Museums & Heritage
“Turner apathy” at the Tate raises questions about spending
What will they spend the insurance money on?
Former Met lawyer to advise private collectors and museums
Reflecting the continuous rise in the value of art and importance of provenance
The Hereford Screen, the V&A’s greatest hidden treasure, to be revealed this month
Gilbert Scott’s massive Gothic Revival screen has been restored for £750,000 and goes on public view for the first time in over three decades
Tate Gallery, St Ives: Patrick Heron in context
The director’s new scheme of quarterly changes will show more than just the work of local artists
What's on in London: Tracey Emin builds a helter-skelter
Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou
Victoria & Albert Museum: too posh for the people?
A National Audit Office Report concludes that visitors are discouraged from visiting the institution because of its “highbrow” image
Queen Victoria’s Centenary at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Conspicuous by her absence
A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book
Coins and medals expert appointed to Victoria & Albert Museum
Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland
Tate Modern's 'Century City' receives mixed reviews
A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said
Paris Museums support drawings fair Salon de Dessin for the first time
Special viewings arranged for expected international collectors
Bella Napoli, Museo di San Martino, Naples
The San Martino’s decorative arts and theatre collections are, at last, on show again, in new rooms
Turner and Claude exhibited together in 'Pure as Italian Air'
Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue
Book review: Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds), Paint and purpose: a study of technique in British art
(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483
Fair play, not the letter of the law for Tate restitution case
The panel finds Tate has legal title to a war-loot picture but agrees that the claimants should be compensated on ethical grounds
Fiona Reynolds is the new director general of Britain’s leading heritage charity
'I love the passion here'
Artists of the world united
Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century
New silver gallery opens at the V&A
Three year, £3.75 million project complete
One-way transfer of 19th-century works from Tate to British Museum planned
All 19th-century European drawings and watercolours in the Tate’s collection will be loaned to the BM, with the possibility of transferring ownership entirely
Insurance deal for £24 million stolen Turners
Museum buys back title to the pictures and keeps part of the insurance money
Letters: V&A was not intended to be purely decorative
If there is a museum anywhere in the world which can claim to be the first embodiment of this inclusive, antisegregationist approach, it is the V&A.
Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern
Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy
Visitor figures fall by one-third at “old” Tate since Tate Modern opening
Relaunch in October 2001 intended to bring back the public
The consensus is that one of the world’s greatest museums, the V&A, has lost its way. A strong leader is needed.
Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators
UK's National Trust to catalogue its books collection with US funding
Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses
London News: A revolutionary row at Saatchi as changes come to the Turbine Hall, Whitechapel and Wapping
Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern
Questionable curatorial decisions favour words over image in Tate Modern's new hang
Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?
Thefts from UK national museums. Question in Parliament uncovers extensive losses
13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen
Negotiating a united front: Berlin's culture minister Christoph Stölzl takes on funding culture in the capital
It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control

