Martin Bailey

July 1997archive

At least 45 Van Goghs may well be fakes: The Art Newspaper investigates

Sixteen of the doubted paintings are displayed in the Van Gogh museum; leading scholars to consider another 21 dubious works

Unescoarchive

The aspirations of Chris Smith, new Labour Secretary of State for National Heritage

Smith hopes for Britain to rejoin UNESCO, aiming divert Lottery funds to health and education

Archivesarchive

Revealed: what happened to the “degenerate” art in Germany’s museums, from G to Z

A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis

Holbein's 500th birthday receives international recognition

It is marked by three celebrations in his native Basel and an exhibition at London's National Gallery on his renowned “Ambassadors”

Mysterious religious treasures from Mount Athos go on display in Thessaloniki

The monastery has been forbidden to women since 1060 and remains barely accessible to laymen, making this public exhibition an opportunity of a lifetime

Twenty-five Hermitage “treasures” gained as war loot still unclaimed

Watercolours and drawings seized by the Red Army in a Berlin bunker in 1945 have been on show in the Hermitage earlier this year for the first time

Lottery winners and losers. £150 million to make Britain’s museums and galleries into world leaders

But Victoria and Albert Museum’s £23m British Galleries project sent back to the drawing board

Sir Denis Mahon threatens to withdraw pictures from Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery

Veteran collector and lobbyist for the arts opposes introduction of entrance fees

Suffocation is the new non-toxic way of eliminating insect pests

Getty conservators research new methods of protecting museum works from pests

Lawarchive

Vast exodus of art from Hong Kong due to fears of a Chinese clamp-down after the handover

Collectors fear changes to export regulations after British departure

Afghanistan’s historical sites devastated: An up-to-date survey

Looting, conflict and mining have caused terrible destruction

Gilbert collection of gold and silver to go to Medici palace as well as the V&A

Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays

Tatearchive

The Tate Gallery: What The Queen, Mark Rothko, Peggy Guggenheim and Barbara Hepworth all said.

In Britain, official papers are revealed after thirty years. The Art Newspaper was ready and waiting to see what was—and what might have been

National Trust finds rare Gothic altarpiece in stables

Seven hundred year-old painting was dismissed as nineteenth-century

Newsarchive

Ukraine returns war booty to Germany

This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany

Booksarchive

Pilars, Doloreses, Imaculadas etc catalogued at the V&A

Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture

A symbol of the city rises from the rubble as Dresden's Frauenkirche is reconstructed

The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor

Tatearchive

Swap: National Gallery and Tate

Rationalising London’s paintings collections

The V&A introduces a £5 admission fee

Income from tickets represented about double the average weekly level of voluntary contributions.

Fundingarchive

How the Po-Shing Woo Foundation has subsidised the British art world

The Becket casket and Guercino are just two works of art saved for Britain with money from a Hong Kong lawyer

The Westminster Retable: technically daring and now in danger

£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece

Auctionsarchive

Mementoes of former glory in Ickworth sale

Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious

Cézanne puts Tate £1 million up.

A successful show, with record attendance of 409,000 visitors

Tate finally gets some of Hepworth archive

After much controversy surrounding the archives release, Sir Alan Bowness releases part of the archive to Tate

V&A embarks on big loan show to Baltimore on the history of the museum itself

It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry

William Morris any way you like at the V&A

A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor