Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

The future House of Abrahamic religions in Abu Dhabi shows how the UAE differs from Saudi Arabia

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia’s luxury vessel has unexpectedly circumnavigated Europe and docked in the Netherlands

The 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt this year has prompted a glut of exhibitions devoted to the Dutch artist and his peers

Our London and New York teams ponder 2018's biggest art stories. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Spiralling costs of museum project chiefly to blame for bankruptcy, say press reports

Leonardo da Vinci’s La Belle Ferronière will remain on loan to the museum for another year

$450.3m Leonardo da Vinci painting was due to be unveiled at museum in two weeks but its display has now been delayed

The Art Newspaper invites Matthew Landrus to expand on his theory on attribution to Leonardo and studio

Did Louvre Abu Dhabi’s $450m painting belong to an English nobleman who followed Charles I to the scaffold in 1649?

The painting will be lent to the Louvre in Paris next year for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of artist's death

Rediscovered portraits are due to travel to Louvre Abu Dhabi in early 2019

Jean-Luc Martinez says the museum’s international projects have skyrocketed over the past five years

Opening mega museums is not the only way to exercise soft power in the region

Anna Somers Cocks, founder-editor of The Art Newspaper, in discussion with Roxane Zand of Sotheby’s at the Asia Society, New York, 1 March

Museum claims it was an "oversight", but others say it was political

We look back at some of most important purchases and donations that entered public collections this year

Private money makes its mark

Announcement appears to contradict earlier reports linking purchase to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince

Gesture consolidates close political alliance between Saudi Arabia and the UAE

A French study of the Gulf museums sees them as the Versailles of the sheikhs—a step towards autocracy

Improvements are well documented, but rules are still inadequately enforced

The pair were blindfolded then interrogated for up to 10 hours by authorities over their coverage of migrant workers

Nudes? non-Islamic religions? Questioning the nature of God?

Some dealers at the fair report brisk early business but say big sales are a waiting game

New museum's universal approach derives from the open-mindedness of the founder of the UAE

This year’s fair has 13 new exhibitors and is hoping for more international visitors