Museum acquisitions
Acquisitions negotiations at Tate and The Armouries: You win some, you lose some
A mysterious donor gives the Tate £12.5 million to buy Reynolds’ Omai but the Armouries fail to get Lottery support for two armours
Newly-discovered Blake watercolours go for £10 million - but not to the Tate
An export licence deferral is now expected as the set of 19 watercolours sold to a Glasgow bookshop for a pittance in 2000 were sold to an overseas collector out from under the Tate
National Trust acquires £5.7 million worth of art for Nostell Priory
Objects sold by former owner
National Gallery and Getty fight over Raphael
The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million
Beyond the Glass Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum
100 new contemporary objects on display
Funding the Tate: A £134 million achievement
With £6m a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort
David Smith's 'Wagon II' bound for the Tate
Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands
Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
With the Castle Howard Guercino, Timothy Clifford has saved from export one more in a long line of masterpieces. Is he the last of Britain’s great acquirers?
The successes and (rare) failures of a passionate collector
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”
Contemporary from the Froehlich Foundation and sculptures from the friends to swell ranks at Tate
Austrian industrialist Joseph Froehlich is loaning major works of German and American art to the museum while Friends of the Tate contribute several new gifts
Victoria and Albert loses out on William Morris collection
Berger collection to go to Huntington after two-year silence from the London museum
Letters: V&A has 6,000 pieces of glass to install
Installation of new glass gallery postponed for a year
Major gift of works by Calder to Chicago’s contemporary museum
This ups the museums holdings of the artist to 22
Nick Serota on his second Tate rehang and his vision for what will be “one of the great museums of late twentieth-century art”
Defending his acquisitions and looking to the future, Serita talks on exhibitions and an international outlook
East Berlin museums chief defends his record, revealing how the East German museums sold in order to buy'
We did not pursue any party political nonsense on the Museum Island': Professor Günther Schade stands by his position