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Edouard Vuillard survey to visit four cities, starting at Washington's National Gallery of Art

A complete picture of the post-Impressionist master that does not shy away from his 20th-century activity

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National Gallery and Getty fight over Raphael

The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million

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The new Imperial War Museum North is a failure—as a museum

Our reporter visits Daniel Libeskind’s latest building in Manchester

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MoMA sculptures on show at the New York Botanical Gardens

Also exhibited are rare and illustrated books on botany to inaugurate their new gallery

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How has MoMA prepared for its move from Manhattan during renovations?

The Museum of Modern Art has relocated to a working-class borough across the river while its famous headquarters expands

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Portrait of MoMA’s new home: Long Island City

The area is home to a growing number of cultural institutions

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"Modernism and Post-Modernism" conference in Teheran at the Museum of Contemporary Art the result of President Khatami's influence

The Art Newspaper speaks to the museum's director Sami Azar about how a more progressive government brought about Iran's increasing acceptance of Western ideas

Pollock Fine Art opens new gallery

As well as showing the work of contemporary artists they have a special interest in Andy Warhol and Pop art

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San Francisco MoMA has new director

Mr Benezra comes to the city's Museum of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago

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Senator investigates MoMA

The Federal Finance Committee aims to stop financial abuses at US museums

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New director for the Warburg Institute

Charles Hope is to succeed Nicholas Mann

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Costs of Afghan war may curtail promised State funding to struggling Hermitage Museum

Published accounts show that in 2000 the Hermitage raised 65% of its budget

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MoMA art to move to Berlin during renovation

Highlights of the collection are starting a world tour with a stop at the Nationalgalerie

Deal struck with the Banca del Gottardo will put Guggenheim's vision for Venice satellite into motion

The money will be divided between improvements to the original Peggy Guggenheim Collection and a feasibility study for the Foundation’s expansion

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New French legislation allows works less than 30 years old to be deaccessioned

Contemporary art museums say their collections are undervalued and at risk

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Boijmans Foundation and Rotterdam museum disagree over war loot issue

The Boijman’s van Beuningen museum wants to return a looted Toorop

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Can drawings produced in concentration camps be works of art or are they Holocaust documents?

A new exhibition looks at works produced by artists while detained by the Nazis

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Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's

The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection

What are museums doing to collect, store and show internet art?

Ossian Ward investigates European and US perspectives and the issues of conservation and ownership

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Six hundred works of uncertain provenance listed in report on UK museums

This will assist in the identification of looted artworks

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Making up for the government's failures: Interview with Lord Sainsbury

Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover has provided crucial support for many of Britain’s greatest art institutions

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Publisher Si Newhouse resigns from board over buying Picasso deaccessioned by the museum

Museum of Modern Art’s relations with former trustee's relations were “warm but distant”

Two exhibitions celebrating the centenary of Giacometti's birth examine the fruitful relationships he shared with artists to which he was bonded by blood or everything but

While the Fondazione Mazzotta concentrates on how mountainous terrain shaped the family psyche, his associations with Balthus and Cartier-Bresson are made clear in the European Academy's "Friendship: the only land"

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National Museum of Iraq recovers 5,000 Sumerian artefacts

Archaeologists descended upon three sites in Southern Iraq rumoured to contain antiquities

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Sue Runyard's new practical handbook explains how to sell your museum

A introduction which examines the principles that underlie marketing and public relations and how they are applied

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MoMA legal fees in Schiele suit disclosed

The museum has spent over $250,000 contesting the attempted subpoena of two paintings

The Parthenon Marbles and cultural politics: What are we really all talking about?

At a major conference held on 30 November and 1 December 1999, British Museum, Greek and international scholars discussed the nature of any damage to the Marbles in the hushed-up cleaning of the 1930s. Mary Beard puts the discussions in context and tells how, ever since their acquisition in 1816 by Lord Elgin, the Marbles have aroused fierce debate. Why?

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MoMA exhibits millennial project as part of change in curatorial direction

In a heterodox view, the museum leaves behind its linear stylistic categorisations in favour of untidier, more subtle regroupings