Museums

Museums: the cure for a crowded house?

Will the shrinking size of US apartments drive more people to visit museums? “If you aren’t hanging out with friends at home, you need somewhere else to go,” said Elizabeth Merritt, the founding... MORE

Published online: 23 May 2013

 
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Tate purchases Constable for £23.1m

Heritage Lottery Fund gives £15.8m, the largest amount of money for a single work in its history, to secure painting for the nation

Published online: 23 May 2013

Caligula reunited with his barges

Restored statue, broken by tomb robbers, to go on display at Roman ship museum

Published online: 23 May 2013

M+ gets a Tino Sehgal

Thirteen collectors and artists donate 280 works to the museum

Published online: 22 May 2013

Build first and find the art to fill them later

China’s public museums have grown by 1,000%—leaving their collections and staff development lagging behind

Published online: 22 May 2013

European paintings get (back) the space they deserve

The Met’s Old Masters galleries reopen in rooms lost in the 1970s when the era of the blockbuster began

Published online: 16 May 2013

Stormin Norman

One of the art world's most distinguished and colourful characters has been caught on canvas. The Spanish artist Daniel Quintero has...

A truth too far for the Met

The Metropolitan may be hosting a major show on punk, but the museum appears to have little time for the woman who helped to dress the...

Out of the ashes

After the disastrous fire at the Cuming Museum, in south London, in March, there had to be a hurried change to the programme. “Baptized by...

Rijksmuseum celebrates reopening with flashmob

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum reopens at long last after a ten-year renovation. To celebrate, the museum staged a flashmob in a local shopping mall, dramatically recreating one of the museum's most famous paintings, Rembrandt's The Night Watch.