Museums & Heritage

Tate Britain: Sugar baron’s dream comes true

The opening of new galleries and the division of the museum’s collection with Tate Modern have realised Sir Henry Tate’s vision of a national gallery for British art. Three rooms for Constable and one each for Hogarth and Blake

What's on in London: Pitching and catching at Lisson

Feverish visions at Coles and Tsingou, Childcare at Timothy Taylor and White Cube and the Russians are coming to Vilma Gold

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Antique textiles: A boom from the loom as museum buying and new collectors hike prices

As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles

How The Met and the Louvre are complicit in the illegal art and antiques trade: Interview with Manus Brinkman

Museums must set the standard for collectors and dealers, says Manus Brinkman Secretary General of the International Council of Museums

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Government policy: The new people in charge

What changes the election have wrought

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Kreitman’s donation opens Tate archive to the public

Spring 2002 to see new Research Centre at Millbank

Lawarchive

Former Met lawyer to advise private collectors and museums

Reflecting the continuous rise in the value of art and importance of provenance

The Hereford Screen, the V&A’s greatest hidden treasure, to be revealed this month

Gilbert Scott’s massive Gothic Revival screen has been restored for £750,000 and goes on public view for the first time in over three decades

Tate Gallery, St Ives: Patrick Heron in context

The director’s new scheme of quarterly changes will show more than just the work of local artists

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What's on in London: Tracey Emin builds a helter-skelter

Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou

Victoria & Albert Museum: too posh for the people?

A National Audit Office Report concludes that visitors are discouraged from visiting the institution because of its “highbrow” image

Queen Victoria’s Centenary at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Conspicuous by her absence

A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book

Coins and medals expert appointed to Victoria & Albert Museum

Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland

Tate Modern's 'Century City' receives mixed reviews

A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

Art fairsarchive

Paris Museums support drawings fair Salon de Dessin for the first time

Special viewings arranged for expected international collectors

Bella Napoli, Museo di San Martino, Naples

The San Martino’s decorative arts and theatre collections are, at last, on show again, in new rooms

Turner and Claude exhibited together in 'Pure as Italian Air'

Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue

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Book review: Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds), Paint and purpose: a study of technique in British art

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483

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Fair play, not the letter of the law for Tate restitution case

The panel finds Tate has legal title to a war-loot picture but agrees that the claimants should be compensated on ethical grounds

Artists of the world united

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

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One-way transfer of 19th-century works from Tate to British Museum planned

All 19th-century European drawings and watercolours in the Tate’s collection will be loaned to the BM, with the possibility of transferring ownership entirely

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Insurance deal for £24 million stolen Turners

Museum buys back title to the pictures and keeps part of the insurance money