Museums & Heritage
Washington DC. Corcoran’s future remains uncertain
The institution hopes a $2m V&A blockbuster exhibition of modernist design will draw visitors and sponsors
The Russian Culture Ministry has ruled that museums can no longer authenticate works of art for dealers and commercial galleries.
Culture ministry responds to fakes certified by leading institutions
London: Campaign to save Theatre Museum fails
The V&A could not raise the money to keep it running
News from the US: Bush and Blair go under the (sledge) hammer, the Whitney suffers loan woes, and Rakowitz can't get a date
Tate’s US patrons applaud the destruction of cake effigies, while MoMA makes life difficult
New agreement between the Tate and National Gallery allows for more flexibility
Meeting between museum directors results in increased flexibility whilst borrowing pictures outside the 1900 division
Salvador Dalí tea set for V&A
Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year
A response to Peter Watson's The Medici Conspiracy: Collectors should be defended
"The picture he paints is one where the only people to have any legitimate interest in ancient art objects are closeted archaeologists"
What Tate bought at Frieze 2006
The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection
What Tate paid for art 2004-06
A complete list of Tate's acquisitions from the last two years, and what they paid for them
V&A steams ahead in fundraising for new galleries
Money comes in, openings on course
Tate and Scottish National Gallery in talks to acquire d’Offay collection
Legendary dealer is thought to own 700 works worth £100m
Tate announces its exhibition schedule for 2007
Next year's schedule is packed with big names
Tate reveals what it spent in response to Ofili controversy
In an unprecedented move, the gallery has published the cost of all its purchases for the last two years
New legislation could lead to the end of partial gifts to museums
Changes to US tax law could discourage collectors from giving
Watchdog criticises Tate for Ofili purchase
The Charity Commission is now investigating all acquisitions made from artists while they were serving as trustees
Ziggurat extension for Tate
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, this addition to the museum will provide much needed exhibition space
Sotheby’s Holbein will not be included in Tate show
Neither will the National Gallery’s Ambassadors which was judged too fragile to travel across London
Museum of Decorative Arts to re-open in Paris—six years late
September launch will complete “Grand Louvre” project
French museum sends Léger, Picasso and Modigliani on tour of Japan
Japanese enjoy art more than French, says curator of Lille Métropole Museum of Modern Art
V&A opens its £5.4m Islamic gallery
The new display is entirely funded by the Jameel family of Saudi Arabia
New acquisitions go on view at Tate
Tate Modern's first rehang includes Marlene Dumas
How the entire British art world was duped by a fake Egyptian statue
The British Museum, Christie’s, the National Art Collections Fund and the Inland Revenue, among others, were all fooled
Official u-turn over Tate's museum status
MLA director apologises as Tate reserves right to decide over national accreditation—without loss of privilege
First Tate Modern, now Herzog & de Meuron convert power station in Madrid
Spain's La Caixa follows in Tate's footsteps
News from London: Wyn Evans lights up night sky while Koons goes green in the V&A
The Tate Triennial might be a critical damp squib, but the veteran artist Cerith Wyn Evans made sure the opening went with a bang
Tate is not a museum: Gallery could lose privileges
As it is not accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council due to its deacquisition guidelines
A pilot restoration project modelled on the National Trust is being launched later this year in Russia
Putin looks to UK to save listed buildings
Tate considers National Gallery’s proposal to show early 20th-century art
Trustees discuss idea following our report
