Martin Bailey
“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
The consensus is that one of the world’s greatest museums, the V&A, has lost its way. A strong leader is needed.
Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators
UK's National Trust to catalogue its books collection with US funding
Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses
Wildenstein reveal key documents on alleged war loot
While the Kann descendants have solid evidence for their claim, the Wildenstein family are confident enough in their story to share their own documents with The Art Newspaper
Don’t return artefacts to Nigeria, says expert
Leading expert on Nigerian antiquities warns that government and museum officials in the country are involved with the illicit trade of artefacts to the West
Thefts from UK national museums. Question in Parliament uncovers extensive losses
13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen
Collector profile: Gustav Rau, Schweitzer redivivus
A doctor in a remote village in the Congo, part of Dr Rau's thousand-strong collection is on display now in Paris.
How top British museums woo US donors
The Royal Academy, Tate, British Museum and National Gallery are all raising money successfully in the States, where 600,000 households report income exceeding $5m
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