Martin Bailey
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
Iran loses case against Barakat Gallery ordering return of artefacts seemingly taken from Jiroft
UK courts ruled that Iran presented insufficient evidence to warrant the antiquities' reacquisition
Tate to buy more work by women
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
Norwegian collector to sue British university for return of his antiquities
But scholars say they are likely to have been looted from Iraq
Germans call for return of paintings in the National Maritime Museum seized by British troops
The London museum has turned down two previous requests for restitution
Portuguese billionaire Berardo's UK shopping spree
José Berardo has bought eight large sculptures from the Cass Sculpture Foundation to display outside Parliament in Lisbon
Bill Gates announces there is to be Leonardo for all (those with Vista software)
The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft spoke at the British Library (BL) in January at the glitzy launch of Windows Vista, his company’s new operating system
Hungary wants to negotiate with Lord Northampton over Sevso silver
Based on its belief that the Sevso silver rightfully belongs to Hungary, the Hungarian government is seeking an out-of-court settlement with Lord Northampton
Tate launches appeal to buy Turner's Blue Rigi
The Blue Rigi has been sold to an overseas collector, and after last year's loss of the Dark Rigi the pressure is on
“Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan”: recording and illustrating key objects in the Kabul Museum
Unesco has published a record of the 1,600 objects acquired by the institution between 1931 and 1985
Is this a Holbein? The market will decide at Maastricht next month
Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota says no, but the director of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, among others, believes it is
Revealed: six paintings in Maritime Museum were seized by British troops from Nazi Germany
Last month we reported that a Nazi picture in the London gallery was taken by British soldiers at the end of World War II. We have now discovered that other works of art were also removed
Late Kenyan poet’s extraordinary house offered to National Trust
1815 Wandsworth villa with unique wooden fretwork interior
Growing evidence that Göring seized National Gallery’s Cranach from its pre-war owner
We uncover the remarkable story of how a US war reporter governed Hitler’s mountain retreat for a day and took control of Reichsmarschall Göring’s collection of stolen art
London: Stolen and recovered by the V&A
William Etty painting recovered a week after theft
Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time