NewsFundraising
After thwarted art sales, Baltimore Museum of Art marshalls funding to promote diversity and equity
Institution announces $1.46m in gifts to finance goals such as pay increases for hourly workers and extended visiting hours
NewsPerforma
Performa biennial hosts virtual telethon, evoking the work of George Orwell, Nam June Paik—and, of course, Jerry Lewis
The event has been produced in partnership with Pace gallery and will feature new and archival material
NewsDeaccessioning
Cranach, Courbet and Corot: a closer look at what the Brooklyn Museum is selling off
The institution is deaccessioning its only Cranach and 11 other works to finance care of its collection
NewsBeirut
Emergency fund launched in aid of Beirut's devastated art community
Belgian non-profit Mophradat says that 100% of the money raised will support individual artists and arts organisations
NewsArt education
San Francisco Art Institute says it is reinstating degree programmes
Decision follows the resolution of contract disputes with tenured faculty and an infusion of funds
NewsBlack Lives Matter
Where to buy works of art to support anti-racism causes
Artists and galleries have been raising money to help charities and funds in the wake of the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests
NewsMuseums & Heritage
What would you do to keep your museum afloat? The Garden Museum director is swimming 50 miles in the Atlantic Ocean
The swim from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly aims to raise £100,000 for the London museum, which is planning shows on Derek Jarman and Lucian Freud
NewsFundraising
Artist Katie Paterson raises money for domestic abuse victims at risk during coronavirus outbreak
For a charitable donation, the Scottish visual artist is selling 1,000 digital copies of one of her books based on the universe
Newscoronavirus
Institutions stand to lose millions as spring fundraisers are cancelled and postponed
Due to losses caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the American Alliance of Museum estimates that one-third of the now shut museums will not be able to reopen without financial assistance from the government
ArchiveArt exports
Will the V&A buy this £7 million roundel?
Export license could be extended until November
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Calder on sale for research fundraiser
Yellow Crinkly will support biological research at the American Mayo Clinic
ArchiveMay 2013
Starry night for Tate in New York: celebrity friends help museum fundraise in style
Sarah Jessica Parker and the mysterious Tate Americas Foundation raise money for Latin American acquisitions
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Green light for V&A to expand underground
Design includes a courtyard and new entrance
ArchiveTate Britain
Tate Britain to be transformed in £45m project aimed to protect the works and please the guests
Millions needed to stop leaks, control humidity and open up the rotunda of the Victorian building
ArchiveFebruary 2010
French institutions have lost their integrity by relying on private sponsors, leading fundraiser says
Longtime arts and heritage patron Olivier de Rohan denounces the increasing influence of external bodies on museums' creative decisions
ArchiveChurches
Vermont Church to sell Tiffany window for the homeless
Unless they find themselves subject to divine miracle
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A sets sights on rare hunting horn
£3.3m required for export-delayed object
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A proposes underground galleries
Exhibition space will occupy area originally designed for abandoned Spiral project
ArchiveTate Modern
Tate Modern extension snubbed by Lottery Fund
The request was rejected as a 'low priority', with concerns about 'deliverability'
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A to unveil new galleries next year
The museum has spent £120m on FuturePlan projects
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down
Leonard Lauder’s decision to leave the institution coincides with launch of $680m fundraising campaign
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A needs £1.1m to keep Baroque cabinet in the UK
It was reassembled and sold after part of it was discovered in a pizzeria
ArchiveModerna Museet
Government gives Stockholm museum $750,000 to buy art by women
Following gifts by private donors
ArchiveTate
Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
News from the US: Bush and Blair go under the (sledge) hammer, the Whitney suffers loan woes, and Rakowitz can't get a date
Tate’s US patrons applaud the destruction of cake effigies, while MoMA makes life difficult
ArchiveTate
Tate struggles to attract money for acquisitions
A year ago the gallery launched a campaign to raise £100 million. Since then, £50,000 has been pledged from donors
ArchiveFundraising
Will Reynolds’ Archers stay in the UK? A look at Tate's fundraising efforts and the effects of the Waverley Criteria
Tate needs over £2 million to buy the £3.2 million painting from an overseas buyer
ArchiveFundraising
National Audit Office Report: Decline in museum fundraising, while Tate outperforms other London museums
The breakdown of museum funding is now available
ArchiveNews
National Gallery reaches out to the underprivileged in bid to save Raphael from export
“The Madonna of the pinks” may have been painted for a nun in Perugia
ArchiveSeptember 2000
How top British museums woo US donors
The Royal Academy, Tate, British Museum and National Gallery are all raising money successfully in the States, where 600,000 households report income exceeding $5m
ArchiveTate Modern
Funding the Tate: A £134 million achievement
With £6 million a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort
ArchiveTate
How to raise £166 million for the Tate: “Money follows energy”
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?
ArchiveConservation & Preservation
A campaign is underway to raise funds for the conservation of Sir George Gilbert Scott’s metalwork masterpiece, the Hereford Screen
Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.
ArchiveDecember 1990
Time for a whip-round: Indiana Jones’s bull whip on sale to raise funds for Institute of Archaeology's new centre
The prop is is one of the star lots in Christie’s South Kensington's Film and Entertainment sale