Museums & Heritage
Revealed: what happened to the “degenerate” art in Germany’s museums, from G to Z
A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis
Britain’s National Art Library is full so V&A library may occupy the old Public Record Office
The curators are reluctant, but a move seems unavoidable
Lottery winners and losers. £150 million to make Britain’s museums and galleries into world leaders
But Victoria and Albert Museum’s £23m British Galleries project sent back to the drawing board
Victoria and Albert, until 27 July. The cutting edge
Tradition meets trendiness in this huge exhibition of British fashion
More Tate of the North
600,000 visitors a year and £3.8 million from the National Lottery
International designer fashion gift to the V&A
200 outfits to enter the collection
American photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vernacular aesthetics and aesthetic vernacular
The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it
Gilbert collection of gold and silver to go to Medici palace as well as the V&A
Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays
National Trust finds rare Gothic altarpiece in stables
Seven hundred year-old painting was dismissed as nineteenth-century
Exemplary £2 million refurbishment of the silver galleries at the V&A opens this month
Please touch, learn—and enjoy
Pilars, Doloreses, Imaculadas etc catalogued at the V&A
Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture
Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
Fabricant, ex-Gagosian, joins Richard Gray
Andrew Fabricant will shortly be opening an office in New York
The V&A introduces a £5 admission fee
Income from tickets represented about double the average weekly level of voluntary contributions.
Peanuts this ain’t: the V&A's Raphael Court to reopen
Refurbishment has cost £2 million
How the Po-Shing Woo Foundation has subsidised the British art world
The Becket casket and Guercino are just two works of art saved for Britain with money from a Hong Kong lawyer
Wonnacott's big week: while one painting by the artist has been sold to the Tate, another has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery
Wonnacott's portrait of John Major is on view at Agnew's
With the Castle Howard Guercino, Timothy Clifford has saved from export one more in a long line of masterpieces. Is he the last of Britain’s great acquirers?
The successes and (rare) failures of a passionate collector
Artist Derek Hill gives over eighty works of art to Mottisfont Abbey
First modern art collection for the National Trust
Miami Beach, the Wolfsonian, “Sometimes it moves sideways and sometimes it moves backwards but generally speaking it will move forward”
Financial problems for decorative arts museum launched last November
The V&A opens first gallery devoted to the history and meaning of ornament
From rinceaux to Reeboks
Saatchi & Gagosian to collaborate?
Charles Saatchi and Larry Gagosian are discussing a joint gallery, reports Roger Bevan
Mixed reactions to Gilbert gift of £75 million decorative arts donation
It has been well received in Britain. In Los Angeles, there are divided opinions on the collection and its owner
Bold design for new V&A building by Daniel Libeskind, but government cuts force compulsory entrance charge
V&A in brave act of patronage
Famous writer’s eclectic collection to open to the public in 1998 with $4.6 million from the Bavarian State
A museum of chaos to make men marvel
Cézanne puts Tate £1 million up.
A successful show, with record attendance of 409,000 visitors
The acceptance of items of national heritage in lieu of inheritance tax continues to provide public collections in Britain with new material
A Tanguy for the Tate, important furniture for the V&A
Contemporary from the Froehlich Foundation and sculptures from the friends to swell ranks at Tate
Austrian industrialist Joseph Froehlich is loaning major works of German and American art to the museum while Friends of the Tate contribute several new gifts
Tate finally gets some of Hepworth archive
After much controversy surrounding the archives release, Sir Alan Bowness releases part of the archive to Tate
Letters: Gagging clauses imposed on curators forced into early retirement
Secrecy at the old V&A