Museums & Heritage
The V&A responds to Boris Johnson’s call to make the Olympic park a major cultural destination
The Mayor of London says, go east!
From the archive | ‘Because of him, even more people come to Rome’: director of the Vatican museums describes the crowd-pulling impact of Pope Francis
Antonio Paolucci discusses the role of the Vatican's museums as custodians of sacred and profane art after the city state makes its underground necropolis accessible during Francis's first year as spiritual leader of the world's catholics
Nicholas Serota discusses an international outlook and Tate’s new worldwide web
Developing a global reach is just as important for major cultural institutions as it is for big businesses
British Museum expert says griffin returned to Iran is fake
Scepticism grows about confiscated silver vessel handed over by the US as an act of diplomacy
Victoria and Albert Museum, Jameel Prize 3
The Jameel Prize show at the Victoria and Albert Museum looks for the best in Islamic or Islamic-inspired art
Room with a view tops off Tate Britain’s revamp
Penelope Curtis, the gallery’s director, aims to accentuate the strengths of the collection and the building
Works head to Tate fresh from Frieze thanks to the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund
Younger and less recognised artists were the order of the day
Tate borrows £55m for building projects
Renovations and expansions at both London Tates have been costly, and loans were required to bridge gaps in cashflow
Purposeful destruction: Smashing art at the Tate Britain
Tate Britain traces the driving forces and ideologies behind a 500-year history of iconoclasm
V&A reapplies after lottery funding setback
Bid for Exhbition Road extension and underground gallery rejected
Praise for Tate Britain rehang
The move from a thematic hang to a chronological one has been celebrated by critics
Tate Modern loses top museum slot by a hair
The gallery was beaten to the post by the British Museum
Starry night for Tate in New York: celebrity friends help museum fundraise in style
Sarah Jessica Parker and the mysterious Tate Americas Foundation raise money for Latin American acquisitions
V&A strengthens ties with Qatar by showing pearls exhibition from Doha, despite ethical concerns
Museum closes a cultural gulf
Museums caught in the crossfire of discrimination in Russia
Conservative and anti-gay campaigns hit museums
Ch… ch… ch… ch… changes at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the first institution to gain access to David Bowie’s 75,000-item archive
Artists Barbara Hepworth and Andrew Forge and fellow Tate trustee Herbert Read opposed a £4,665 Lichtenstein in 1966
After a heated debate the purchase, estimated to be worth more than $40m, went ahead
Sweet factory could be Moscow’s Tate Modern
It will be part of a larger development that will include office space, retail outlets and swanky lofts
Miró on loan damaged at Tate Modern
The museum forked out £203,000 for repair and depreciation costs
Tate Modern’s quick cash-flow fix involves dipping into collections fund
The £12 will be used to complete the London museum's extension, but it will be repaid at a later date
New V&A gallery focused on furniture making techniques
The V&A rocks its Gothic cradle
Drip, drag and drape: Tate explores performance art and paint in motion
Tate Modern shows that painting and performance are not polar opposites, but have a long history of interaction
Tate spreads acquisition net to India and Russia
The museum is committed to diversifying their collection
Tate to launch two new acquisitions committees
The globalisation of Tate's collection continues
A not so golden Olympics- tourist numbers drop
London’s leading museums lose more than a million visitors during the Games, but Hirst helps Tate Modern buck the trend
Rothko and Sugimoto set the pace at Pace
Monochromatic works by both artists will be juxtaposed in Pace's new London location
Grow, grow, Gagosian: Gallery expands to Brazil
Temporary space in Rio de Janeiro means the gallery’s total space is greater than Tate Modern