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
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
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
Fiona Reynolds is the new director general of Britain’s leading heritage charity
'I love the passion here'
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
New silver gallery opens at the V&A
Three year, £3.75 million project complete
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
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
Visitor figures fall by one-third at “old” Tate since Tate Modern opening
Relaunch in October 2001 intended to bring back the public
The consensus is that one of the world’s greatest museums, the V&A, has lost its way. A strong leader is needed.
Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators
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
Questionable curatorial decisions favour words over image in Tate Modern's new hang
Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?
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
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
The mere announcement, in 1994, that the Tate was to open in Southwark’s obsolete power station, began to attract artists and galleries to this grungy neighbourhood
We speak to galleries and artists that have responded to this Tate factor
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
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
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



