Martin Bailey

Prince of Liechtenstein buys historic British collection

Nine Dutch and Flemish 17th-century works will go to Vienna Museum

Germanyarchive

Germany to give €73m towards new visitor centre in Berlin

The complex is expected to attract 4m visitors a year by the end of the decade

Looted artarchive

Revealed: National Gallery’s Cranach is war loot

The painting was taken from Germany at the end of World War II

V&A to scrap academic reproduction fees

Publishers will also be able to download images directly from the website

The Bode Museum reborn in Berlin

The vast collection of sculptural works removed on the outbreak of World War II are now back on view in the newly-restored building

London: Campaign to save Theatre Museum fails

The V&A could not raise the money to keep it running

Bonhams u-turns on no-sale of Sevso silver

Last month the auction house told us it would not sell the hoard, but now it says it might

Tatearchive

New agreement between the Tate and National Gallery allows for more flexibility

Meeting between museum directors results in increased flexibility whilst borrowing pictures outside the 1900 division

Greece's Archaeological Museum of Heraklion to send Minoan antiquities to British Museum

The arrangement may be the first step in diffusing the animosity brought about by the Elgin marbles, although a request for their return is expected

Salvador Dalí tea set for V&A

Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year

Turner seller might have done better with Tate

Why was The Dark Rigi sold privately, when a public sale would have given valuable tax breaks?

Bonhams to show Sevso silver in first exhibition since its discovery

Scholars, curators, dealers and collectors have been invited to the private exhibition of the treasure known for its astonishing provenance

Charles Saatchi rents out his art

Charges range from £7,000 a year for five works to £20,000 for twenty works

Loansarchive

Bill Gates’ Leonardo notebook withdrawn from V&A exhibition

The US billionaire wanted airport-style security and exceedingly low lighting levels at the V&A

Collectorsarchive

Anita Zabludowicz plans a new contemporary art space in a former chapel in Chalk Farm

Project Space 176 will host both the Zabludowicz collection and commissions by resident artists

Tatearchive

Tate announces its exhibition schedule for 2007

Next year's schedule is packed with big names

Dealer who sold Turner masterpiece says it will go on public view in UK

Both the US National Gallery and Tate wanted to acquire The Dark Rigi but it was sold to a private collector

Tatearchive

Tate reveals what it spent in response to Ofili controversy

In an unprecedented move, the gallery has published the cost of all its purchases for the last two years

Bill Gates’ Leonardo notebook withdrawn from V&A exhibition

The US billionaire wanted airport-style security and exceedingly low lighting levels

Tatearchive

Watchdog criticises Tate for Ofili purchase

The Charity Commission is now investigating all acquisitions made from artists while they were serving as trustees

Tatearchive

Ziggurat extension for Tate

Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, this addition to the museum will provide much needed exhibition space

Tatearchive

How the US National Gallery and Tate were beaten to Turner masterpiece

The Dark Rigi has become embroiled in murky legal waters

Iraqarchive

Statue of King Entemena looted from Baghdad's National Museum recovered in New York

Following its disappearance in 2003 and an international sting, the Sumerian statue was retrieved

V&A teams up with San Francisco

Both museums are taking the international route

Tatearchive

Sotheby’s Holbein will not be included in Tate show

Neither will the National Gallery’s Ambassadors which was judged too fragile to travel across London

July 2006archive

France promised Mona Lisa to Mussolini to avert war: The untold story of Leonardo's 1939 Milan retrospective

King George VI loaned 19 of his best Leonardo drawings to Milan for the most important exhibition on the artist ever held

Owner of Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai has also loaned Modigliani to Dublin’s National Gallery

Horse breeder John Magnier has given seven other paintings to the institution for at least six years—exempting him from tax should the works be sold

V&A opens its £5.4m Islamic gallery

The new display is entirely funded by the Jameel family of Saudi Arabia