A guide on how to best investigate provenance with specific emphasis on the specialist problems of the Holocaust-era, solvable using provenance research

“The short century: liberation and independence in Africa 1945-94”, creates a “critical biography of Africa”

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

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.

Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?

This new curatorial direction suggests museum just a plaything for the staff

Part of the design team at Wolff Olins, he sums up the Tate's branding redesign

The upcoming Met exhibition presents the whole career of the photographer famous for his images of the Depression

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

V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce

A former keeper offers some practical suggestions

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world

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

Reconstructing the environment

Please touch, learn—and enjoy

Refurbishment has cost £2 million

From rinceaux to Reeboks

“It is impossible to say in advance when photography is an art and when it is not”

V&A tackles Britain head-on

A broadly chronological approach with thematic rooms addresses Surrealism, emotion, and history painting

Have scruples over not asking collector/dealers for loans, particularly for underrepresented painted icons, affected the quality of the current exhibition?

Superb new glass gallery opens 20 April

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.

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

Daring to say “This is rare and beautiful” in new V&A Chinese gallery

André Breton: artist, writer, collector, at the Beaubourg

It’s all change at the Tate Gallery, as part of Nick Serota’s policy of rotating the collections

Care of Ham House and Osterley Park to be taken over by the National Trust

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