Museums & Heritage
New acquisitions by Tate Modern show commitment to diversifying collection
Art from across the globe has recently found a home in Bankside
Chris Dercon as Tate Modern's new director
Outgoing director Vicente Todoli is off to seek new challenges
Gagosian empire expands to China
Hong Kong will soon be home to a branch of the super-gallery
News from London: Quinn’s polymorphous perversity and Joffe’s secret shop
A night at the Turk’s head, a farewell to Tate Modern’s bon viveur, and the only party to support on election night
Serota on a sustainable future for museums: why Tate needs to change in a changing world
Moving on from traditional didacticism and adapting to a new level of modern communication
Adrian Ellis on Tate's expansion: the definition of success
After a decade of acclaim, will its triumph be topped by Tate Modern 2?
V&A ceramics galleries to open in full, while European collection waits its turn for refurbishment
Completion is expected in 2014 or 2015
The catalogue of the Ashmolean’s English and continental gold and silver
Oxford’s greatest treasure trove
Building a museum powerhouse: A timeline of the Tate Modern
After a decade of acclaim, will its success be topped by Tate Modern 2?
The V&A and the RA compete to present a Vatican show timed to coincide with the first state visit to Britain of Pope Benedict XVI
V&A will reunite Raphael’s Sistine tapestries with their cartoons for first time in 500 years
Directors say OK to collectors’ shows
In response to The New Museum's current exhibition
Tate to sell Muñoz staircase
For a work to be deaccessioned from the Tate is rare but permitted, in this case as a step toward upgrading the national collection
V&A plans £120m second phase of renewals
Medieval and Renaissance galleries crown phase one of museum’s “Future Plan”
News from the US: Sue Williams learns big is not best in the current economic climate while Dennis Oppenheim lights up Las Vegas
Meanwhile, Scott Alger puts on a show at a Vaudeville theater
British Museum and Tate expand focus on Middle East
Both have set up acquisition committees concentrating on the region
News bites: the art world celebrates, commemorates, curates, complains, and ... stinks
Dr Penelope Curtis is a renowned scholar but also has a track record—as an exhibited artist
Mark Stephens on art censorship at the Tate: obscenity, indecency, and freedom of speech
Richard Prince's Spiritual America has been the subject of police interference, and the question of unclothed children in art is once again at the forefront
East meets West in the University of Oxford’s new-look museum of art and archaeology
Ashmolean bridges the cultural divide
New Museum show of trustee's collection is an insult to scholarship and curators
Private-collector museums
Modigliani museum closes amid owners’ dispute
Brothers fall out over future of artist’s childhood home in Livorno
Tate looks to young international artists with £120,000 acquisition fund
The works selected reflect Tate's increasingly global outlook and support of young artists
Openings and expansions: Ceramics at the V&A
Over 3000 objects from 2500CB to the present day on display
Overhaul of Tate Britain could begin early 2010
The entire refurbishment project should conclude by 2020
National Trust Scotland faces member revolt
Members express concern about running of Trust
Why has the Tate still not claimed for its stolen Freud?
Although it was covered by British government indemnity, the painting’s value remains unclaimed since its 1988 theft
Fate of historic Scottish houses under severe threat
Concerns over collections as National Trust for Scotland closes three properties
Books: Who should artifacts really belong to? And why?
A collection of essays by museum directors worldwide on restitutions and ownership
Gagosian doubling space in Los Angeles
Meanwhile, Steven Kasher moves in on Gagosian territory
V&A proposes underground galleries
Exhibition space will occupy area originally designed for abandoned Spiral project