Martin Bailey

Corbyn calls for end to arts cuts

Newly elected left-wing leader of Labour Party promises increased funding for the arts and backs National Gallery strikers

Tate Modern to unveil new extension in June 2016

Fundraising challenges and complexity of building design delayed completion by four years

Restitution claim for Bristol Museum’s Renoir rejected

Painting’s sale was forced but not by Nazis, report concludes

British Museum signs deal to send touring shows to Spain

A €2m partnership with foundation of savings bank includes exhibitions on ancient Greece and Egypt

Nefertiti tomb theory greeted with scepticism

Zahi Hawass questions claim that queen was buried near Tutankhamun

Why Churchill missed the cut in Thatcher’s No. 10 rehang

Archives reveal the Iron Lady’s decisive views on the portraits of Great Britons that she wanted for Downing Street

National Gallery’s new management instantly embroiled in strike crisis

Finaldi and Rothschild take over as outsourcing deal for warding services triggers indefinite walkout

‘Very little evidence’ that Nefertiti is buried near Tutankhamun

Egypt’s leading archaeologist Zahi Hawass throws cold water on the recent theory that a hidden door in the boy king’s tomb could lead to the queen’s long-lost burial chamber

Is a UK buyer matching the price of Northampton’s Sekhemka statue?

In an unprecedented move, the department for culture has extended initial deferral deadline for Egyptian sculpture's export license

Yorkshire celebrates Caro with double-venue retrospective

Exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth Wakefield opens this weekend

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British Museum could send loans worth £1bn to the Gulf

Finest Assyrian relief from Nimrud among objects being valued for possible display in Abu Dhabi museum

Churches targeted in organised crime wave

Recovered artefacts include paintings, stained glass and carvings

Lottery fund is a success, but grants are much harder to get

Report praises most of the first 100 projects to be completed, but the days of enormous largesse are gone

Russborough House pulls Old Masters from Christie’s auction

Opposition from heritage groups changes the embattled foundation’s plans

Christie’s sale of Russborough paintings postponed

Alfred Beit Foundation calls halt on auction of Old Masters after "proposal from private Irish donors"

Irish arts minister calls for halt of Christie’s Old Masters sale

Works by Rubens and Guardi are due to be auctioned in July to pay for upkeep of country home

UK to ratify Hague Convention—'at the first opportunity'

Commitment to protect cultural property during periods of armed conflict comes after destruction of antiquities in Syria and Iraq by Islamic State

Gauguin painting’s $300m price tag may have been confirmed

Museo Reina Sofia acknowledges eye-watering figure in press statement

Klimt portrait to be auctioned

Proceeds will be shared between the Klimt Foundation and the heirs of the sitter

Updated emergency ‘Red List’ of Iraq antiquities at risk released

New publication includes cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, Assyrian reliefs and coins

British Museum to send star objects to the Gulf

Assyrian reliefs among the 500 loans earmarked for long stay in Abu Dhabi

Iraq’s ancient holy sites lost forever

The country’s monasteries and mosques have no place in the Caliphate

UK government still dragging its feet over Hague Convention

Destruction of artefacts in Syria and Iraq is a pressing issue but UK remains only major power not to ratify international law

Museum officials on hunt for lost Cranach

The painting of Venus and Cupid hung in Hitler’s breakfast room

Islamic State seizes control of Palmyra

Syrian government forces withdraw leaving archaeological site under serious threat

London’s cosmonaut exhibition is back in orbit

Science Museum show was postponed last year amid political tensions with Russia