New legislation will remove legal restrictions that prevent many museums from deaccessioning works

Show featuring Mexican artist’s distinctive clothing, hidden for 50 years, is among highlights of museum’s 2018 programme

The British Museum’s director has bold plans to redisplay galleries and move stored collections out of London

Artefacts from ancient civilisations will be united for first time and more space given to Oceania, the Americas and Africa

Detectives have been redeployed to work on Grenfell Tower investigation

Willem van Gogh, the great grandson of Theo, the artist’s brother, will also speak in the presentation

After heading museums in Britain and Germany, he became more politically engaged

Pre-Columbian treasure, presented by Panamanian president in 1953, could date from as early as AD700

UK entrepreneur Andrew Brownsword is lending a Sisley painting of the Thames

Contrary to media reports, Tristram Hunt says museum is "very passionate" about unlocking its collections online

Show in 2018 will celebrate 250 years of the world’s most prestigious open exhibition

Funding plan to 2022 shifts emphasis away from London towards regions

New Art Gallery Walsall plans to form partnership with local university

Exhibition Road project creates new courtyard, entrance hall and subterranean gallery

Art UK to digitise nation’s 170,000 publicly owned sculptures in three-year operation

Swiss museum to stage show on the artists, who first met in the early 1960s, in time for Art Basel in 2018

Export bar lifted on Italian Mannerist painting that has been in Britain for 250 years

Remainers celebrate as Theresa May aims to lead minority government

Both the major political parties make big promises about new money for the arts

Exhibition of French Impressionist will be joined in 2018 by shows on Thomas Cole, Ed Ruscha, Mantegna and Bellini

Former Manchester director will focus on “event-driven” culture, such as performance

September exhibition will feature antiquities that have never left St Petersburg before

The then cash-strapped institution considered selling the work in the 1970s

Buckingham Palace and Royal Academy shows reunite works for the first time in nearly four centuries

Loan to National Gallery sparks internal debate about upgrading display of Taddei Tondo on its return

Matt Hancock pours scorn on Labour’s £1bn culture pledge and promises a review of UK export regulations

Published ahead of the general election in June, the UK opposition party’s manifesto includes strong support for the arts

London institution's first director, Henry Cole, designed the landmark in 1868

Images were created using military-grade thermal camera to depict migrants’ journeys to escape war and persecution