Museums & Heritage
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
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