latest auction results show a boom in figurative art (of the right kind)

Collectors of Modern art are paying fancy prices for Richter, Barceló and Doig

Berlinarchive

What's on in Berlin: From Rothko to wrappings

A selection of shows at the leading contemporary and modern galleries

Art fairsarchive

Few standout sales as the young and up-and-coming benefit from more recreational buyers: Art Chicago 2001

Limited international collectors, but American museums, local collectors, tourists and children out in force

Forgeriesarchive

Jakarta auction proves to be “An insult to forgery”

Indonesia is a big country and everything about it is larger-than-life; its despots, its riots and, apparently, its art frauds

Tate modern brasses off in a multimedia display as the London art scene prepares for the gallery's opening next month

Andrew Mummery powers up in a new gallery, Victoria Miro provides a sneak preview of her new space , and a Volkswagen van invades a front room in Camberwell

Art fairsarchive

Established fair experiments in Art Cologne's twenty-third year

Big names for private collectors and big sculptures for museum curators