Two scholarly exercises in assessing the roles of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

The museum’s low-profile fundraising has achieved the biggest capital sum ever for a UK museum, but who is to pay for the running costs?

Twenty US works are to be shown at Millbank for its inauguration in March 2001

Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement

Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at how the Colonial Willamsburg Foundation tackles the problems of shifting historical perspectives

An important test case for museums dealing with war loss cases.

Constables go to Tate and eighteenth-century works to V&A

Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory

A major loan show from Dresden’s Picture Gallery concentrates on paintings rather than decorative arts

Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands

Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at this witty and non-judgemental enterprise, one of many visual art developments already around the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art

An exhibition of Sikh treasures casts new light upon the art of an Indian culture better known for its war-like tendencies

Exhibition in London until 6 June.

Histories and anecdotes of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum

£6.2 million goes to the new Tate at Bankside before next years opening.

The former Cologne art dealer has given, lent, and sold parts of his collection to Weimar, in eastern Germany

The Tate unveils its previously unknown Bacon drawings to the world while two US museums present new views of the blockbuster British artist

The new series with The Art Newspaper

As the Tate and MoMA prepare their mammoth exhibition of works by the two artists in 2002 the Kimbell steps into the ring first with a similar, but smaller, show of its own

V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce

The ruling: Museum food is tasteful and tasty

off to Blackpool?

The incoming chair of the Preussischer Kulturbesitz thinks change is needed, but collector Heinz Berggruen defends outgoing museum director’s record

Paula Ridley appointed

Two Constables and three small paintings discovered to be missing from storage

Tony Cragg goes wild at the Lisson, Emily Tsingou gets repetitive and Manchot’s middle-aged mum is at Zelda Cheatle

Fewer loans in order to save resources

Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.