Martin Bailey
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
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
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
Britain’s National Art Library is full so V&A library may occupy the old Public Record Office
The curators are reluctant, but a move seems unavoidable
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
The Queen Mother is revealed to be a top collector
Clarence House is full of treasures
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
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
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
Germany leads the way as Europe sees increased sponsorship of the arts
Record giving approached £1bn across the continent
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
The V&A introduces a £5 admission fee
Income from tickets represented about double the average weekly level of voluntary contributions.
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
Mementoes of former glory in Ickworth sale
Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious
The National Trust was not given the option to buy objects from Ickworth House by the Marquess of Bristol
Controversial stately sell-off
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