Martin Bailey
The National Gallery investigates wartime provenance of 120 paintings
The London gallery aims to ensure that they are not war loot and appeals for assistance in checking their recent histories
Authenticity debate continues to tarnish Dr Gachet's Cézanne and Van Gogh donations at Grand Palais exhibition
The show gives the Musée d’Orsay’s verdict on its own questioned Van Goghs and draws attention to problems with other articles from the Gachet Collection
Princess Leonie of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach lays claim to $820 million worth of property held in Weimar public institutions
Weimar, Cultural Capital of 1999, negotiates over its cultural treasures
Action urgently needed to save Brancusi’s Endless Column
The most important outdoor sculpture of this century has been ravaged by rust, pollution, politics and conservation debates
Exploitation of the Tate Archives: Trial of accused paintings fraudster
John Drewe donated money to the Tate and allegedly doctored its documents
A campaign is underway to raise funds for the conservation of Sir George Gilbert Scott’s metalwork masterpiece, the Hereford Screen
Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.
Fraudulent former dealer duped Irish Georgian Society, cheated investors out of £1.8 million, and sent fake Expressionists to tour twelve US colleges
Bryn Lloyd Williams, a former dealer, duped Desmond Guinness of the Irish Georgian Society and cheated investors out of £1.8 million, while Expressionist fakes toured 12 US colleges
Collector profile: Sir Paul Getty's two weaknesses, books and cricket
Over twenty-five years this Anglo-American has built up a great library of early books, manuscripts and incunabula
Lloyd Webber pre-Raphaelite export exhortation
The 300 paintings and drawings in the Makins collection include works by Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Burne-Jones
The Lviv Dürer story continues: Hitler’s shadow over the British Museum
Restitution claims for the Lubomirski and Ossolinski collections are complicated by the history of Lviv’s occupiers
V&A British Galleries delay
£12 million required to complete refurbishment project.
The Hermitage proposes a Museum of Applied and Decorative Arts. $150 million wanted for joint commercial/museum scheme
British architect, Christopher Seddon, is the project manager
The Van Gogh fakes scandal: the tally one year later
Last July, The Art Newspaper broke the news that at least 45 Van Gogh paintings were suspect. This is what has happened since
Collector Paula Cussi funds Tate Freud exhibition despite export altercation
“Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings” is on show until 26 July
Art Premier introduces Museum Rental Programme
Why not have a museum masterpiece over your mantle?
Insurance payouts for the Tate as Turners remain missing
Following thefts, Tate receives funds to repurchase works stolen in Frankfurt
'A climactic moment in the history of British art': curator Norman Rosenthal on his 'Sensation' show
Eight months after the opening of the major exhibition, the man who responsible for staging the controversial show says it mattered because it reflected an unprecedented scale of art-making in Britain
Tate Modern's first director is Lars Nittve
The Swede comes straight from heading Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Dürer’s “Virgin of the Sorrows”: almost too terrible to show in Munich
Three works by the German master went on show last month following an acid attack a decade ago. Two have been restored with a new ion-exchange technique used on paintings for the first time
German Renaissance altarpiece dismembered
Edinburgh buys central panel, but the wings may have escaped
From the archive (1998): How The Art Newspaper tracked down Ethiopia’s greatest icon after its looting by a British agent in 1868
The Kwer'ata Re'esu was kept in a bank vault in Portugal, where our correspondent examined it and took colour photographs in 1998
New research shows Yasuda Sunflowers picture to be authentic Van Gogh
“Sunflowers” back in bloom
From the archive | By George! How Roy Strong acquired admired paintings of Handel and Stubbs in his first year at the National Portrait Gallery
Archives telling the story of Strong’s first years as director of the London museum, released under the 30-year rule, reveal how money was raised for two of the finest 18th-century portraits in its collection
From the archive | When Jacob Rothschild spoke out about the challenges of running the Heritage Lottery Fund
Rothschild retired as the first chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund at the end of March 1998. In a rare interview, he described its relationship with government
Pleasant and acceptable: how Pietro Annigoni came to create a second portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 1970
In 1967 the National Portrait Gallery in London did not own a portrait of the monarch—but commissioning one was to prove a challenge
Biggest Art Nouveau show ever at the V&A
Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”
Search continues for missing Raphael painting
Stolen in 1945 from a Polish prince’s museum, it is now thought to be in Bavaria