Museums & Heritage

How top British museums woo US donors

The Royal Academy, Tate, British Museum and National Gallery are all raising money successfully in the States, where 600,000 households report income exceeding $5m

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Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: A great private enterprise

Aristocrat Toshio Hara is admired by museum directors, such as Nick Serota of the Tate, for his contemporary art museum

Flood at Tate Britain

Extensive damage to basement in Easter Sunday flood

Tate indulges sticky fingers and sabotage: works by Smith and Harwood

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Art Chicago 2000: A full house

Despite the opening of Tate Modern, which lured away many buyers, the fair was generally a success

Interview with director Glenn Lowry: Commercial company to be launched by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery

Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures

Giles Waterfield finds the new mixed hang at Tate Britain unhelpful and bullying

This new curatorial direction suggests museum just a plaything for the staff

V&A looking for new director

Alan Borg's contract extended until next year

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Curator interview: Tate Modern's thematic hang

An exclusive interview with The Art Newspaper about the closely guarded secret: the thinking behind how the Tate Modern has arranged its art

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Adam Throup on the branding of the Tate

Part of the design team at Wolff Olins, he sums up the Tate's branding redesign

Funding the Tate: A £134 million achievement

With £6m a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort

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Recent publications from Thames & Hudson and more

Good value and good quality with Thames & Hudson, and Tate Publications launch a raft of titles in connection with the new museums

Tate modern brasses off in a multimedia display as the London art scene prepares for the gallery's opening next month

Andrew Mummery powers up in a new gallery, Victoria Miro provides a sneak preview of her new space , and a Volkswagen van invades a front room in Camberwell

Ronald de Leeuw’s Dutch history lesson

The director of the Rijksmuseum is turning the famous museum into an artistic journey through Dutch history, and combining fine and decorative arts

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The world’s largest museum of surviving Tibetan painting goes online

Shelley and Donald Rubin’s website invites contributions from museums, collectors, and scholars

Tate Britain's new thematic display revealed in 'RePresenting Britain' as international works move to Bankside

The first stage of splitting the Tate Gallery into a museum of British art and a museum of international modern art takes place this month

Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A

How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time

Ninetieth-birthday tributes to Cartier-Bresson at the V&A

The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection

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Tate forms partnerships with regional venues across Britain

An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection

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The Victoria and Albert Museum. The great Kensington Kunstkammer

The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books

Vast Bourgeois for the new Tate as the first of five commissions

Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall

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Bloomsbury: a rather faded modernity

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

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How to raise £166 million for the Tate: “Money follows energy”

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?

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Special loan arrangements set up between Tate Gallery and Yale Center for British Art.

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

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V&A off limits to women in 1913?

Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement

Colonial Williamsburg: Authentic, fake or 1920s dreamland?

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