Museums & Heritage

Tatearchive

Insurance deal for £24 million stolen Turners

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

Letters: V&A was not intended to be purely decorative

If there is a museum anywhere in the world which can claim to be the first embodiment of this inclusive, antisegregationist approach, it is the V&A.

Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern

Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy

UK's National Trust to catalogue its books collection with US funding

Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses

London News: A revolutionary row at Saatchi as changes come to the Turbine Hall, Whitechapel and Wapping

Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern

Art theftarchive

Thefts from UK national museums. Question in Parliament uncovers extensive losses

13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen

Negotiating a united front: Berlin's culture minister Christoph Stölzl takes on funding culture in the capital

It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control

How top British museums woo US donors

The Royal Academy, Tate, British Museum and National Gallery are all raising money successfully in the States, where 600,000 households report income exceeding $5m

Tokyoarchive

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: A great private enterprise

Aristocrat Toshio Hara is admired by museum directors, such as Nick Serota of the Tate, for his contemporary art museum

Flood at Tate Britain

Extensive damage to basement in Easter Sunday flood

Tate indulges sticky fingers and sabotage: works by Smith and Harwood

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Art Chicago 2000: A full house

Despite the opening of Tate Modern, which lured away many buyers, the fair was generally a success

Interview with director Glenn Lowry: Commercial company to be launched by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery

Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures

Giles Waterfield finds the new mixed hang at Tate Britain unhelpful and bullying

This new curatorial direction suggests museum just a plaything for the staff

V&A looking for new director

Alan Borg's contract extended until next year

May 2000archive

Curator interview: Tate Modern's thematic hang

An exclusive interview with The Art Newspaper about the closely guarded secret: the thinking behind how the Tate Modern has arranged its art

Tatearchive

Adam Throup on the branding of the Tate

Part of the design team at Wolff Olins, he sums up the Tate's branding redesign

Funding the Tate: A £134 million achievement

With £6m a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort

Booksarchive

Recent publications from Thames & Hudson and more

Good value and good quality with Thames & Hudson, and Tate Publications launch a raft of titles in connection with the new museums

Tate modern brasses off in a multimedia display as the London art scene prepares for the gallery's opening next month

Andrew Mummery powers up in a new gallery, Victoria Miro provides a sneak preview of her new space , and a Volkswagen van invades a front room in Camberwell

Ronald de Leeuw’s Dutch history lesson

The director of the Rijksmuseum is turning the famous museum into an artistic journey through Dutch history, and combining fine and decorative arts

Tibetarchive

The world’s largest museum of surviving Tibetan painting goes online

Shelley and Donald Rubin’s website invites contributions from museums, collectors, and scholars

Tate Britain's new thematic display revealed in 'RePresenting Britain' as international works move to Bankside

The first stage of splitting the Tate Gallery into a museum of British art and a museum of international modern art takes place this month

Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A

How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time

Ninetieth-birthday tributes to Cartier-Bresson at the V&A

The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection