Museums & Heritage
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
V&A embarks on big loan show to Baltimore on the history of the museum itself
It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry
William Morris any way you like at the V&A
A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor
£25 million needed for complete refurbishment of the fifteen British Galleries at the V&A, now in a sadly shabby state
V&A tackles Britain head-on
National Trust à la française? Inspired by Britain’s National Trust, a new Fondation du Patrimoine looks likely to be set up in France this summer.
Culture minister proposes new heritage institution funded by public membership
Eight architects listed for V&A’s Boilerhouse including Cardiff Opera designer Hadid
New structure will showcase contemporary crafts
Small dip in V&A numbers...
But Apsley House reaches record numbers following restoration
As economic development lays bare China's archaeological heritage, the government struggles to keep up with protecting the past
The Three Gorges dam and a number of smuggling stories highlight the difficulty of preserving the country's heritage
Don’t just berate the thieves: look at the museums and excavators too
In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.