Museums & Heritage

A new view of Picasso as sculptor and painter at the Tate

The Tate Gallery's major spring exhibition is a reassessment of the role of sculpture in Picasso's career

At last we have a serious decorative arts show: John Channon at the V&A,

The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.

Classical taste in America, Washington's official style

Neo-classicism as expressed in painting sculpture and the decorative arts in a touring exhibition

Who does research in museums?

"Where there is no research, there is no museum", says Wolf Dieter Dube, director of the Berlin museums, but this tenet has come under attack in recent years.

The Uffizi bomb: The Galleries reopen

£13 million voted by the government has yet to arrive: most of the restoration has so far been paid for by public donation. Alberto Ronchey, Minister for Culture, has declared his aim to see thirty new rooms created within three years in former storage space, tripling the size of the Uffizi

In the land of King Arthur, towards the setting sun: Tate gallery, St Ives

A third branch of Britain's leading modern art gallery opens, with emphasis on the St Ives artistic community

Ha-Ha: the National Trust goes contemporary with outdoor art

England's stately homes embrace Davey and Goldsworthy

Columns of glass at the V&A

New glass gallery to open early next year

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Tate considers magazine

A publication is planned for the gallery, with a pilot projected for September

Vanbrugh at the V&A

Newly bought architectural albums on show

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Tate planning a national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century’s done

Tate makes early bid for National Lottery largesse to expand southward

Annual conferences meet in London and Seattle to discuss identity, display, and art history

The Association of Art Historians will meet at the Tate Gallery, while 5000 will gather for the College Art Association conference in the US

Korean art at the V&A

New space sponsored by Samsung corporation

New gallery showcasing 20th-century design opens at the V&A

Spanning the history of consumer design from 1900 to 1992, it aims to explore design ideas, techniques and materials as well as individual pieces and mass-produced objects.

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Should the Tate Gallery split?

We asked leading figures in the art world whether the Tate should divide into the British Collections and a museum of international modern art: all but one were in favour

The V&A recruits European talent

Dr Norbert Jopek to join Sculpture department

From the archive | How "Pumpkin", a George Stubbs portrait of a horse, caused Paul Mellon to fall in love with collecting

The great collector and museum benefactor discusses his memoir "Reflections in a Silver Spoon", his championing of British sporting art and his family's backing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC

Letters: There was no political interference at the V&A

Restructuring proposals not the result of political interference

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"New Displays" at the Tate Gallery makes special rooms for Joseph Beuys and Rebecca Horn

Important loans include portraits by Hogarth and Gainsborough and five landscapes by Constable

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The place of scholars in the commercial art market: how to avoid shameful infections and a diminution of the truth?

It is pointless to pretend that the commercial art world and the worlds of research do not interpenetrate each other. Here we look at the relationship, present and past, and ask ourselves, in what respect is the art historian any different from the lawyer who sells his opinion?

V&A curtails access to its national collections of slides and books

National Slide Library transfer to Leicester to proceed in spite of protests

Only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior in Europe installed at the V&A

After twenty years in boxes a friend of the patron’s family funds its display

The art of death surveyed at the V&A

An eclectic selection of memento mori