Museums & Heritage
The haphazard methods of art restoration over the past 400 years
Christine Sitwell and Sarah Staniforth (eds), Studies in the history of painting restoration
Museum and National Trust approaches to textile conservation
A valuable collection of papers from a recent symposium
Tate Gallery: With Bow Bells, Cockney costermongers and artists
Iwona Blazwick describes a new and socially engaged style of curatorship at London’s future Tate Gallery of Modern Art
Calder-inspired mobiles are removed from several gallery gift shops in the US
The Calder foundation cites fears concerning authenticity
V&A British Galleries delay
£12 million required to complete refurbishment project.
The Van Gogh fakes scandal: the tally one year later
Last July, The Art Newspaper broke the news that at least 45 Van Gogh paintings were suspect. This is what has happened since
Opinion: Martin Borg should stop wasting time and money on his plan for a £70 million Libeskind extension
No go for the V&A Libeskind
Europe’s top photography collection now has a permanent gallery. From the dawn of photography to now
At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world
Insurance payouts for the Tate as Turners remain missing
Following thefts, Tate receives funds to repurchase works stolen in Frankfurt
Tate, St Ives: Life is a beach
Five years on and the museum has exceeded all expectations
"Publication right" introduced into UK law
Museums and collectors should hasten to protect their rights in this field
From the archive | By George! How Roy Strong acquired admired paintings of Handel and Stubbs in his first year at the National Portrait Gallery
Archives telling the story of Strong’s first years as director of the London museum, released under the 30-year rule, reveal how money was raised for two of the finest 18th-century portraits in its collection
From the archive | When Jacob Rothschild spoke out about the challenges of running the Heritage Lottery Fund
Rothschild retired as the first chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund at the end of March 1998. In a rare interview, he described its relationship with government
French support cultural diversity with $3 million going to new Hanoi museum
President of France inaugurates huge new ethnological museum
The stuff that dreams are made of: Symbolists, Pre-Raphaelites, and Fairies dominate British exhibitions
The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites
A Tate for the 21st century: decisions to be made about the collection remaining at Millbank Tate
With modern foreign art to be displayed at Bankside, opinion within the Tate differs as to how the story of British art should be told
Why we are happy with our four oil paintings: The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam responds to leading scholar’s doubt
The Van Gogh fakes controversy continues
Collection withdrawn from Swiss museums in protest against Unidroit
Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth gets twenty-six works from the blue-chip Staechelin collection on a three-year loan
New book demystifies nineteenth-century Pittsburgh collectors and how they rose out of the US's industrial centre
The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed
Sir Denis Mahon retracts his gift to the Walker in protest against entry charges
Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead
A late, great collector and the new museum of his collection: The legacy of the ever elusive John Hunt
One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland
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