Acquiring Minds: Top 200 Collectors Reveal Their Mentors and Inspirations
Who influenced the connoisseurs on the list?
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Tate Director Nicholas Serota to Leave Post Next Year
Tate announced today that its director, Nicholas Serota, plans to leave the institution sometime next year, after 28 years at the helm of the museum network. The announcement brings to an end…
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Switched On: Tate Modern Unveils Its Towering Extension, Aiming to Expand Its Mission and Rewrite Art History
Tate Modern on Tuesday unveiled to the press its hotly anticipated £260 million ($375 million) expansion, the most significant new cultural building in Britain since the landmark opening in…
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Then and Now: The Transforming Tate
From its beginnings in 1897, when it had but one modest site in London housing a small collection of British artworks, to the present, Tate Gallery has grown to boast four venues—London’s Tate…
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Leslie Waddington, Celebrated British Art Dealer, Dies at 81
Leslie Waddington, whose London gallery offered master-class shows of postwar American art, and who was known for championing up-and-coming British artists during the late 1960s, has died at…
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Tate Director Chris Dercon: ‘Everything Can Be Changed’
Visionary, intellectual, democratic, and high-wattage, director Chris Dercon puts his stamp on Tate Modern
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When Is a Reward Not a Reward?
Experts disagree over whether paying for information leading to the recovery of stolen art might actually encourage more thefts
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International Furor Follows Ai Weiwei Disappearance
Public reactions to the disappearance of social-activist artist Ai Weiwei are escalating, much to the Chinese government's chagrin. An online petition initiated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim…
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‘Fools, Show-offs, and Trophy Hunters’
The art thieves in western Europe, says one expert, are mainly the Balkan Bandits.
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