Museums & Heritage
Starry night for Tate in New York: celebrity friends help museum fundraise in style
Sarah Jessica Parker and the mysterious Tate Americas Foundation raise money for Latin American acquisitions
V&A strengthens ties with Qatar by showing pearls exhibition from Doha, despite ethical concerns
Museum closes a cultural gulf
Museums caught in the crossfire of discrimination in Russia
Conservative and anti-gay campaigns hit museums
Ch… ch… ch… ch… changes at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the first institution to gain access to David Bowie’s 75,000-item archive
Artists Barbara Hepworth and Andrew Forge and fellow Tate trustee Herbert Read opposed a £4,665 Lichtenstein in 1966
After a heated debate the purchase, estimated to be worth more than $40m, went ahead
Sweet factory could be Moscow’s Tate Modern
It will be part of a larger development that will include office space, retail outlets and swanky lofts
Miró on loan damaged at Tate Modern
The museum forked out £203,000 for repair and depreciation costs
Tate Modern’s quick cash-flow fix involves dipping into collections fund
The £12 will be used to complete the London museum's extension, but it will be repaid at a later date
New V&A gallery focused on furniture making techniques
The V&A rocks its Gothic cradle
Drip, drag and drape: Tate explores performance art and paint in motion
Tate Modern shows that painting and performance are not polar opposites, but have a long history of interaction
Tate spreads acquisition net to India and Russia
The museum is committed to diversifying their collection
Tate to launch two new acquisitions committees
The globalisation of Tate's collection continues
A not so golden Olympics- tourist numbers drop
London’s leading museums lose more than a million visitors during the Games, but Hirst helps Tate Modern buck the trend
Rothko and Sugimoto set the pace at Pace
Monochromatic works by both artists will be juxtaposed in Pace's new London location
Grow, grow, Gagosian: Gallery expands to Brazil
Temporary space in Rio de Janeiro means the gallery’s total space is greater than Tate Modern
Alvaro Saieh explains his collecting habits and fascination with Old Masters
Inspired by a talk at Christie’s, the collector has amassed 150 works from the 13th to 16th centuries, as well as Modern and contemporary pieces
Green light for V&A to expand underground
Design includes a courtyard and new entrance
Get tanked at the Tate: first permanent museum galleries devoted to installation and live art open at Bankside
Dancers and a singles’ night open Tate Modern’s new space
The Unilever Series: Tino Sehgal comes to the Turbine Hall
His ephemeral performance art is on display 24 July-28 October
Tate Britain opts for chronological hang with refurbishment project progressing
The galleries are set to reopen in May after funding goals were reached
Collectors' gift of Hockney and Freud to the Tate honours its director
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker have conferred an exceedingly generous donation on the gallery
Tate admits error in giving away confidential export data as archive is offloaded to Paul Mellon Centre
The photographic archive of paintings was transferred in haste - twice
Two museums promised a third of one of the great collections of modern American art
Which poses the question: will the late Hannelore Schulhof’s heirs sell major works?
Pompidou welcomes Daniel and Florence Guerlain’s deferred gift of 1000 contemporary drawings
The Guerlains are mindful of the fate of an ancestor’s impressionist works, having no wish for their collection to be divvied up in the same manner
Three museums in search of mega-millions for extensions and refurbishments
Despite the recession, the British Museum, Tate and V&A attract major donations
Tate Britain Director defends curatorial changes
Constable and Turner experts may go