Museums

Art marketarchive

First, target your audience: Marketing the Brooklyn Museum of Art

New director, Arnold Lehman, has raised the profile of America’s second largest museum in just one year by advertising

Nazi lootarchive

The Association of Art Museum Directors promises to search collections for Nazi loot

Critics pointed out that the AAMD has no enforcement provision for members who violate its guidelines, not even its own mediation process

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Tate Modern's first director is Lars Nittve

The Swede comes straight from heading Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Unexplained blocking of proposals for Giacometti Foundation by French art authorities could point to a manipulative strategy

Delays over approving Giacometti Foundation suggest deliberate obstruction, so the only option remaining will be to hand over the collection to the state

Interviewarchive

Moderna Museet's David Elliot on maintaining the institution's legacy as it moves into new premises

Amid the frenzy of Stockholm ‘98, the museum's new director takes art seriously

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Major gift of American art and cash to San Francisco MOMA

The donation will strengthen the museum’s holdings with major paintings by Americans such as Philip Guston, Leon Golub, Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning

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Ernst Beyeler’s museum opens

One of the world’s greatest collections of modern Impressionist and post-Impressionist art goes on view this month in a $37 million building by Renzo Piano

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Kimbell buys MoMA Monet

The work was chosen by Monet himself for his final retrospective in 1924

Knoedler donates photo archive to Frick

The contribution was in recognition of the Frick's role in hosting the gallery's anniversary show

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MoMA has chosen three finalists for its renovation project

Bernard Tschumi, Yoshio Taniguchi, and a team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre do Meuron are in the running

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Who gets to build MoMA’s expansion?

As disgruntled museum staff strike, America’s most famous museum of modern art is trawling world-wide for a new architect

San Diego Museum of Art refuses funding from tobacco giant Philip Morris due to controversy

The museum has been widely criticised by Californians for indirectly condoning the company's exploitation of addiction

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Contemporary art worth $5 million donated to MoMA

The gift was made by New York millionairess Elaine Dannheisser, who says her collection contains “a lot of tough art”

May 1996archive

Where does charity stop and commerce begin at US museums?

A legal review of the regulations governing non-profit institutions

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Chicago’s answer to MoMA: Museum of Contemporary Art opens next month

Chicagoans have raised $55 million for this major new museum

Tighter copyright legislation for EU nations?

Even the most hidebound museum or public institution has now woken up to new technologies

Lost artarchive

Museums in Magdeburg and Leipzig publish lists of their missing art

Two museums in search of their history end up at the door of the Pushkin Museum

What's happening in the world of information technology in the museum community

A three-day conference and exhibition in London with new projects on show

Internetarchive

How are Britain's leading museums exploiting new multimedia technology?

Pundits inform us that the new media age is now upon us. Will this transform the museum sector?

Interviewarchive

Interview with Richard Oldenburg on life after MoMA

Former head of Museum of Modern Art and now chairman of Sotheby’s America sees no conflict between museums and the trade

USAarchive

Exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will attempt to encompass the breadth of the classification 'American-made'

Five American museums pool their resources to present their continent from ancient pottery to Andy Warhol

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Glenn Lowry appointed Director of the MoMA

The announcement comes after more than a year and a half of searching for a new director

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The centrepiece of The Baltimore Museum of Art's new wing for post-war art is a Warhol wonderland

It is the biggest display of Andy Warhol’s paintings outside the museum in Pittsburgh

The mechanics of sponsorship: an interview with one of the UK's biggest exhibition sponsors

James Joll of the international media giant Pearson plc explains the who, what, why and quid pro quo of corporate involvement in the arts

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Taiwan round-up: Belgian Expressionists, Warhol and a new museum in Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts opens a year ahead of schedule