British provenance probes

The director of the Rijksmuseum is turning the famous museum into an artistic journey through Dutch history, and combining fine and decorative arts

Restitution guidelines in the UK are changing with the times, but the marbles remain with the British Museum for now

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

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

The restitution question was hardly mentioned, but it tautened everyone’s nerves

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

Van Gogh fakes controversy continues

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 Joule archive drawings continue to cause contention

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?

Twenty US works are to be shown at Millbank for its inauguration in March 2001

A Californian company prepares to sell etchings reprinted from the seventeenth-century plates

Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime

Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement

An important test case for museums dealing with war loss cases.

The exhibition challenges you to decide which work of art is more valuable

All seven in its collection will be on display together for the first time

The Fitzwilliam acquires the missing half of its 'A rider on a rearing horse'

£25 million is asked for the Tudor manor once called home by John Paul Getty

"Nude in the studio" and "Bouquet of flowers" were commandeered by French court officials at the Maastricht fair

Constables go to Tate and eighteenth-century works to V&A

A sheet of paper found in a second-hand book by The Art Newspaper details valuations of the drawings when sold by Colnaghi

Unrecovered paintings stolen in Frankfurt, 1994.

The opening of a file on James McNeill Whistler, embargoed for a century, reveals him to have been a violent brawler, a racist and a gun-runner

English Heritage has carried out a contingency valuation of Stonehenge and discovered that 58% of those polled would be prepared to help finance the site’s improvement