Involvement from galleries and auction houses is on the rise as public institutions face dwindling government funds and increased scrutiny over toxic philanthropy

Painted while Grosz was living in exile, the work has remained in the family since 1944

Insurers refused to cover the transport of loans, including salt-mine mummies and Greek and Roman antiquities

Claimant says she feels “completely exposed” in her apartment overlooked by the museum

Survey results are changed out of concern that Haacke’s work is being “co-opted”

Former Bridgestone Museum of Art will have new focus on creativity through the ages after a three-year renovation

Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, responds to criticism about the museum's three-year closure

Tender opened for guidance around repatriation questions for items including those acquired from former colonies

Satellite venue of historic Albertina is to focus on Austrian and international art made after 1945

Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum

The time is ripe for artists and curators to reconfigure what can actually be done within the walls of a museum

In honour of the victims and to promote the medium, the French culture ministry will create "a meeting, training and exhibition place"

Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s

Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, calls on the international community to condemn President Trump's threat to target Iran's cultural sites

Director says that decision was taken to protect public and works

From Tutankhamun's new king-sized home in Cairo to Munch's sleek space in Oslo, here is our pick of the big openings this year

Lead curator says relaunch next spring is timely as "the UK is reassessing its role on the European and global stage”

West London storage centre will be empty by late 2022 following move to state-of-the-art collection centre in Olympic Park

Exhibitions in UK, Europe and US speak to growing public appetite for scholarship on the women of art history

With the Louvre revealing its virtual reality Mona Lisa, museums ponder the power of tech experiences

Karla Black survey will fill both spaces, including former fruit and veg warehouse next door

The franchise’s ambitious global expansion will continue in 2020 with launch of London gallery

After €13m expansion, French museum brings together works by painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and sculptor Emile-Antoine Bourdelle

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza

Electronic visas pave the way for ever greater visitors numbers, creating major logistical problems at Tsarskoe Selo and the Hermitage

Hesse McGraw has served at San Francisco and Nebraska art institutions

“Museum” features reproductions, artefacts and even Salvator Mundi pasta sauce

Museum officials say the decision is unrelated to protests over the Sackler family's ties to Purdue Pharma

Stamatina Gregory will take the new position as the LGBTQ art museum undergoes a series of changes