Funding
What Tate bought at Frieze 2006
The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection
V&A steams ahead in fundraising for new galleries
Money comes in, openings on course
US foundations back new charity handing out grants to artists
The United States artists fund fills the vacuum created after the government suspended the National Endowment for the Arts in the '90s
V&A opens its £5.4m Islamic gallery
The new display is entirely funded by the Jameel family of Saudi Arabia
London: V&A Theatre Museum likely to close
The collection will be put into storage
Watts Gallery to sell pre-Raphaelite paintings
Money is needed to ensure the long-term survival of the institution set up by Victorian artist G.F. Watts
Dealer’s decision to break up William Blake album branded “philistine”
The Tate could not raise the money to buy this unique portfolio. Will a US museum save it before it is dispersed at Sotheby’s?
Australian hedge fund trader gives £1.5 million to V&A sculpture gallery
Redesigned space will open in March
Louvre gets a taste of US sponsorship as Atlanta's High Museum pays $10m to borrow works by Raphael, Rembrandt and Velázquez
The money will restore the French museum's 18th-century decorative art galleries and the collaboration seeks to improve US-French relations in the wake of the Iraq War
Breaking down the maths of museum earnings: An ominous assessment of exhibition profits
There is a basic problem in suggesting that earned income can keep a museum afloat
Siberian billionaire funds $3m Hermitage exhibition tour
Industrialist Oleg Deripaska has become the Russian museum’s most generous private donor—even if his support is part of a public relations initiative
Three times lucky in Lottery funding as all applications awarded funds
The V&A, Museum of London, and National Museums of Scotland all get grants
The National Gallery discloses further information on Raphael's "Madonna of the pinks"
Still excluded from the material was correspondence we had requested relating to the final price of £22 million
The National Gallery purchases Raphael’s Madonna of the pinks: What we know
The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004
The Victoria and Albert Museum and the attempt to buy Mantuan roundel
The Art Newspaper requested full information
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art closes this month
The collectors behind the gallery have withdrawn their support
Victoria and Albert Museum fails to secure Clive of India flask
Collector sheikh stalemates art export process
V&A attempt to acquire the most important of the Clive of India Treasures
V&A thirsts for flask
V&A drops Libeskind extension
£15 million Heritage Lottery Fund rejected
Libeskind extension turned down by Heritage Lottery Fund
The Victoria and Albert Museum is now likely to drop the £70 million project
V&A and British Museum join together to buy Buddha
Purchased with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Arts Collection Fund
Saudi donor gives V&A £5.4 million for new Islamic gallery
Jameel Gallery to be funded by car dealership Hartwell PLC
V&A’s spiralling lottery hopes
£15 million bid submitted for 'Spiral' extension
National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million
The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment
“Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage”: UNESCO has identified new forms of heritage to the extension of the system of listing World Heritage Sites
28 out of 60 nominations were added to the list, raising awareness of 'masterpieces' that are under threat from modernisation
Fiat ends sponsorship of exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi
After 17 years and 15 shows, the Italian car manufacturer has withdrawn funding from major kunsthalle in Venice
Art & Business organisation report decline in British exhibition sponsorship
The 2001-2 recordings reflect struggling economy, registering a drop in art sponsorship since the millennium
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
National Trust acquires £5.7 million worth of art for Nostell Priory
Objects sold by former owner