Martin Bailey
£25 million needed for complete refurbishment of the fifteen British Galleries at the V&A, now in a sadly shabby state
V&A tackles Britain head-on
Save a medieval rarity spared by the Reformation and Civil War: Thornham Parva retable in urgent need of conservation
Unless a small Suffolk church can raise £168,000 to conserve one of the earliest English paintings, it may have to sell it
Global registry of looted art established
A commercial company has logged 34,000 looted objects so far
Experts suggest Raphael's cartoons conceived as rivals to Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel
Detailed study of the V&A's Raphael cartoons suggests he painted them as independent works of art
Seeking out Van Eyck's "The Just Judges" altarpiece
Next month the Belgian city of Ghent is mounting a high-tech search for a panel of Van Eyck's masterpiece missing since 1934
Fifty years ago: looking at the art and artists of 1945
Peace was celebrated in Europe fifty years ago. As The Art Newspaper reaches its fiftieth issue this month, we look at the art of a war-torn world
Books: Stalin’s supermuseum
As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow
Introducing Graham Kirkham, “The most serious British collector in the marketplace”
The Yorkshire furniture tycoon is one of the most important art and antique collectors in Britain today, but his name is almost unknown
The Lubomirski Dürers: where are they now?
The Art Newspaper has tracked down twenty-four of the drawings looted by Hitler and sold by the prince whose ancestors had donated them to their local museum
Hitler, the prince and the Dürers: The complex story of Lviv's looted Old Master works
After a long, strange journey, the Lubomirski Museum Dürers are now subject to restitutions claims by both Poland and the Ukraine
The Hepworth papers: why the delay?
Despite the sculptor’s wishes, Alan Bowness has failed to hand her papers over to the Tate
The Book of Kings returned to Iran by US in exchange for de Kooning painting
The greatest surviving Persian manuscript was swapped for Woman III, once owned by the Shah of Iran
"The Baroque World": A five-volume Atlas of baroque art, published by UNESCO
$2.5 million publication covering fifty countries
Mastermind behind Wedgwood fakes was at work for 20 years
Scotland Yard launches investigation into highly skilful counterfeits of antique Jasper and Black Basalt ware
Divine Dalì's opera on birth, death, and Catherine the Great in her underwear
Opera conceived by Salvador Dalì in 1927 recorded in 1974, is released on CD
Dresden's Frauenkirche: the Bell of Stone to hang again
Britain’s Foreign Office to support reconstruction of church bombed by Allies