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

Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern

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

Aristocrat Toshio Hara is admired by museum directors, such as Nick Serota of the Tate, for his contemporary art museum

The question of whether society gets the art it deserves, or merely what it is prepared to tolerate

We speak to galleries and artists that have responded to this Tate factor

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Leaving an after-Tate

Van Dyke painting withdrawn from sale at Christie's.

The Art Newspaper has uncovered a forgotten episode in which the young Serota clashed with the trustees of the Tate over the Young Friends’ exhibitions

Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures

Part of the design team at Wolff Olins, he sums up the Tate's branding redesign

With £6m a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort

Andrew Mummery powers up in a new gallery, Victoria Miro provides a sneak preview of her new space , and a Volkswagen van invades a front room in Camberwell

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

Unevenness comes to light, as survey finds that almost 50% of the UK total was directed towards London

An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection

The most comprehensive exhibition of Sargent ever mounted shows his bravura painting at its best, and is full of surprises

Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall

Two scholarly exercises in assessing the roles of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

The museum’s low-profile fundraising has achieved the biggest capital sum ever for a UK museum, but who is to pay for the running costs?

Twenty US works are to be shown at Millbank for its inauguration in March 2001

An important test case for museums dealing with war loss cases.

The Columbian artist makes stark sculptures which probe the solitude of death

J.G. Ballard, author of The Empire of the Sun, chooses seven images and explains his passion for Surrealism and the importance that Pop Art, Francis Bacon and photography have had for him

Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands

Unrecovered paintings stolen in Frankfurt, 1994.

Exhibition in London until 6 June.

Histories and anecdotes of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum