Martin Bailey

Prehistoric Lion Man points towards earliest notions of religion in new British Museum show

Earliest surviving figurative sculpture, carved from mammoth tusk, is among 160 objects in Living with Gods

British Museum ends loan deal with Abu Dhabi

Construction delays to the Zayed National Museum are behind the move

V&A Dundee takes shape as £80m ship-like building is unveiled

Architect Kengo Kuma says he hopes the Scottish museum will become a “living room” for city’s residents

How Qatar sidestepped the UK export system again

V&A and National Trust hoped to buy Clive of India’s treasures

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Podcast episode five: what's the story behind the $100m Leonardo?

What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses

Leeds Art Gallery raises the roof for £4m revamp

New collection displays fill renovated building after two-year closure

Massive Van Gogh show opens in Italy

Exhibition including 124 works is largest in Europe and America in almost 30 years

Rodin’s love of the Parthenon sculptures revealed

The British Museum show will examine the French artist’s obsession with its most famous exhibits

Fewer big culture grants as UK Lottery sales slump

Heritage Lottery Fund warns of cutbacks to awards over £5m in next five-year plan

UK’s restitution powers to be extended indefinitely for Nazi-era loot

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

Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe coming to the Victoria & Albert Museum

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

‘We need to take into consideration the whole world, not only Europe’

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

Interview by Martin Bailey

British Museum plans sweeping redisplay of world cultures

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

Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit heading for closure

Detectives have been redeployed to work on Grenfell Tower investigation

Five of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to be reunited on Facebook

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

Former V&A director Martin Roth has died aged 62

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

Gold breastplate given to the Queen is unveiled at Buckingham Palace

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

Tate Impressionist blockbuster reunites six of Monet’s Houses of Parliament pictures

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

What the V&A’s director actually said about digitisation

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

Royal Academy of Arts to stage its greatest spectacle

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

Threatened Walsall gallery saved by Arts Council grant

New Art Gallery Walsall plans to form partnership with local university

Bulk of V&A’s £50m extension sponsored by four donors

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

Entire body of UK public sculpture to go online by 2020

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

Beyeler to reunite Giacometti and Bacon

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

The Getty gets £24.5m Parmigianino after no UK museum tries to match price

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

UK election upset leaves prime minister’s Brexit strategy in disarray

Remainers celebrate as Theresa May aims to lead minority government

UK election could trigger a cultural bonanza

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