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Looted Constable returned by Tate heads to auction at Christie’s

Heirs of Hungarian baron are selling Beaching a Boat, Brighton

Remains of Paul Gauguin’s father found off Antarctica

Clovis Gauguin died at the Chilean fort of Fuerte Bulnes after fleeing France with his children

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Remembering the ‘mud angels’

The Italian floods of 1966 prompted a strong—and lasting—international response

The hunt for Van Gogh’s bed

A new book reveals the journey of the artist’s famous furniture from Arles to a town near Arnhem in 1945

National Gallery director says $30m Matisse portrait 'not Nazi-looted art'

Heirs of Greta Moll are demanding London museum returns painting of their grandmother

Benin bronze, sold off by British Museum in 1950, returns to market

But the 16th-century plaque, which has been substantially restored, failed to find a buyer

Cultural impact of Brexit revealed in new report

Funding gap and future of EU nationals among creative industry’s key concerns

How the Townley Venus's thumb was knocked off at the British Museum

One of institution's most important sculptures, now restored, was damaged by external catering team setting up for corporate event

Burrell’s world tour struggles to get beyond Glasgow

Scottish museum hoped to raise £15m for renovation fund but international venues are proving hard to secure

London’s National Gallery close to buying £30m Pontormo portrait

Treasury agrees tax refund to help keep painting from going to America

British Museum dreams big with new show of American prints

Exhibition next year reflects on the impact of the US through works by artists such as Ed Ruscha and Robert Rauschenberg

Basrah Museum opens against the odds in Iraq

New museum is housed in a converted former palace of Saddam Hussein

Is this the very first readymade?

Three million years before Duchamp, an ape-like humanoid in Africa found a stone that is now going on display for the first time at the British Museum

Tate buys portrait by one of Britain's earliest female artists

Work by Joan Carlile was discovered in a country auction

Scottish government bets big on V&A franchise in Dundee

Costs double but funders keep faith with design museum

In pictures: Sir John Soane’s Museum unveils £7m restoration

Architect's former home now has more exhibition space and is integrated with adjacent buildings

Rijksmuseum to reveal ‘truly sensational discovery’ of Brazilian animal drawings by Frans Post

Dutch landscape artist's notes describe six-banded armadillo as "good to eat, tastes like a chicken”

V&A director Martin Roth to leave in the autumn

Under his leadership, the museum attracted a record number of visitors and was crowned Museum of the Year

London's National Gallery seeks Treasury’s help to buy £30m Italian Old Master

Fundraising is complicated after aristocratic seller paid inheritance tax on portrait by Pontormo

Cleaning of Chandos Portrait could confirm what Shakespeare looked like

The relic-like painting of the Bard, which hung in the Duke's Theatre in the 1660s, was the first work donated to London's National Portrait Gallery upon its founding

London mayor Sadiq Khan ditches Olympicopolis name, but presses ahead with East London cultural hub

Politician is determined to develop arts project on Olympic site in Stratford

National Trust acquires rare Isaac Oliver miniature for record £2.1m

Work depicting aristocrat as a young poet will remain on view at Powis Castle in Wales

Polynesian sculpture admired by Picasso and Henry Moore far older than previously thought

Carbon-dating reveals wooden figure of A’a carved on Rurutu 250 years before arrival of Captain Cook