Museums & Heritage

V&A, Grace notes

Canova's masterpiece at rest at last

"Into a New Museum" among exhibitions organised at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new location

The opening displays, with recent gifts of Matisse, de Kooning, Marden, Polke and Richter, show John Lane's success in wooing San Francisco collectors

Tate Gallery annual report for 1992-94: great progress on small funds

The study shows an increasing and successful reliance on non-government support in this time of limited funding and frozen resources

The Hepworth papers: why the delay?

Despite the sculptor’s wishes, Alan Bowness has failed to hand her papers over to the Tate

Photography thriving in London, shortage of collectors notwithstanding

Few buyers, but innovative galleries win the public's approval

Corporations favour political correctness

Arts sponsorship is increasingly associated with marketing concerns rather than disinterested corporate philanthropy

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“I still believe in the hand of the artist”: Interview with collector Eugene Thaw

The connoisseur, dealer, collector and patron of the Morgan Library discusses the importance of emotional impact, and how the art market has transformed since the start of his career

Happy First Birthday, Tate St Ives

A first year of success for Cornish gallery

Pugin, founder of modernism, in a riot of polychromy at the V&A

A major survey of the high priest of the Gothic Revival

A new view of Picasso as sculptor and painter at the Tate

The Tate Gallery's major spring exhibition is a reassessment of the role of sculpture in Picasso's career

At last we have a serious decorative arts show: John Channon at the V&A,

The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.

Classical taste in America, Washington's official style

Neo-classicism as expressed in painting sculpture and the decorative arts in a touring exhibition

Who does research in museums?

"Where there is no research, there is no museum", says Wolf Dieter Dube, director of the Berlin museums, but this tenet has come under attack in recent years.

The Uffizi bomb: The Galleries reopen

£13 million voted by the government has yet to arrive: most of the restoration has so far been paid for by public donation. Alberto Ronchey, Minister for Culture, has declared his aim to see thirty new rooms created within three years in former storage space, tripling the size of the Uffizi

In the land of King Arthur, towards the setting sun: Tate gallery, St Ives

A third branch of Britain's leading modern art gallery opens, with emphasis on the St Ives artistic community

Ha-Ha: the National Trust goes contemporary with outdoor art

England's stately homes embrace Davey and Goldsworthy

Columns of glass at the V&A

New glass gallery to open early next year

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Tate considers magazine

A publication is planned for the gallery, with a pilot projected for September