Martin Bailey

Lootingarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

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Van Dyke painting withdrawn from sale at Christie's.

Tatearchive

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

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

Tatearchive

Tate forms partnerships with regional venues across Britain

An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection

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

Tatearchive

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?

Tatearchive

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

Art marketarchive

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

Interviewarchive

Interview with Guita Abidari on the Art Loss Register

Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime

Archivesarchive

V&A off limits to women in 1913?

Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement

Art marketarchive

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'

Francearchive

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