The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness of the museum’s collections

Museo del Territorio, Biella, Piedmont

Revelations concerning the pre-Columbian fakes came to light after the death of founder

Potentially key witnesses, David Sylvester, Gilbert de Botton and Gilbert Lloyd, are all dead

Blow is back in Cornwall with a bright new crop of works

With a very glamorous display, this is the first serious look at Netherlandish rococo architecture and decorative arts

The refurbished and extended Ludwig Museum has opened, with hundreds of Picassos on display and a colour-coded system for requesting sponsorship

If architecture is the mother of the arts then this is the whole family

The opening of new galleries and the division of the museum’s collection with Tate Modern have realised Sir Henry Tate’s vision of a national gallery for British art. Three rooms for Constable and one each for Hogarth and Blake

V&A in search of global partners

Feverish visions at Coles and Tsingou, Childcare at Timothy Taylor and White Cube and the Russians are coming to Vilma Gold

As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles

Museums must set the standard for collectors and dealers, says Manus Brinkman Secretary General of the International Council of Museums

An installation in disguise

What changes the election have wrought

First year of success for Tate Modern

Spring 2002 to see new Research Centre at Millbank

Yes, you can show decorative arts and be interesting

What will they spend the insurance money on?

MoMA “to continue alone”

Reflecting the continuous rise in the value of art and importance of provenance

Gilbert Scott’s massive Gothic Revival screen has been restored for £750,000 and goes on public view for the first time in over three decades

The director’s new scheme of quarterly changes will show more than just the work of local artists

Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou

A National Audit Office Report concludes that visitors are discouraged from visiting the institution because of its “highbrow” image

A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book

Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland

A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

Special viewings arranged for expected international collectors

The San Martino’s decorative arts and theatre collections are, at last, on show again, in new rooms