President of France inaugurates huge new ethnological museum

The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites

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

The Van Gogh fakes controversy continues

Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth gets twenty-six works from the blue-chip Staechelin collection on a three-year loan

The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed

Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead

One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland

A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis

The curators are reluctant, but a move seems unavoidable

But Victoria and Albert Museum’s £23m British Galleries project sent back to the drawing board

Tradition meets trendiness in this huge exhibition of British fashion

600,000 visitors a year and £3.8 million from the National Lottery

200 outfits to enter the collection

The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it

Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays

Seven hundred year-old painting was dismissed as nineteenth-century

Please touch, learn—and enjoy

Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture

The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton

Andrew Fabricant will shortly be opening an office in New York

Income from tickets represented about double the average weekly level of voluntary contributions.

Refurbishment has cost £2 million

The Becket casket and Guercino are just two works of art saved for Britain with money from a Hong Kong lawyer

Wonnacott's portrait of John Major is on view at Agnew's

The successes and (rare) failures of a passionate collector

First modern art collection for the National Trust

Financial problems for decorative arts museum launched last November

From rinceaux to Reeboks