The opening of new galleries and the division of the museum’s collection with Tate Modern have realised Sir Henry Tate’s vision of a national gallery for British art. Three rooms for Constable and one each for Hogarth and Blake

V&A in search of global partners

Feverish visions at Coles and Tsingou, Childcare at Timothy Taylor and White Cube and the Russians are coming to Vilma Gold

As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles

Museums must set the standard for collectors and dealers, says Manus Brinkman Secretary General of the International Council of Museums

An installation in disguise

What changes the election have wrought

First year of success for Tate Modern

Spring 2002 to see new Research Centre at Millbank

Yes, you can show decorative arts and be interesting

What will they spend the insurance money on?

MoMA “to continue alone”

Reflecting the continuous rise in the value of art and importance of provenance

Gilbert Scott’s massive Gothic Revival screen has been restored for £750,000 and goes on public view for the first time in over three decades

The director’s new scheme of quarterly changes will show more than just the work of local artists

Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou

A National Audit Office Report concludes that visitors are discouraged from visiting the institution because of its “highbrow” image

A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book

Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland

A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

Special viewings arranged for expected international collectors

The San Martino’s decorative arts and theatre collections are, at last, on show again, in new rooms

Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483

The panel finds Tate has legal title to a war-loot picture but agrees that the claimants should be compensated on ethical grounds

'I love the passion here'

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

Three year, £3.75 million project complete

All 19th-century European drawings and watercolours in the Tate’s collection will be loaned to the BM, with the possibility of transferring ownership entirely

Museum buys back title to the pictures and keeps part of the insurance money