Martin Bailey

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

Monet to be star of London’s National Gallery next year

Exhibition of French Impressionist will be joined in 2018 by shows on Thomas Cole, Ed Ruscha, Mantegna and Bellini

Maria Balshaw starts as overall Tate director

Former Manchester director will focus on “event-driven” culture, such as performance

Rare loans from Hermitage Museum—including ancient lumps of cheese—to feature in British Museum's Scythian show

September exhibition will feature antiquities that have never left St Petersburg before

How the Royal Academy came close to selling its greatest treasure: Michelangelo's Taddei Tondo

The then cash-strapped institution considered selling the work in the 1970s

Prince Charles to support exhibitions about his two art-collecting predecessors

Buckingham Palace and Royal Academy shows reunite works for the first time in nearly four centuries

Will the Royal Academy give Michelangelo's masterpiece the setting it deserves?

Loan to National Gallery sparks internal debate about upgrading display of Taddei Tondo on its return

Conservatives will deliver 'best Brexit deal for the arts', says digital minister

Matt Hancock pours scorn on Labour’s £1bn culture pledge and promises a review of UK export regulations

Labour Party promises £1bn extra in culture funding over five years

Published ahead of the general election in June, the UK opposition party’s manifesto includes strong support for the arts

What might have been: the Victoria and Albert Museum's never-built tower

London institution's first director, Henry Cole, designed the landmark in 1868

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Richard Mosse wins Prix Pictet award

Images were created using military-grade thermal camera to depict migrants’ journeys to escape war and persecution

Museums show limited interest in borrowing Parthenon Marbles

British Museum’s vision of the ancient sculptures travelling to China and Africa has so far come to nothing

Tate Modern's extension renamed Blavatnik Building after record £50m donation

Ukrainian-born American businessman Len Blavatnik's gift is the largest-ever financial contribution to a UK museum

Students leave pencil marks on ancient sculptures at the British Museum

The increase in graffiti cases over the past decade raises concerns about monitoring and protection of the collection

Hokusai’s late style comes into view at the British Museum

Looking beyond his iconic Great Wave at treasures from the museum's collection and from around the globe

Can visitor numbers bounce back after Brexit?

Latest figures show minimal boost from weak pound and negative impact of terrorism in Europe

Hermitage to loan Scythian treasures for British Museum show

London show will explore one of the great nomadic civilisations of antiquity

London's National Gallery goes for Bellotto after failing to buy Pontormo

Institution is now trying to raise £11m to buy an export-deferred work by the Italian painter

National Gallery expansion plan ‘starting to take shape’

Office block next door is potential site, says director Gabriele Finaldi

Michelangelo-designed frame reimagined by National Gallery

A mix of old and new elements gives greater depth to Sebastiano del Piombo’s The Raising of Lazarus

European cobalt blue imported to China from early 18th century

Scientific tests reveal Qing-dynasty artisans used it to produce famille rose porcelain

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