Since the closure of a basement gallery in 2006 there is little room to store the whole collection

As the Tate Britain show opens, we reveal the inside story of the Tate’s failure to acquire 19 watercolours from a portfolio that turned up in a Glasgow bookshop

All the evidence suggests it was the artist who fired the fatal shot

Treasury says there will be “over £300m to support the UK’s world-class national museums and galleries” in 2020-21

Artist's famous nude performance—first done with Ulay—to be recreated in her retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts next year

We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate

The Finding of Moses, currently on loan at the London museum, is owned by sofa-billionaire Graham Kirkham

X-rays showing artist's original composition reveal that angel and Infant Christ were positioned higher up

Most were scientific materials, but 69,000 went to cultural venues

The 16th-century Virgin and Child with Saints is now back on show

Part of the Wellington Collection in London, the picture was originally believed to be by a minor north Italian artist

Prime minister takes the unusual step of pledging $200,000 to the US museum

Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is among 58 works going on a Japanese tour this autumn

From his mother to his partners, the UK's new prime minister has been surrounded by people in the arts

Cabinet of curiosities cannot go to US because of tough ivory regulations

The show, which borrows works from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, travels from San Francisco’s De Young Museum where it closed in June

Major exhibition at the Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands will show latest research in the confusing identity saga as Amsterdam museum renames work

While Boris Johnson describes himself as a keen painter and Jeremy Hunt spent time as culture minister, the sector is likely to remain far down the agenda

The astonishing tale of Jan Traas, a caretaker and intern conservator in the 1920s, who later worked on Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring

The Van Gogh Museum’s masterpiece has suffered from a 1960s restoration which involved the insertion of three long metal bolts

The discovery of the revolver suggests it was suicide, not murder

The Trojan antiquities went to Berlin after the London museum rejected an offer to acquire them

By coincidence, both pictures ended up at New York’s MoMA, which is now planning a redisplay

Gary Hume says funding for the arts is 'outweighed by the need to act urgently on the climate crisis'

Little known letter says he feared “a fatal and tragic accident” in the Yellow House

There will be a rash of shows on the Renaissance master, the largest will be in Rome

Follow in the artist’s footsteps and discover the places that inspired his greatest paintings