Museums & Heritage

Turner and Claude exhibited together in 'Pure as Italian Air'

Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue

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Book review: Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds), Paint and purpose: a study of technique in British art

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483

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Fair play, not the letter of the law for Tate restitution case

The panel finds Tate has legal title to a war-loot picture but agrees that the claimants should be compensated on ethical grounds

Artists of the world united

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

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One-way transfer of 19th-century works from Tate to British Museum planned

All 19th-century European drawings and watercolours in the Tate’s collection will be loaned to the BM, with the possibility of transferring ownership entirely

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Insurance deal for £24 million stolen Turners

Museum buys back title to the pictures and keeps part of the insurance money

Letters: V&A was not intended to be purely decorative

If there is a museum anywhere in the world which can claim to be the first embodiment of this inclusive, antisegregationist approach, it is the V&A.

Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern

Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy

UK's National Trust to catalogue its books collection with US funding

Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses

London News: A revolutionary row at Saatchi as changes come to the Turbine Hall, Whitechapel and Wapping

Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern

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Thefts from UK national museums. Question in Parliament uncovers extensive losses

13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen

Negotiating a united front: Berlin's culture minister Christoph Stölzl takes on funding culture in the capital

It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control

How top British museums woo US donors

The Royal Academy, Tate, British Museum and National Gallery are all raising money successfully in the States, where 600,000 households report income exceeding $5m

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Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: A great private enterprise

Aristocrat Toshio Hara is admired by museum directors, such as Nick Serota of the Tate, for his contemporary art museum

Flood at Tate Britain

Extensive damage to basement in Easter Sunday flood

Tate indulges sticky fingers and sabotage: works by Smith and Harwood

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Art Chicago 2000: A full house

Despite the opening of Tate Modern, which lured away many buyers, the fair was generally a success

Interview with director Glenn Lowry: Commercial company to be launched by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery

Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures

Giles Waterfield finds the new mixed hang at Tate Britain unhelpful and bullying

This new curatorial direction suggests museum just a plaything for the staff

V&A looking for new director

Alan Borg's contract extended until next year

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Curator interview: Tate Modern's thematic hang

An exclusive interview with The Art Newspaper about the closely guarded secret: the thinking behind how the Tate Modern has arranged its art

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Adam Throup on the branding of the Tate

Part of the design team at Wolff Olins, he sums up the Tate's branding redesign

Funding the Tate: A £134 million achievement

With £6m a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort