Museums & Heritage

V&A and British Museum join together to buy Buddha

Purchased with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Arts Collection Fund

Saudi donor gives V&A £5.4 million for new Islamic gallery

Jameel Gallery to be funded by car dealership Hartwell PLC

V&A’s spiralling lottery hopes

£15 million bid submitted for 'Spiral' extension

Tate considers selling art

Trustees will look at whether the museum should “upgrade” works by living artists

National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million

The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment

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Tate asks permission to spend £15 million from stolen Turner paintings

The windfall from Tate's insurance claim may shortly be spent

Is Tehran’s Bacon coming to London?

Tate hopes to secure the hidden gem

The Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson now on display at Tate Modern

Could the commission for Tate's Turbine Hall create its own climate

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Tate’s archives go online

A first step towards the future

C.I. Kim's monumental Britart collection encourages the consumer to dream

The businessman, collector, and artist whose department store museum includes work by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Anthony Gormley

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Tate: how we collect photography

Not a study or a technical collection, but works of art for display

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Super sculpture scholarship collections in quick succession

The Victoria and Albert Museum has published its catalogues of the British, German, and Netherlandish collections in quick succession

Barbara Hepworth Centenary celebrated in Tate St Ives

Another show will take place in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton

Acquisitions negotiations at Tate and The Armouries: You win some, you lose some

A mysterious donor gives the Tate £12.5 million to buy Reynolds’ Omai but the Armouries fail to get Lottery support for two armours

Saatchi’s challenge to Tate with new Thameside gallery

The collector credited with transforming London’s contemporary art scene opens prestigious premises on the Thames this 17 April

Propaganda posters from the Schreyer collection at the V&A

Charting the growth of a 20th century medium of art and communication

Britain may lose Omai (twice) and an exquisite Raphael

Tate and the National Gallery reverse longstanding softly, softly policy over purchases to try to retain masterpieces

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'Live Culture' brings live performances to the Tate Modern

After a false start, Tate has a huge selection of works planned for its three-day run

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Tate poaches director of Van Abbemuseum

John Debbaut joins Nicholas Serota at Tate

Days like these: Tate triennial of contemporary British Art 2003

Theme-less this year, the triennial covers all generations and styles

In defence of Tate: Gainsborough acquisitions

Tate Director Nicholas Serota comments on recent criticism