Loans instead organised for V&A and other museums

The trifles and hidden lives of artists

The ancient Assyrian empire, along with over a hundred other heritage sites, will face detrimental flooding

Among the first tasks to be tackled is the complete refurbishment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.

The opening of Tate Modern has proved to have tough consequences

The publication is interpreted by William St Clair to be the result of efforts to protect the institution's reputation

The Nigerian Head of State raided a museum to present her with a Benin bronze in 1973

The verbatim account of the committee’s hearings which took place last March makes depressing reading

Unesco will convene an international meeting next month to discuss reconstruction

Houghton Hall’s William Kent furniture to remain in house but to belong to Victoria & Albert Museum

No evidence of blackmail, and video shows the artist satisfied with his gallery

Few have seen the Nimrud gold, a cache of eighth-century BC Assyrian royal gold

Potentially key witnesses, David Sylvester, Gilbert de Botton and Gilbert Lloyd, are all dead

Published accounts show that in 2000 the Hermitage raised 65% of its budget

Ancient language, song, dance and performance cannot be kept alive simply in a showcase or tended by curators. This list was produced to highlight their fragility

The opening of new galleries and the division of the museum’s collection with Tate Modern have realised Sir Henry Tate’s vision of a national gallery for British art. Three rooms for Constable and one each for Hogarth and Blake

A guide on how to best investigate provenance with specific emphasis on the specialist problems of the Holocaust-era, solvable using provenance research

Museums must set the standard for collectors and dealers, says Manus Brinkman Secretary General of the International Council of Museums

The Boijman’s van Beuningen museum wants to return a looted Toorop

A poster campaign has been launched to recover the work which disappeared from the Neue Nationalgalerie

What changes the election have wrought

Spring 2002 to see new Research Centre at Millbank

Litigation may reveal the operations of one of London’s leading galleries and its Liechtenstein subsidiary

MoMA “to continue alone”

The most expensive private town house ever put up for sale in Britain

A National Audit Office Report concludes that visitors are discouraged from visiting the institution because of its “highbrow” image

For his exhibition at the Serpentine, the conceptual artist has made an installation of art from the Victoria and Albert Museum and left its message open

Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland