Museums & Heritage
Miniature altar destroyed by thieves at the V&A
Grab and smash operation on 11 November
Senator presents bill in Parliament to liberalise circulation of Italian archaeological items
The proposal is greeted by suspicion and political posturing within the Italian art and archaeology world and even the Ministry of Culture.
Rockefeller home given to the U.S. National Trust with princely endowment
Family bequeath home with $46.25 million (£26.4 million) for upkeep
Gerhard Richter survey at the Tate Gallery
Nick Serota launches into a new policy towards international contemporary art
Polish museums to sell military equipment preserved in bogs
They have already dug out several dozen armoured cars, field-guns, transporters and other vehicles
The National Trust’s 6000 paintings on microfiche
Large, unpublished collections now available
Nick Serota on his second Tate rehang and his vision for what will be “one of the great museums of late twentieth-century art”
Defending his acquisitions and looking to the future, Serita talks on exhibitions and an international outlook
The external restoration of Uppark House in West Sussex is virtually complete, two years after the fire which half gutted the building in August 1989
Restoration largest ever attempted by the National Trust
New gallery of Korean Art at the V&A
A space for over 600 decorative arts objects
What's on in New York: Art after dark and pregnant men in bus shelters, waterpurifying inventions and early studio pots
That is: Barbara Kruger, Helen and Newton Harrison, and George Ohr
Ro-Tate: Tate's rehang success with 1,500,000 visitors in attendance
It’s all change at the Tate Gallery, as part of Nick Serota’s policy of rotating the collections
In memoriam: the V&A’s role in the study of historic houses
Care of Ham House and Osterley Park to be taken over by the National Trust
Musée Guimet displays spectacular collection of Himalayan art that will one day join its own
Collector Lionel Fournier talks about Asian art he will leave the museum
German electronics engineer opens fakes museum in Milan
Gottfried Matthaes explains that his family fakes gave him the idea
Gallery owner Cannaviello plans a broad-ranging Modern art museum in Milan
It would be the first to be run as a plc, with works of art as its capital base and private collectors as its shareholders
Museum boom planned for Spanish capital
Vast collections emerge: archaeology, ethnographic and waxworks.
From the archive | Jacob Rothschild restores Spencer House, the Princess of Wales’s family house in London
Some of the house's 18th-century furniture has been lent back by the Victoria & Albert Museum but other pieces and paintings integral ot its design have left Britain for good