Museums & Heritage
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No go for the V&A Libeskind
At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world
Following thefts, Tate receives funds to repurchase works stolen in Frankfurt
Five years on and the museum has exceeded all expectations
Museums and collectors should hasten to protect their rights in this field
Archives telling the story of Strong’s first years as director of the London museum, released under the 30-year rule, reveal how money was raised for two of the finest 18th-century portraits in its collection
Rothschild retired as the first chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund at the end of March 1998. In a rare interview, he described its relationship with government
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