National Slide Library transfer to Leicester to proceed in spite of protests

After twenty years in boxes a friend of the patron’s family funds its display

An eclectic selection of memento mori

Grab and smash operation on 11 November

The proposal is greeted by suspicion and political posturing within the Italian art and archaeology world and even the Ministry of Culture.

Family bequeath home with $46.25 million (£26.4 million) for upkeep

Nick Serota launches into a new policy towards international contemporary art

They have already dug out several dozen armoured cars, field-guns, transporters and other vehicles

Large, unpublished collections now available

Defending his acquisitions and looking to the future, Serita talks on exhibitions and an international outlook

Restoration largest ever attempted by the National Trust

A space for over 600 decorative arts objects

That is: Barbara Kruger, Helen and Newton Harrison, and George Ohr

It’s all change at the Tate Gallery, as part of Nick Serota’s policy of rotating the collections

Care of Ham House and Osterley Park to be taken over by the National Trust

Collector Lionel Fournier talks about Asian art he will leave the museum

Gottfried Matthaes explains that his family fakes gave him the idea

It would be the first to be run as a plc, with works of art as its capital base and private collectors as its shareholders

Vast collections emerge: archaeology, ethnographic and waxworks.