Museums
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
Six hundred works of uncertain provenance listed in report on UK museums
This will assist in the identification of looted artworks
London’s National Gallery withdraws from bidding on possible war loot
Metropolitan Monet subject to claim
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
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"
National Museum of Iraq recovers 5,000 Sumerian artefacts
Archaeologists descended upon three sites in Southern Iraq rumoured to contain antiquities
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
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?
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
Berlin’s museums are still suffering from the effects of World War II and forty years of Communism
British architect David Chipperfield has pacified both conservatives and progressives with his masterplan for the Museum Island which links the museums by underground tunnels
MoMA teams up with Reina Sofia for research and conservation
The two institutions already have a strong bond due to many shared exhibitions, and this partnership is set to expand
Museum of Epinal stakes claim to London dealer's Vuillards
"Nude in the studio" and "Bouquet of flowers" were commandeered by French court officials at the Maastricht fair
Russian cultural institutions suffer collateral damage from the war in the Balkans
The director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, outlines the possible implications for his museum of the NATO campaign
A room full of MoMA in St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum
This marks the first in a series of planned loans of modern and contemporary American works from MoMA to the Hermitage
Our choice of New York contemporary galleries
Industrial strength beer cans at Holly Solomon and post-industrial landscapes at Joseph Rickards
Dia Centre to open additional location in Beacon for oversized art
The museum is set to be completed by 2001
The new partnership between MoMA and P.S. 1 across the East River bridges gaps for both institutions
“I believe the future of this museum lies in the depth of its commitment to contemporary art,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry
Andy Warhol exhibition to open in Vienna
“Andy Warhol: A Factory”, Kunsthalle at Karlplatz, Vienna, 5 February-2 May
US company mergers may result in sponsorship shrinkage
Standing out from the crowd with art sponsorship becomes unnecessary, as more and more of America's biggest corporations unify
Tutu wars: Wardrobe malfunctions for Degas' "Little Dancer" as institutions search for the real deal
Research reassess the dingy mini-skirt usually seen on editions of the work. Does the answer lie in Nebraska?
Marion’s Medusas at the Warburg in London
Stancioff spent her life charting the use of the same visual symbols by vastly distant cultures
German season in London
Rosemarie Trockel, Andreas Gursky and Stephen Balkenhol all show new work
MoMA hands over four prized drawings to the Met and to the Art Institute of Chicago because they are no longer modern
The donation fulfils the 1948 bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
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
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
The end of World War II for Berlin’s paintings: The Bode and the Dahlem come together in harmony at the Gemäldegalerie
The State Paintings Collection has opened in Berlin’s Kulturforum