What will they spend the insurance money on?
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
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.
Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy
Relaunch in October 2001 intended to bring back the public
Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators
Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses
Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern
Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?
13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen
It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control