Martin Bailey
France and Britain prepare for battle over Joan of Arc’s ring
Jewel sold in UK for £300,000 last month has left the country—but did it have an export licence?
British Museum nearly cancelled 1980 Olympics exhibition
Director and trustees worried that show would anger Thatcher government after Britain officially boycotted Moscow Games
Van Gogh’s sunflowers may be restored to their original bloom
Star attraction of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has suffered from pigment deterioration and addition of later varnish
Portland Collection opens to public for first time with rarely seen Michelangelo drawing
Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire will house one of the finest aristocratic collections in England
Egyptian ambassador proposes plan to share Sekhemka
Embassy offers to take ownership of the sculpture and lend it to British Museum and Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Gabriele Finaldi says why London's National Gallery can’t just stop at 1900
Interview with the National Gallery's new director, who wants to "ramp up" the exhibition programme and rewrite deal between it and the Tate
Criminal gang convicted of stealing antiquities and rhino horn from UK museums
The international burglary ring targeted objects for a growing Chinese black market
Georgia O’Keeffe blockbuster show to open newly expanded Tate Modern this summer
Key loans include the most expensive work by a female artist ever sold at auction
Prado responds to Bosch downgrades by cancelling Dutch loans
Madrid museum still allows The Haywain to be centrepiece of blockbuster show in artist’s home town
All of UK’s publicly owned art to go online
Sculptures and works on paper to be added to database of oil paintings
Chelmsford Museum gold coin theft linked to national security alert
Museums across UK were warned about gang making “reconnaissance visits”
Francis Bacon’s first and last paintings to go on show in Monaco
Study of a Bull, from a "very private collection", has never been exhibited before
US academic takes the helm of London’s Soane museum
Bruce Boucher taught at UCL for 24 years before becoming director of Fralin Museum in Virginia
Prado pulls two works from landmark Bosch exhibition
Dutch doubts over attribution led to tough action against retrospective in the artist's birthplace
France and Netherlands finalise €160m 'Rembrandt Treaty'
Louvre and Rijksmuseum acquire portraits of husband and wife with a little help from Christie's<br>
The bee’s knees: UK’s Expo pavilion to come to Kew Gardens
Wolfgang Buttress’s installation on the honey-makers was on show in Milan
Kansas City museum's painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch
Temptation of St Anthony in the Nelson-Atkins Museum was believed to be by a pupil of the great Dutch artist
More foreigners than Brits to visit UK’s top museums
Boost for tourism as rising numbers of visitors flock to London and beyond
First church found on slave-trade island
Portuguese structure in Cabo Verde is oldest European building in the tropics
Tate director backs Art Fund’s call for UK export licence reform after Rembrandt fiasco
Charity will halt public campaigns to save art after another buyer withdraws export application
From goddesses to bulls: Sicily comes to the British Museum
Show opening in April will include major loans from Italian island’s museums
Painting by Rembrandt’s favourite pupil given UK export bar
Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy
Museum of London looks for architect for Smithfield project
Plans are in motion to move the collection from the Barbican to the Victorian market
Isil extremists destroy Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery
The destruction, which went unreported for 16 months, raises fears that other sites have been attacked
National Trust to restore fire-devastated Clandon Park
Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed
Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director
Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension