Museums & Heritage
Tate Modern hopes to expand by half by 2011
The museum has announced an ambitious development project which could cost up to £135 million
The Accademia to create a new gallery for Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man
The expansion and renovation project will enable it to put its drawings on permanent display
Royal Academy and Tate exhibitions heading for top attendance
“Turks: A journey of a thousand years 600-1600” and “Turner, Whistler, Monet” have been wildly successful
Third theft at V&A forces closure of 38 rooms
In the latest incident, eight Italian Renaissance plaquettes worth £500,000 were taken
John Dee’s crystal among a spate of London museum thefts
The V&A, the British Museum and Science Museum have all been targets
Tate refused previous offer from Saatchi
Serota said no to 100 works in 1998, but is still keen to buy “major” pieces
Villa Borghese Orangery to be renamed the Bilotti Museum
Rome says yes to collector’s demands
Tate, London: Contemporary art badly needed
Tate director Nicholas Serota has spoken out about the challenges facing the gallery on acquisitions
Miami collectors champion German painting, with the more traditional medium increasingly gaining favour over video works and installations
Leipzig School to the fore: “They didn’t know painting was dead”
Did Tate miss its chance to get the Saatchi Collection?
The greatest contemporary art collector in Britain says he was ready to offer all his art to gallery director Nicholas Serota—but his proposal was not pursued
V&A drops Libeskind extension
£15 million Heritage Lottery Fund rejected
Stained glass, from a Romanesque nave to a Canadian airport
A comprehensive history, and catalogues for collections in the Metropolitan and the Victoria and Albert Museums
Mark Haworth-Booth leaves V&A after 34 years
Achievements include inaugurating the museum's permanent photography gallery
Libeskind extension turned down by Heritage Lottery Fund
The Victoria and Albert Museum is now likely to drop the £70 million project
Times stirs controversy over new V&A galleries
Misunderstanding regarding removed objects clarified
News from the US: Museum acquisitions and sales, refurbishment highs and lows, and fabulous manuscript donations
Nine Modern paintings from the MoMA collection go on sale at Christie’s this month - is it to fund the purchase of the Hirsts at Tate?
V&A and British Museum join together to buy Buddha
Purchased with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Arts Collection Fund
Saudi donor gives V&A £5.4 million for new Islamic gallery
Jameel Gallery to be funded by car dealership Hartwell PLC
V&A’s spiralling lottery hopes
£15 million bid submitted for 'Spiral' extension
National Audit Office Report: Decline in museum fundraising, while Tate outperforms other London museums
The breakdown of museum funding is now available
News from London: Gagosian grows and grows, as does Tate Magazine, while Lisson and White Cube get into the festive spirit
Meanwhile, a dead animal stirs things up in Camden
Tate considers selling art
Trustees will look at whether the museum should “upgrade” works by living artists
National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million
The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment
Tate asks permission to spend £15 million from stolen Turner paintings
The windfall from Tate's insurance claim may shortly be spent
Art, lies and videotape: exposing performance.
Exhibition at Tate Liverpool 2004
The Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson now on display at Tate Modern
Could the commission for Tate's Turbine Hall create its own climate