Martin Bailey

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

"Hans Holbein the Younger" retrospective to take place at Basel's Kunstmuseum

The exhibition (closing 2 July) will catalogue Holbein's output during his time in Basel, preceding Tate Britain's "Holbein in England"

Claimant severs his ties with London-based restitution commission

Organisation had insisted he demand return of drawings held by the British Museum, but he wanted financial compensation

New acquisitions go on view at Tate

Tate Modern's first rehang includes Marlene Dumas

How the entire British art world was duped by a fake Egyptian statue

The British Museum, Christie’s, the National Art Collections Fund and the Inland Revenue, among others, were all fooled

Viennaarchive

Albertina to reopen its collection to scholars—finally

The institution has installed an impressive high-tech robotic system to store and retrieve its holdings of prints and drawings

Tatearchive

Official u-turn over Tate's museum status

MLA director apologises as Tate reserves right to decide over national accreditation—without loss of privilege

Author chosen for Bacon catalogue

Diplomacy will be required to deal with warring factions

Turkey claims stele in British Museum

Despite a lack of evidence suggesting that the basalt stele was excavated illegally, the Turkish government are making a bid to regain the artefact

Nazi lootarchive

Police seize medieval casket from V&A due to Nazi loot claims

The Czartoryski family in Poland, who lost much of their art during the war, say it belongs to them

March 2006archive

Tate is not a museum: Gallery could lose privileges

As it is not accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council due to its deacquisition guidelines

Art marketarchive

Tribunal rules in favour of disclosing price of Conrad Shawcross piece

After initially refusing , the true price was eventually disclosed

London: V&A Theatre Museum likely to close

The collection will be put into storage

Museumsarchive

Watts Gallery to sell pre-Raphaelite paintings

Money is needed to ensure the long-term survival of the institution set up by Victorian artist G.F. Watts

Dealer’s decision to break up William Blake album branded “philistine”

The Tate could not raise the money to buy this unique portfolio. Will a US museum save it before it is dispersed at Sotheby’s?

Parthenonarchive

Germany's Heidelberg University returns Parthenon fragment to Greece

This is the first time a piece of the ancient building has returned to Athens

Kapoor succeeds Ofili as Tate Trustee

Meanwhile the Charity Commission investigates purchase of The upper room

Ofili controversy at the Tate will lead to greater openness

After Tate resisted the release of the sums paid for Ofili's 'The Upper Room', Tate will now more often disclose the price of works bought from artist-trustees.

A solution found to Tehran's controversial Bacon triptych

Getting minds out of the gutter - despite Bacon's wishes to be there himself

Tatearchive

National Portrait Gallery: more transparent than Tate

Commission sum disclosed for Tom Phillips, unlike the purchase of "The Upper Room"