Museums & Heritage
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
Major gift of works by Calder to Chicago’s contemporary museum
This ups the museums holdings of the artist to 22
Letters: There was no political interference at the V&A
Restructuring proposals not the result of political interference
"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
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
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Large, unpublished collections now available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