Museums & Heritage
From the archive: The enigmatic spirit of Lord Byron on show at London's National Portrait Gallery
The poet's biographer Fiona MacCarthy placed the Romantic Regency poet in the context of 20th-century film stardom
Interview with Tate Modern's new director Vicente Todoli: “Globalisation is the essential spirit of art”
The Spaniard speaks on his 20 years of experience and his visions of the future
100 Photographs: a collection by Bruce Bernard
Photographs from the 1840s to the 1990s never before shown in public
Barbara Kruger case: Art trumps right to privacy
A US Federal court has thrown out the case against artist Barbara Kruger for her appropriation of a 1960 photo, and against the Whitney Museum and LA MoCA for selling goods reproducing the offending image
Under Mussolini: decorative and propaganda arts of the Twenties and Thirties from the Wolfson Collection, Genoa
Estorick Collection
The original Tate for sale: Henry Tate's Streatham Mansion could be yours
Barrat Developers splitting up original Tate residence after nuns vacate
Munich opens one of the world’s greatest collections of 20th-century art
On a par with Tate Modern or the Centre Pompidou, the Pinakothek der Moderne is the largest new gallery for a generation
Amid protests UK Treasury decides not to sell its silver
Loans instead organised for V&A and other museums
A formula for indifference
Why “cultural diversity” arts policies are condescending and do not enlarge the understanding of other cultures
The highest profile vacancy in the art world has finally been filled with the appointment of Vicente Todoli as the new director of Tate Modern
A Spaniard for Tate Modern
A donation from the Kreitman Foundation has supported this month’s opening of a huge but little known archive of artists’ letters, notebooks, photos and ephemera
The trifles and hidden lives of artists
Victoria and Albert Museum plans £150 million radical rethink of the displays
Among the first tasks to be tackled is the complete refurbishment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.
Utopia & Reality: modernity in Sweden 1900-60
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
Public Accounts Committee report critical of Victoria & Albert Museum, "Repeat visitors a sign of failure" say politicians
The verbatim account of the committee’s hearings which took place last March makes depressing reading
Acceptance in lieu deal worth £9.3 million agreed for historic house furniture
Houghton Hall’s William Kent furniture to remain in house but to belong to Victoria & Albert Museum
The Estate of Francis Bacon drops legal action against Marlborough
No evidence of blackmail, and video shows the artist satisfied with his gallery
Seeing Things: photographing objects 1850-2001
Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum
The story of a style journey in the V&A's British galleries
The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness of the museum’s collections
Secrets of a collector: the extraordinary collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo 1588-1657
Museo del Territorio, Biella, Piedmont
After countless tests and 20 years of argument, gold pieces in The Gold Museum in Lima have been declared fakes.
Revelations concerning the pre-Columbian fakes came to light after the death of founder
Bacon Estate alleges artist was blackmailed by Marlborough
Potentially key witnesses, David Sylvester, Gilbert de Botton and Gilbert Lloyd, are all dead
Sandra Blow at the Tate St Ives
Blow is back in Cornwall with a bright new crop of works
Madame de Pompadour meets Philippe Starck at the Rijksmuseum
With a very glamorous display, this is the first serious look at Netherlandish rococo architecture and decorative arts
All eyes on the collectors as Cologne's Ludwig Museum opens after renovation
The refurbished and extended Ludwig Museum has opened, with hundreds of Picassos on display and a colour-coded system for requesting sponsorship
The brilliantly intelligent, new British Galleries should succeed in putting decorative arts and the museum itself back on the map
If architecture is the mother of the arts then this is the whole family