Museums & Heritage
Security breaches at Tate, British Museum and Musée d’Orsay
A Monet suffered a 10cm tear from being punched
Revealed: how a US collector gave Churchill a Monet the Tate wanted
Charing Cross Bridge of 1902 was gifted by a friend after he was ensured it would satisfy by Tate director John Rothenstein
Tate to go for Rubens Whitehall sketch
Valued at £11.5m, the preliminary sketch for The Apotheosis of King James I is now up for sale
Slower than planned, Tate Modern’s expansion starts in the basement
Only part of the project will be completed by next summer, with a lack of funds hampering progress
Tate to launch Tate Channel, a film and video resource
This ambitious project will serve as an archive, allowing unprecedented remote access to information and art
V&A considers leasing paintings
Director Mark Jones believes works should be loaned out rather than kept in storage
Fifth year of Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund: What Tate bought at Frieze
This year the budget was £150,000, spent on just four pieces
Rothko comes to Rome for the first time since 1970
The 70 painting strong exhibition will be in the newly reopened Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Metropolitan re-opens Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts
Also now open is its Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education
V&A sets its sights on expansion—again
New plans for developing the former 'Spiral' space
V&A appoints medieval collector as chair
Paul Ruddock accepted the position after Sir John Tusa changed his mind
Tate aims to increase ethnic minority visitors
In the current funding agreement with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the gallery’s “Diversity strategy” is described as a “key priority”
Comment: the problem with a collector-driven market
There is a danger that money will trump knowledge, observed the New York dealer in 2007
Lord Leighton's masterpiece Flaming June to go on display at Tate Britain
The painting will be loaned by Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico as it refurbishes its gallery, along with Burne-Jones' Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon
Tate to buy more work by women
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
Tate woos US patrons with cocktails at 10 Downing Street
Guggenheim director says US institutions cannot compete with such incentives
News from London: The importance of s**t and sp**k, urine, and sex
Meanwhile, Grayson Perry displays his (disco) balls
Miami Art Museum and Miami Art Central may merge
Collectors show their support for Miami art museums
Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
MoMA completes merger with PS1
“It is like another department at the museum,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry
Washington DC. Corcoran’s future remains uncertain
The institution hopes a $2m V&A blockbuster exhibition of modernist design will draw visitors and sponsors
The Russian Culture Ministry has ruled that museums can no longer authenticate works of art for dealers and commercial galleries.
Culture ministry responds to fakes certified by leading institutions
London: Campaign to save Theatre Museum fails
The V&A could not raise the money to keep it running
News from the US: Bush and Blair go under the (sledge) hammer, the Whitney suffers loan woes, and Rakowitz can't get a date
Tate’s US patrons applaud the destruction of cake effigies, while MoMA makes life difficult
New agreement between the Tate and National Gallery allows for more flexibility
Meeting between museum directors results in increased flexibility whilst borrowing pictures outside the 1900 division
Salvador Dalí tea set for V&A
Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year
A response to Peter Watson's The Medici Conspiracy: Collectors should be defended
"The picture he paints is one where the only people to have any legitimate interest in ancient art objects are closeted archaeologists"
What Tate bought at Frieze 2006
The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection
What Tate paid for art 2004-06
A complete list of Tate's acquisitions from the last two years, and what they paid for them