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
Francois I’s Book of Hours has left Britain as Louvre starts to raise £8m to buy it
Renaissance manuscript with gold binding is being sold by London jeweller
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
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
V&A director calls for Exhibition Road to be fully pedestrianised after 11 injured in accident
Tristram Hunt had already voiced concerns before Saturday’s incident
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
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
Arts Council England unveils first major grant programme since Nicholas Serota took over as chairman
Funding plan to 2022 shifts emphasis away from London towards regions
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





























