Martin Bailey
Zoffany at Tate cancelled
The 2010 exhibition may instead be shown at the Royal Academy
National Trust needs £2m for Kenyan poet’s house
Otherwise the Wandworth house's unique fretwork decoration could be lost
Tate's Van Dyck show on rocky ground as insurance obstacle may detain several works
Five iconic portraits may not be loaned to the exhibition due to legal anomaly
'Spanish Forger' miniatures bought by V&A
Scholars no nearer to finding the faker’s identity
Iran Foundation trustee found guilty of book theft from British Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library steps down from post
Farhad Hakimzadeh was given two years' imprisonment after it was learnt he had stolen volumes from the two UK institutions
Body of international experts head to Babylon to determine extent of damage inflicted by US army
Minister wants to reopen Baghdad Museum despite risks
“Dear Ronnie”: letter from Bacon in Kray sale
The auction took place on 26th January
UK museums manage dearth of exhibition sponsorship in the wake of economic downturn
Institutions must grit their teeth and hope for the intervention of private investors, as several large shows are going ahead without corporate sponsors
Waxwork of collector will not be displayed in new Gilbert Galleries
Wax and wane: Gilbert dummy in V&A storage
Biedermeier art collection to go on show in the City Palace, Vienna
The space will be the second venue in the city to host the Prince of Liechtenstein's art collection
Ex-head of Iraq's board of antiquities estimates 10 years of restoration for Babylon
The integrity of the historic site did not factor into US strategy, proven by the construction of an adjacent military base
British Army to help Iraq turn Saddam Hussein’s Lakeside Palace into a museum
British Museum also offers to assist Iraqis to present antiquities
V&A to unveil new galleries next year
The museum has spent £120m on FuturePlan projects
Goodwill and a lot of luck hands the Rubens Whitehall sketch to the Tate
Generosity on the part of Viscount Hampden, the Art Fund, and the National Heritage Memorial Fund ensured this critical work found a home at the Tate
Why the Tate turned down Rothko’s offer of 30 paintings
Archives reveal the events behind director Norman Reid’s decision to accept only nine of the artist’s pictures
British Museum, V&A, British Library and more face restitution claims as Ethiopia moves for Maqdala treasures
Treasures lost in the punitive sacking of Maqdala are subject to restitution claims
Tate Turners on tour: 'J.M.W. Turner' to be exhibited at Beijing's National Art Museum
Having travelled the US and Russia, the Turner exhibition will head to China
Lehman gift of Benin treasures to Museum of Fine Arts angers Nigeria
Works looted by the British and reassembled by banking heir find permanent home in Boston
Council's Pre-Raphaelite collection saved for public display
London's Hammersmith & Fulham was considering selling the works
Revealed: one third of Brooklyn Museum’s Coptic collection is fake
Specialists warn that museums in the US and Europe will now have to re-examine their own sculptures
Two books survey the deterioration of Iraq's cultural heritage fives years after war took hold
Sorry tales of devastation and waste, with little hope on the horizon
High-tech study could give new life to Moore’s Arch
Development in conservation of sculpture
Dresden to spend €15m and employ 65 researchers on biggest provenance study ever undertaken
1 million objects will be examined and recorded over 10 years
V&A needs £1.1m to keep Baroque cabinet in the UK
It was reassembled and sold after part of it was discovered in a pizzeria
Anthony d’Offay deal with Tate and Scotland sets tax precedent for UK philanthropy
For his partial donation of £125m worth of art, the dealer received £26.5m—the price he originally paid for the collection—tax free
Interview with Nicholas Penny on his plans for the National Gallery: “It is a real shame that we do not have more American paintings”
In his first interview since taking over, the new director outlines his priorities
Iraq war thwarts loans to Louvre for “Babylon” show
Negotiations have lasted five years only to fall through due to security issues
David Hockney donates his largest painting to Tate
Bigger Trees near Warter is 12m long and 4.5m high, and made up of 50 separate canvases
Prince of Liechtenstein withdraws loans from Germany in dispute over leaked bank details
The Neue Pinakothek in Munich has been forced to cancel a major exhibition scheduled to open next month