Museums & Heritage
Nicholas Serota: The great transformer
The Tate director knew Tate Modern would need to expand before it even opened. It has happened sooner than expected
From the archive, 1 October 1990: 'We did not pursue any party political nonsense on the Museum Island'
On the 25th anniversary of German reunification, we republish our first ever front-page story, in which East Berlin museums chief Günter Schade defends his record and reveals how East German museums sold in order to buy
Museums unite in campaign to save massive land art project
Nevada Desert site around Michael Heizer’s City is under threat
Oei Hong Djien, the controversial collector aiming to build a history of Indonesia’s Modern art
New film shows a scene dogged by lack of institutional support and alleged fakes
Comment: The Tate should take BP’s money—and ask for more
Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact
Hitler’s ‘Renaissance’ jewels fashioned in the 19th century
Rijksmuseum’s examinations reveal truth about pendants
Director of Pushkin wants to work with London’s V&A and help Moscow’s homeless design museum
The Pushkin design satellite will have both historic and contemporary design galleries
Musée des Confluences in Lyons pays tribute to city’s great collector Émile Guimet
Guimet's collection will be displayed in a new museum, which has 2.2 million objects and space for temporary shows
V&A refurbished gallery reopens after conservators work on 19th-century plasters
Cleaning uncovers makers’ pioneering techniques and casts new light on plaster casts
Move to protect Heizer’s City from development
Nevada Senator has introduced a bill to preserve the land surrounding the mile-and-a-half-long land art project
Director of V&A proposes network of museums to stop terrorists looting objects in Syria and trafficking them for sale in the West
V&A fights back against Islamic State
V&A Cast Court restored to Victorian splendour
£2m, two year refurbishment to open next month
Will the Chancellor back V&A’s Olympian vision for a cultural quarter?
Art and design museum with space for London’s biggest exhibitions could open by 2020, subject to funding
Tate Turner catalogue delayed again
The Tate still has 21,000 works to publish online—but those already posted suggest it will be worth the wait
V&A proposal for new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
V&A East could be vast
Painting due to be removed from museum wins reprieve after tests prove it is a genuine Old Master
Not fake, but ‘tarted up’
Tate celebrates return of restored Rothko
The product of 9 months of restoration leaves no traces of graffiti ink
Young collectors collaborate for MoCA
The Director’s Council comprises 25 to 30 names from the fashion, entertainment and finance industries.
London’s big growth spurt: Major galleries are reaching for the skies with £500m-worth of building projects
As the Tate and British Museum extensions reach their full height, institutions say business plans stack up
Tate unveils Turner Prize shortlist
Three are graduates of the Glasgow School of Art
Tate’s director criticises government report on Nazi loot
Nicholas Serota says the document, which recommends the restitution of a Constable from the gallery’s collection, contains multiple inaccuracies
The government of Saudi Arabia to spend $1.7bn on building 230 museums
Thirty international archaeology teams have been invited to the desert land.
V&A shows are Shenzhen-bound
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum will send the best of British design
Tate Modern is our model, says director of Pushkin museum
Maria Loshak seeks industrial space for Modern and contemporary art satellite in Moscow
The forgotten collectors: Five significant 19th-century collectors
The contributions of tobacco heiresses and banking magnates explored
A short history of furniture from the V&A
Simon Swynfen Jervis selects his highlights from the V&A, spanning five centuries
How to avoid digital boom and bust
There are plenty of grants for new digital projects but finding long-term funding could be much harder
Bacon collector to build Monaco home for works
Majid Boustany owns paintings executed from the 1920s to the 1980s, as well as design objects and exhibition catalogues
Most Chinese paintings in the V&A are fake
Artist-forgers have fooled Chinese collectors for centuries, as museums in the West are now discovering