Highlights of Thomas Kaplan's Leiden Collection go on show at the Louvre this week

As Tristram Hunt starts his new job at the V&A and Maria Balshaw joins the Tate in June, we look at some of the hurdles they will need to overcome

Ancient Assyrian site was almost completely demolished by extremists

Dutch artist may not have secluded himself in Delft as previously believed

National Gallery London's £30m offer to buy painting was rejected by US owner

A selection of the 14,000 works in the Government Art Collection will be on show

Experts believe that prints in the album show the artist, his mistress and a ship’s doctor

Brexit pound slump means that Tom Hill would have lost $10m, but he breaks commitment

The two works, which were taken from Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002, were recovered by anti-mafia police last year

This will be one of three exhibitions on Pissarro in Europe this year, providing unparalleled access to the artist's greatest works

Rubens House to put on show of 17th-century artist Michaelina Wautier

V&A and National Trust consider repeat of 2004 campaign to keep rare Mughal flask and huqqa in UK

The outgoing US ambassador Matthew Barzun stresses the importance of the art in a time of “destruction”

Inquest underway to determine whether discovery in Shropshire constitutes a "treasure"

Italian Modern art gallery reopens this week after £600,000 refurbishment

Curators hope to retrace the artist’s steps with paintings, drawings and copies of a lost journal

Japanomania returns once more to Copenhagen as the exhibition looks at how Nordic artists used Japanese art in their own work

Clandon Park, a country mansion in Surrey, was severely damaged by blaze in 2015

Malian cultural heritage at biggest risk in wake of Islamist rebel attacks

Writer was forced to sell his prized painting when he went bankrupt during gross indecency trial

Fears grow over fate of ancient Syrian site which suffered disastrous destruction during last occupation by extremists

Show will open at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in summer 2017, travel to London that autumn, then head to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

Organised with the Royal Collection, the 2018 exhibition should feature paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Titian and Mantegna owned by the ill-fated Stuart monarch

Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson

Attendance declines dramatically at York Art Gallery after admission fee is introduced

Amsterdam institution has released another statement condemning sketchbook attributed to Van Gogh