Museums & Heritage
Plans for Kolkata Museum of Modern Art: India's answer to Tate Modern?
A major new museum to be built in eastern India is being largely supported by commercial galleries and corporate collections
Sotheby’s backs Tate sculpture commission
Martin Creed installation opens 30th June
Swiss collector to open her own museum in Arles
Maja Hoffmann wants to hire Frank Gehry to design her gallery
Tate Modern gets £50m towards new extension from the government
The generous contribution is the highest made to a cultural project in 10 years
Russian art collective AES+F celebrates 20th anniversary with retrospective
Tate acquires edition of video shown at this year’s Venice Biennale
Tate Modern is a museum for the 21st century
The announcement by the British Government that it is putting £50m towards the costs of the new development of Tate Modern is one of the most significant moves in public cultural policy in recent years
V&A contemporary gallery funded by disgraced Tory’s family charity
New space named after the Porter family
Tate expansion by Herzog & de Meuron secures $100m from British state
Swiss duo stake claim to be the art world’s favourite architects
John Linnell painting stolen in daylight robbery at the V&A
ary Doyle pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court
Security breaches at Tate, British Museum and Musée d’Orsay
A Monet suffered a 10cm tear from being punched
Revealed: how a US collector gave Churchill a Monet the Tate wanted
Charing Cross Bridge of 1902 was gifted by a friend after he was ensured it would satisfy by Tate director John Rothenstein
Tate to go for Rubens Whitehall sketch
Valued at £11.5m, the preliminary sketch for The Apotheosis of King James I is now up for sale
Slower than planned, Tate Modern’s expansion starts in the basement
Only part of the project will be completed by next summer, with a lack of funds hampering progress
Tate to launch Tate Channel, a film and video resource
This ambitious project will serve as an archive, allowing unprecedented remote access to information and art
V&A considers leasing paintings
Director Mark Jones believes works should be loaned out rather than kept in storage
Fifth year of Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund: What Tate bought at Frieze
This year the budget was £150,000, spent on just four pieces
Rothko comes to Rome for the first time since 1970
The 70 painting strong exhibition will be in the newly reopened Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Metropolitan re-opens Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts
Also now open is its Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education
V&A sets its sights on expansion—again
New plans for developing the former 'Spiral' space
V&A appoints medieval collector as chair
Paul Ruddock accepted the position after Sir John Tusa changed his mind
Tate aims to increase ethnic minority visitors
In the current funding agreement with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the gallery’s “Diversity strategy” is described as a “key priority”
Comment: the problem with a collector-driven market
There is a danger that money will trump knowledge, observed the New York dealer in 2007
Lord Leighton's masterpiece Flaming June to go on display at Tate Britain
The painting will be loaned by Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico as it refurbishes its gallery, along with Burne-Jones' Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon
Tate to buy more work by women
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
Tate woos US patrons with cocktails at 10 Downing Street
Guggenheim director says US institutions cannot compete with such incentives
News from London: The importance of s**t and sp**k, urine, and sex
Meanwhile, Grayson Perry displays his (disco) balls
Miami Art Museum and Miami Art Central may merge
Collectors show their support for Miami art museums
Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
MoMA completes merger with PS1
“It is like another department at the museum,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry
