Martin Bailey
Bruegel-Rubens masterpiece goes on the block to save historic English houses
"Mars and Venus" will pay for essential repairs
Italian cathedral claims missal in British Library
Change of attitude towards restitution requests may signal changes in UK law
St Catherine's monastery: A short history, from Moses to the Arab-Israeli wars
The incredible longevity of the monastery - or mosque, for a period - can be attributed to its willingness to change with the times
Controversy over "ethnic targets" at British national museums
The government wants to set precise goals for the number of ethnic minority visitors to museums and make funding dependent on achieving them
Collector-benefactor profile: Who owns Sri Lankan, Canadian, cricketing art—and now portraiture?
Christopher Ondaatje has only recently come to public notice with his donation of £2,750,000 to London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Agatha Christie and the Orient: Adventures on the Nile.
With over 200 objects on loan from the British Museum an exhibition which charts Agatha Christie’s travels in the Orient.
Tate misses out on a Van Dyck portrait of Lucy Percy
Van Dyke painting withdrawn from sale at Christie's.
The Tate in 1971.Nick Serota resigns!
The Art Newspaper has uncovered a forgotten episode in which the young Serota clashed with the trustees of the Tate over the Young Friends’ exhibitions
In an attempt to find works of art that may have been stolen by the Nazis ten British museums have named 350 works of art whose history between 1933 and 1945 is uncertain
British provenance probes
Ronald de Leeuw’s Dutch history lesson
The director of the Rijksmuseum is turning the famous museum into an artistic journey through Dutch history, and combining fine and decorative arts
MPs would return the Elgin Marbles: Debates on museum policies concerning restitution requests continue
Restitution guidelines in the UK are changing with the times, but the marbles remain with the British Museum for now
Chronology undone
Stephen Deuchar, director of the Tate Britain, talks about the new thematic displays and future major survey shows of New British art, Blake and Spencer
Tate Britain's new thematic display revealed in 'RePresenting Britain' as international works move to Bankside
The first stage of splitting the Tate Gallery into a museum of British art and a museum of international modern art takes place this month
Declassified documents reveal near return of Elgin Marbles
In 1994, the Greek government was willing to accept the restitution of only a small number of the Parthenon pediment sculptures in exchange for an end to the dispute
Parthenon Marbles conference report: Academic interchange remains almost completely civil at the British Museum
The restitution question was hardly mentioned, but it tautened everyone’s nerves
Tate forms partnerships with regional venues across Britain
An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection
Variant vindicated? Van Gogh Museum defends its “Garden of St Paul’s”
Van Gogh fakes controversy continues
The battle over copyright: Even in death, Dalí spreads chaos
Millions of dollars from reproduction rights, hundreds of thousands of fakes and the authority to authenticate works are at stake. The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, set up to care for his work, claims that Demart, which administers his intellectual property rights, is failing to do its job
The show that dares not speak its name: Francis Bacon estate intervenes in new Dublin show
The Joule archive drawings continue to cause contention
How to raise £166 million for the Tate: “Money follows energy”
The museum’s low-profile fundraising has achieved the biggest capital sum ever for a UK museum, but who is to pay for the running costs?
Special loan arrangements set up between Tate Gallery and Yale Center for British Art.
Twenty US works are to be shown at Millbank for its inauguration in March 2001
Rembrandt will ride again as reprinting is planned from his original plates
A Californian company prepares to sell etchings reprinted from the seventeenth-century plates
Interview with Guita Abidari on the Art Loss Register
Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime
V&A off limits to women in 1913?
Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement
Tate acknowledges 'View of Hampton Court Palace' as Nazi war loot, expected to compensate family
An important test case for museums dealing with war loss cases.
Test your market savvy at the Courtauld's "The value of art"
The exhibition challenges you to decide which work of art is more valuable
Christ Church, Oxford, reopens with Leonardo
All seven in its collection will be on display together for the first time
Leonardo reunited in Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam acquires the missing half of its 'A rider on a rearing horse'
Sutton Place, the Surrey estate owned by a succession of America art collectors, has appeared on the market
£25 million is asked for the Tudor manor once called home by John Paul Getty
Museum of Epinal stakes claim to London dealer's Vuillards
"Nude in the studio" and "Bouquet of flowers" were commandeered by French court officials at the Maastricht fair