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Tate to launch two new acquisitions committees

The Tate is establishing a new South Asian acquisitions committee to collect contemporary and modern art from India and surrounding countries, as well as a committee for works from Russia, Eastern... MORE

Published online: 12 October 2012

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Rothko painting defaced at Tate Modern

Police investigate attack on Seagram mural canvas

Published online: 07 October 2012

Azerbaijan to get contemporary art space—and maybe a biennial

Aida Mahmudova, the artist, patron and niece of the first lady, is hoping to build up the country’s fledgling art scene

Published online: 02 October 2012

Royal Armouries director-general suspended

Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley is replaced by Chris Walker, the Armouries’ finance director

Published online: 02 October 2012

Two huge state-run museums open in Shanghai

Expo 2010 buildings become China Art Palace and Power Station of Art

Published online: 01 October 2012

Retreat in Moscow

Proposal for a Russian national portrait gallery is killed off by museum celebrating Napoleon’s defeat

Published online: 26 September 2012

In The Frame

Tuymans's take on Queen Beatrix

When the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam finally opens this Sunday, a rather striking, understated painting of Queen Beatrix of the...

Bright idea

What would you want future generations to remember us by? When they dig up the time capsule, buried during today’s groundbreaking for the...

There's a buzz at Tate

Who knew that hundreds of thousands of bees can be found on the roofs of Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London? Twelve hives in total were...

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Virtual tour of new MoCA Cleveland

MoCA Cleveland opened to the public on Monday 8 October in its new $27.2m home designed by the London architect Farshid Moussavi. Take a virtual tour of the sleek building, clad in black stainless steel, in a video, created by the Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London, and originally posted by the museum.