Museums & Heritage
Le Corbusier before Le Corbusier: exhibition focuses on the formative years of experimentation
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Design and Culture
We serve all cultures, say the big, global museums: World's leading institutions release a declaration on restitution
Including a reproduction of the declaration in full
Tate St Ives transports with 'Real life'
Video works from a number of top artists are now on show
Gainsborough's House director Hugh Belsey on competing with Tate: Goliath wins
Should Gainsborough’s House have given way to the Tate over a painting in the current Tate exhibition?
The Royal Collection's list of paintings acquired in the first 50 years of Elizabeth II's reign
The acquisitions have not been ostentatious, with a significant portion of them being historic royal portraits, bequests or donations
National Trust membership reaches 3 million
The largest conservation body in Europe
Tate appoints associate curator of Latin American art
Cuauhtémoc Medina has nabbed the position, intended to broaden the Tate's sights beyond Europe and North America
From the archive: The enigmatic spirit of Lord Byron on show at London's National Portrait Gallery
The poet's biographer Fiona MacCarthy placed the Romantic Regency poet in the context of 20th-century film stardom
Interview with Tate Modern's new director Vicente Todoli: “Globalisation is the essential spirit of art”
The Spaniard speaks on his 20 years of experience and his visions of the future
100 Photographs: a collection by Bruce Bernard
Photographs from the 1840s to the 1990s never before shown in public
Barbara Kruger case: Art trumps right to privacy
A US Federal court has thrown out the case against artist Barbara Kruger for her appropriation of a 1960 photo, and against the Whitney Museum and LA MoCA for selling goods reproducing the offending image
Under Mussolini: decorative and propaganda arts of the Twenties and Thirties from the Wolfson Collection, Genoa
Estorick Collection
The original Tate for sale: Henry Tate's Streatham Mansion could be yours
Barrat Developers splitting up original Tate residence after nuns vacate
Munich opens one of the world’s greatest collections of 20th-century art
On a par with Tate Modern or the Centre Pompidou, the Pinakothek der Moderne is the largest new gallery for a generation
Amid protests UK Treasury decides not to sell its silver
Loans instead organised for V&A and other museums
A formula for indifference
Why “cultural diversity” arts policies are condescending and do not enlarge the understanding of other cultures
The highest profile vacancy in the art world has finally been filled with the appointment of Vicente Todoli as the new director of Tate Modern
A Spaniard for Tate Modern
A donation from the Kreitman Foundation has supported this month’s opening of a huge but little known archive of artists’ letters, notebooks, photos and ephemera
The trifles and hidden lives of artists
Victoria and Albert Museum plans £150 million radical rethink of the displays
Among the first tasks to be tackled is the complete refurbishment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.
Utopia & Reality: modernity in Sweden 1900-60
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
Public Accounts Committee report critical of Victoria & Albert Museum, "Repeat visitors a sign of failure" say politicians
The verbatim account of the committee’s hearings which took place last March makes depressing reading
Acceptance in lieu deal worth £9.3 million agreed for historic house furniture
Houghton Hall’s William Kent furniture to remain in house but to belong to Victoria & Albert Museum
The Estate of Francis Bacon drops legal action against Marlborough
No evidence of blackmail, and video shows the artist satisfied with his gallery
Seeing Things: photographing objects 1850-2001
Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum