Martin Bailey

Tate St Ives offers first glimpse of £20m refurbishment

The Tate’s Cornish satellite, which reopens this week, is preparing its first semi-permanent display on the St Ives School

Emergency repair work to Buckingham Palace’s State Dining Room nears completion

Reopening set for summer but complete overhaul of palace costing £369m will take a decade

Experts restore rare Dutch Golden Age map found stuffed up a chimney

The 17th-century map, which was discovered scrunched up in a ball, is on show at the National Library of Scotland

Man charged with vandalising painting by Gainsborough at National Gallery

Conservators assess damage to paint surface as suspect due to appear in London court

The search for Franz Marc’s iconic blue horses

A celebrated painting that was denounced as degenerate by the Nazis may have survived the aftermath of war

Iraqi troops in push to recapture old city of Mosul

Heritage bodies face major task in saving historic buildings when Isil extremists are ousted

Erotic bookcase by Carabin goes on show outside Paris for first time

Rare piece of furniture features in show on French Belle Époque prints at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum

Declassified papers reveal Margaret Thatcher’s spirited campaign to get the Thyssen collection

But the British prime minister was thwarted by the baron’s Spanish wife and her sick dog, so the works ended up in Madrid

Sale of Pontormo portrait prompts calls for reform of UK export system

New York hedge-fund manager is the latest foreign buyer to refuse a matching offer from a UK museum

The New York entrepreneur behind the biggest private Rembrandt collection

Highlights of Thomas Kaplan's Leiden Collection go on show at the Louvre this week

The biggest challenges facing London’s new museum directors

As Tristram Hunt starts his new job at the V&A and Maria Balshaw joins the Tate in June, we look at some of the hurdles they will need to overcome

British Museum-trained Iraqi archaeologist assesses Isil destruction of Nimrud

Ancient Assyrian site was almost completely demolished by extremists

Louvre exhibition debunks 'isolated genius' myth of Vermeer

Dutch artist may not have secluded himself in Delft as previously believed

UK export licence denied for Pontormo portrait

National Gallery London's £30m offer to buy painting was rejected by US owner

UK government plans gallery for its off-duty art

A selection of the 14,000 works in the Government Art Collection will be on show

Images of Gauguin in Tahiti discovered in photo album

Experts believe that prints in the album show the artist, his mistress and a ship’s doctor

US hedge funder rejects National Gallery's £30m offer to buy Pontormo portrait

Brexit pound slump means that Tom Hill would have lost $10m, but he breaks commitment

Stolen Van Gogh paintings to go on show in Naples

The two works, which were taken from Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002, were recovered by anti-mafia police last year

New retrospective in Paris for Pissarro, the first of the Impressionists

This will be one of three exhibitions on Pissarro in Europe this year, providing unparalleled access to the artist's greatest works

Female painter of the Flemish Baroque back in vogue—four centuries on

Rubens House to put on show of 17th-century artist Michaelina Wautier

Why Clive of India’s treasures are up for export to Qatar again

V&A and National Trust consider repeat of 2004 campaign to keep rare Mughal flask and huqqa in UK

American embassy hosts Syrian painting show in London

The outgoing US ambassador Matthew Barzun stresses the importance of the art in a time of “destruction”

'Substantial' gold hoard found hidden in piano

Inquest underway to determine whether discovery in Shropshire constitutes a "treasure"

Estorick Collection gets a new look

Italian Modern art gallery reopens this week after £600,000 refurbishment

Dürer’s creative year in the Low Countries inspires exhibition

Curators hope to retrace the artist’s steps with paintings, drawings and copies of a lost journal