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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
Statens Museum for Kunst assesses how Northern Europeans interpreted Japan
Japanomania returns once more to Copenhagen as the exhibition looks at how Nordic artists used Japanese art in their own work
Owner of Zoffany painting destroyed in fire could receive £4m from UK government
Clandon Park, a country mansion in Surrey, was severely damaged by blaze in 2015
Icom issues Red List to counter trade in looted West African antiquities
Malian cultural heritage at biggest risk in wake of Islamist rebel attacks
Portrait of Oscar Wilde to return to UK for first time in nearly a century
Writer was forced to sell his prized painting when he went bankrupt during gross indecency trial
'A black nightmare': Palmyra attacked by Isil militants
Fears grow over fate of ancient Syrian site which suffered disastrous destruction during last occupation by extremists
London's National Portrait Gallery to host first major exhibition of Cézanne's portraits
Show will open at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in summer 2017, travel to London that autumn, then head to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Royal Academy to reassemble Charles I’s art for blockbuster anniversary show
Organised with the Royal Collection, the 2018 exhibition should feature paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Titian and Mantegna owned by the ill-fated Stuart monarch
Remains of Gauguin’s father found near Tierra del Fuego
Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson
Does charging help or hurt regional museums?
Attendance declines dramatically at York Art Gallery after admission fee is introduced
Van Gogh Museum criticises experts for 'easygoing attitude' towards authentication
Amsterdam institution has released another statement condemning sketchbook attributed to Van Gogh
London version of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe predates the bigger picture in Paris
Research supports theory that Courtauld’s painting is preparatory sketch for version in the Musée d'Orsay
National Gallery's acquisition of Pontormo portrait under threat
London institution raised more than £30m to buy it, but fall in pound’s value may be presenting a new obstacle
Van Gogh Museum rejects artist's 'lost sketchbook'
Experts at odds over attribution to painter of 65 drawings to be published in new book
Ancient Nimrud ziggurat bulldozed by Isil
Islamic extremists razed massive 2,900-year-old Assyrian structure to the ground