Museums & Heritage
Alvaro Saieh explains his collecting habits and fascination with Old Masters
Inspired by a talk at Christie’s, the collector has amassed 150 works from the 13th to 16th centuries, as well as Modern and contemporary pieces
Green light for V&A to expand underground
Design includes a courtyard and new entrance
Get tanked at the Tate: first permanent museum galleries devoted to installation and live art open at Bankside
Dancers and a singles’ night open Tate Modern’s new space
The Unilever Series: Tino Sehgal comes to the Turbine Hall
His ephemeral performance art is on display 24 July-28 October
Tate Britain opts for chronological hang with refurbishment project progressing
The galleries are set to reopen in May after funding goals were reached
Collectors' gift of Hockney and Freud to the Tate honours its director
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker have conferred an exceedingly generous donation on the gallery
Tate admits error in giving away confidential export data as archive is offloaded to Paul Mellon Centre
The photographic archive of paintings was transferred in haste - twice
Two museums promised a third of one of the great collections of modern American art
Which poses the question: will the late Hannelore Schulhof’s heirs sell major works?
Pompidou welcomes Daniel and Florence Guerlain’s deferred gift of 1000 contemporary drawings
The Guerlains are mindful of the fate of an ancestor’s impressionist works, having no wish for their collection to be divvied up in the same manner
Three museums in search of mega-millions for extensions and refurbishments
Despite the recession, the British Museum, Tate and V&A attract major donations
Tate Britain Director defends curatorial changes
Constable and Turner experts may go
UK Treasury rules to stop museums spending donors' cash
National institutions reluctantly set up trusts to gain access to their own reserves
Original 1860s decor has been restored at the V&A
Victorian collectors’ pictures back on display
Pushkin accused of displaying a fake
Growing concerns over authenticity of Modigliani portrait on show in Moscow museum
Tate Acquisitions: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The artist's work is among 287 purchases made by Tate in the last year
Will Double Negative be a no show?
Curators face uphill task getting OK from Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria
We have an obligation to share collections abroad says V&A director
The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing
Three of the best for Tate in this year's Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund acquisitions
Two new artists and an old favourite make the cut
In a rare interview, Victor Pinchuk tells us about his plans to build a new contemporary art space in Kiev
A “landmark” museum for Ukraine
Oslo could get a contemporary art space bigger than the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern
A fortress's sewage works may soon become home to contemporary art installations
Budi Tek plans “serious” space in Shanghai to join his collection of private museums
The collector builds bridges with Tate and MoMA, and buys work by Kiefer, Cattelan and Hatoum
We need Leonardos and Van Goghs, says Norwegian politician Carl Hagen
He suggests using Norway’s oil and gas billions to buy the best for the national gallery
Collector’s £100m art bequest to the UK
Denis Mahon’s gift of the century comes with conditions
Designer basement extension on the cards for the V&A with new donation pledge
The museum extends down, not up with new plan that is largely below street level and much less expensive than the failed Spiral
Revealed: secrets of the Tate bricks
Newly released documents uncover a heated argument and the search for spares
Outcry over lab’s decision to stop printing 16mm film
Tate Modern curator and leading artist head protests
Tate's Artangel Collection grows by nine works
The £2 million scheme to bring the 21-piece scheme to the public