Museums & Heritage

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

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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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Tate woos US patrons with cocktails at 10 Downing Street

Guggenheim director says US institutions cannot compete with such incentives

Miami Art Museum and Miami Art Central may merge

Collectors show their support for Miami art museums

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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

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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

London: Campaign to save Theatre Museum fails

The V&A could not raise the money to keep it running

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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

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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"

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What Tate bought at Frieze 2006

The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection

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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