Martin Bailey
Spanish portrait bought by Prince of Liechtenstein detained in UK
The National Gallery is now trying to raise the funds to buy it
V&A contemporary gallery funded by disgraced Tory’s family charity
New space named after the Porter family
John Linnell painting stolen in daylight robbery at the V&A
ary Doyle pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court
Security breaches at Tate, British Museum and Musée d’Orsay
A Monet suffered a 10cm tear from being punched
Revealed: how a US collector gave Churchill a Monet the Tate wanted
Charing Cross Bridge of 1902 was gifted by a friend after he was ensured it would satisfy by Tate director John Rothenstein
Tate to go for Rubens Whitehall sketch
Valued at £11.5m, the preliminary sketch for The Apotheosis of King James I is now up for sale
Charles Saatchi’s art to go on rotating display at Hermitage
Works on loan from the British collector will go on display in a room named after him; Tate to send Turner Prize retrospective to Moscow
Queen to send Leonardos on UK tour
Celebrating Prince Charles' 60th with 10 of the master's best works
British Museum exhibition fees to fund expansion of terracotta warriors’ site
Visitor numbers are expected to rise to 3 million this year
Buccleuch family Leonardo found
Ninth Duke did not live to see his painting returned
National Gallery and British Museum follow V&A’s lead
Leading organisations to abolish reproduction charges for scholarly publications
Slower than planned, Tate Modern’s expansion starts in the basement
Only part of the project will be completed by next summer, with a lack of funds hampering progress
Careful arrangements are being made for scholars cataloguing cuneiform tablets at SOAS following dispute at UCL
Some of these tablets originate from Iraq
V&A considers leasing paintings
Director Mark Jones believes works should be loaned out rather than kept in storage
Europe’s greatest museum buyer explains the strategy behind his acquisitions
The Prince of Liechtenstein explains 'Why I have become a great collector'
UCL damned over handling of looted Aramaic antiquities
A report which concluded that ancient bowls on loan from a Norwegian collector “must have been illegally excavated in Iraq” has not been made public
Bill Gates’s Leonardo Codex removed from British Library website
Leading scholar is “saddened” by decision
An international mission had found no evidence of recent looting at eight sites in south Iraq; some archaeologists were far from pleased
The unwelcome truth
V&A sets its sights on expansion—again
New plans for developing the former 'Spiral' space
V&A appoints medieval collector as chair
Paul Ruddock accepted the position after Sir John Tusa changed his mind
Tate aims to increase ethnic minority visitors
In the current funding agreement with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the gallery’s “Diversity strategy” is described as a “key priority”
Unesco criticises private campaign to choose new seven wonders
Scheme is led by former Unesco director
Anita Zabludowicz reinvents North London chapel as experimental gallery
The inaugural exhibition will feature a portion of her own collection, as well as a contribution from New York's Rina Banerjee
V&A will not get casket back
Medieval casket returned to UK owner; Czartoryski family to pursue case with support of Polish Ministry of Culture
Incantation bowls returned to collector after being subject of a recent independent inquiry
The objects have been on loan to UCL since 1995
Official opening of New Acropolis Museum to feature partially recreated Parthenon frieze
The museum, which has been in development since 1976, is finally opening its doors
The German museum paintings secretly sold by the British government in 1946
Nearly 80 pictures, including works by Cranach and Kauffmann, were seized from the German embassy in London
Benin bronzes finally united in Viennese comprehensive exhibition
Major show at the Museum für Völkerkunde includes loans from current Oba
Lord Leighton's masterpiece Flaming June to go on display at Tate Britain
The painting will be loaned by Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico as it refurbishes its gallery, along with Burne-Jones' Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon
Greece's share of Parthenon marbles to be transported to New Acropolis Museum using series of cranes
After it was determined that other means of removal might pose risk to the sculptures, being lifted by air appeared the safest option