NewsMuseums & Heritage
Wanted: £48k curator to shake up British Museum's permanent displays and ‘give greater prominence to Africa’
London institution is advertising two new job roles to help deliver a radical curatorial initiative known as 'Reimagining the British Museum'
NewsVenice Biennale
Wanted—curator of the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale (who will work for £12,500)
Collector Shane Akeroyd sponsors post for ten-year period
NewsBiennials & festivals
How to organise a biennial in the Covid era
Bangkok Art Biennale director on grappling with coronavirus constraints and displaying "sensitive" works
NewsExhibitions
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer turns curator for Dusseldorf museum
Exhibition will recall the “intense and wonderful” 1990s fashion scene with photographs by Juergen Teller, Corinne Day and Karl Lagerfeld
NewsDigital Age
DIY curating: UK galleries mount virtual shows on lockdown using new digital tool
Art UK's Curations initiative enables “anyone anywhere with internet access” to create an exhibition using the national image database
FeatureMuseums & Heritage
The show must go on: what American curators are up to in isolation
How have curators been filling their time while their museums remain closed? Creatively, it turns out
FeatureExhibitions
How museums are stepping up exhibition design
A wave of innovative exhibition design has graced our museums in recent years. What are the keys to holding the viewer’s gaze?
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Come on in, make yourself at home at the V&A
Elmgreen & Dragset install a house at the Victoria and Albert Museum
ArchiveTate Britain
Praise for Tate Britain rehang
The move from a thematic hang to a chronological one has been celebrated by critics
ArchiveBooks
Books: How Warburg helped to invent the exhibition—and the curator
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
ArchiveNational Gallery
The big hole in Britain’s National Gallery: Bring back the Victorians
The omission of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood could be rectified by judicious loans
ArchiveTate Britain
Tate Britain opts for chronological hang with refurbishment project progressing
The galleries are set to reopen in May after funding goals were reached
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Elmgreen & Dragset on staging their newest work: “Actors are playing us, but we might interfere”
The artists on splitting up but staying together and why they are putting their lives on stage
ArchiveOpinion
Saving the ephemeral art gallery: The director of Tate Liverpool on preserving institutional history
'History is unpredictable, and we cannot know which obscure artist or minor exhibition may once be regarded as a groundbreaking historical event'
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
No, not Madonna the singer in the V&A's new Medieval and Renaissance galleries
How the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries have dealt with our ignorance of Christianity
ArchiveExhibitions
New Museum show of trustee's collection is an insult to scholarship and curators
Private-collector museums
ArchiveArt market
The Art Newspaper discusses the fine line between curating and promoting
It is almost impossible for a museum to mount a contemporary exhibition without the involvement of the artist's dealer
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Director of German contemporary art museum explores his “Carte Blanche” approach to private collectors
“What is often described as the ‘undue’ influence of collectors and dealers is less of a threat than the noticeable tendency for these parties to lose interest in public institutions”
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
German museum under fire for ceding control of exhibitions to dealers and collectors
Gallery director says private sector must be courted, not alienated
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A opens its £5.4m Islamic gallery
The new display is entirely funded by the Jameel family of Saudi Arabia
ArchiveTate Modern
New acquisitions go on view at Tate
Tate Modern's first rehang includes Marlene Dumas
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA reveals restock of its contemporary galleries in yearly rehang
Around 50 new works are on view, including 16 examples never before seen at the museum
ArchiveArt Basel
New strategy for Art Basel includes the selection of thematically linked works by dealers
Curation will be promoted over serendipitous choices by Art Cabinet, a scheme debuting at Art Basel/Miami Beach
ArchiveExhibitions
Formal situations: Abstraction in Britain 1960-70
Tate Liverpool
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
The brilliantly intelligent, new British Galleries should succeed in putting decorative arts and the museum itself back on the map
If architecture is the mother of the arts then this is the whole family
ArchiveProvenance research
"The AAM guide to provenance research" by Nancy Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha and Amy Walsh
A guide on how to best investigate provenance with specific emphasis on the specialist problems of the Holocaust-era, solvable using provenance research
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with museum director and curator Udo Kittelman: “The curator should never be more important than the artist”
The new director of Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art is self taught (he trained as an optician), curator of the German pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, and passionately involved in contemporary art
ArchiveColonial art
Okwui Enwezor's curation examines the effects of post-colonialism on Africa’s artistic output
“The short century: liberation and independence in Africa 1945-94”, creates a “critical biography of Africa”
ArchiveDigital art
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
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Letters: V&A was not intended to be purely decorative
If there is a museum anywhere in the world which can claim to be the first embodiment of this inclusive, antisegregationist approach, it is the V&A.
ArchiveTate Modern
Questionable curatorial decisions favour words over image in Tate Modern's new hang
Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?
ArchiveMay 2000
Curator interview: Tate Modern's thematic hang
An exclusive interview with The Art Newspaper about the closely guarded secret: the thinking behind how the Tate Modern has arranged its art
ArchiveTate
Adam Throup on the branding of the Tate
Part of the design team at Wolff Olins, he sums up the Tate's branding redesign
ArchiveTate Britain
Giles Waterfield finds the new mixed hang at Tate Britain unhelpful and bullying
This new curatorial direction suggests museum just a plaything for the staff
ArchiveExhibitions
Interview with Jeff Rosenheim and Maria Morris Hambourg on Walker Evans: At the roots of Warhol
The upcoming Met exhibition presents the whole career of the photographer famous for his images of the Depression
ArchiveMuseums
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
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A Director Alan Borg says, “The idea of keeping museums separate from the trade needs to disappear, particularly for the contemporary world”
V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
In my opinion. V&A Libeskind too “metaphorical”
A former keeper offers some practical suggestions
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Europe’s top photography collection now has a permanent gallery. From the dawn of photography to now
At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world
ArchiveTate
A Tate for the 21st century: decisions to be made about the collection remaining at Millbank Tate
With modern foreign art to be displayed at Bankside, opinion within the Tate differs as to how the story of British art should be told
ArchiveExhibitions
Helen Sears’ retrospective at Zelda Cheatle Gallery
Reconstructing the environment
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Exemplary £2 million refurbishment of the silver galleries at the V&A opens this month
Please touch, learn—and enjoy
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Peanuts this ain’t: the V&A's Raphael Court to reopen
Refurbishment has cost £2 million
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
The V&A opens first gallery devoted to the history and meaning of ornament
From rinceaux to Reeboks
ArchiveInterviews
An interview with Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“It is impossible to say in advance when photography is an art and when it is not”
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
£25 million needed for complete refurbishment of the fifteen British Galleries at the V&A, now in a sadly shabby state
V&A tackles Britain head-on
ArchiveTate
This year's 'New Displays' reveals fresh themes at Tate
A broadly chronological approach with thematic rooms addresses Surrealism, emotion, and history painting
ArchiveExhibitions
Byzantine exhibition at the British Museum provides new insights but falls flat due to missed opportunities
Have scruples over not asking collector/dealers for loans, particularly for underrepresented painted icons, affected the quality of the current exhibition?
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Things are looking up at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Superb new glass gallery opens 20 April
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
New gallery showcasing 20th-century design opens at the V&A
Spanning the history of consumer design from 1900 to 1992, it aims to explore design ideas, techniques and materials as well as individual pieces and mass-produced objects.
ArchiveTate
Should the Tate Gallery split?
We asked leading figures in the art world whether the Tate should divide into the British Collections and a museum of international modern art: all but one were in favour
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
A gallery with a new vision of Chinese art opens at the V&A this month
Daring to say “This is rare and beautiful” in new V&A Chinese gallery
ArchiveExhibitions
As part of the current re-evaluation of Surrealism, an exhibition looks at André Breton’s works as well as the furnishing of his mind
André Breton: artist, writer, collector, at the Beaubourg
ArchiveTate
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
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
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
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Jacques Derrida: The Philosopher sees (or doesn’t see)
Discussing “Memories of a blind man – the self-portrait and other ruins” and his choice of drawings for the exhibition in the Hall Napoleon of the Louvre, from 26 October until 21 January 1991