This new curatorial direction suggests museum just a plaything for the staff

Stephen Deuchar, director of the Tate Britain, talks about the new thematic displays and future major survey shows of New British art, Blake and Spencer

His support of modern art was characterised by a missionary zeal

The first stage of splitting the Tate Gallery into a museum of British art and a museum of international modern art takes place this month

Constables go to Tate and eighteenth-century works to V&A

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

We asked leading figures in the art world whether the Tate should divide into the British Collections and a museum of international modern art: all but one were in favour

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