Museums

UK folk art to be celebrated at Tate Britain

Curators unearth unusual objects in museum storerooms

Published online: 18 June 2013

 
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‘Orphaned’ Cézanne watercolour surfaces in Ottawa

Pressure could mount to identify the owner of a work separated from French dealer’s collection

Published online: 17 June 2013

Artists in the Marketplace opens with sculpture show on Governor’s Island

Programme aims to teach artists practical skills, such as grant writing and how to find gallery representation

Published online: 17 June 2013

Royal Academy in talks with potential Moscow partner

The institution also wants to co-organise the arts programme of a planned centre in Hong Kong

Published online: 14 June 2013

National Gallery hires Sotheby’s specialist

Letizia Treves has left Sotheby’s to lead museum's curatorial department

Published online: 14 June 2013

The buildings, the collectors, the places of Switzerland

Six major collections within an hour of Basel

Published online: 14 June 2013

A final früstück?

After 11 years of putting the Kunsthaus Baselland on the art map, its director, Sabine Schaschl (above), is now off to lead Zürich’s Museum...

Hitting the beach

A whole new dimension to surfing the zeitgeist was offered during the Art Basel Conversation devoted to museums and austerity, when,...

A bug's love life

Birds do it, bees do it—and on 31 May, museum patrons can, too. To celebrate (Celebrate? Really?) cicadas, set to swarm across the east...

 

Rijksmuseum celebrates reopening with flashmob

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum reopens at long last after a ten-year renovation. To celebrate, the museum staged a flashmob in a local shopping mall, dramatically recreating one of the museum's most famous paintings, Rembrandt's The Night Watch.