Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger

Lavish event helps museum edge closer to £95m target for ambitious NG200 programme

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements

Exhibits include a cloth said to have been worn by the saint, masterpieces by Botticelli and Zurbarán, and a new Richard Long commission

Ten-metre long painting will be displayed alongside the 15th-century altarpiece that served as its inspiration

The designer consulted restorers at the National Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Britain for his latest collection

Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess

The closure of the Sainsbury Wing ahead of a £35m refurbishment has meant that much of the museum is off limits in 2023. I hope it's worth it

Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York

Existing plans to redevelop the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which will transform its entrance, demonstrate how newer listed buildings are treated with less respect than older heritage sites

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence

UK museum now seeking loans to save blockbuster show of Modern art, after collaboration with Russia rejected

Plans to make the Grade I-listed museum wing more accessible and sustainable, described by some leading architects as "ill-judged" and "insensitive", approved by Westminster planning committee

Painstaking restoration of Italian master’s revered painting reveals its full glory once more

Plus, contemporary art in Lagos and Chagall's falling angel

Architect Edward Jones weighs in on the museum's controversial redevelopment plans

In the letter for our November issue, editor Alison Cole reflects on the tumultuous times of two London institutions

Gabriele Finaldi responds to criticism over the gallery's proposed redesign for the Sainsbury Wing

Plus, Hauser & Wirth's new restaurant gets royal approval

The environmental group Just Stop Oil says it attacked the painting in response to the UK government’s inaction on the cost-of-living and climate crises

From Cezanne's love of Provence at Tate Modern to cracking the Ancient Egyptian code at the British Museum

The campaign group, Just Stop Oil, has targeted famous works at Kelvingrove, Courtauld and Manchester Art Gallery

All you ever wanted to know about Raphael, from a page-turner monograph to a tome of his “irresistible” drawings—selected by the art historian David Ekserdjian

“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” at the National Gallery will be presented in themes, tracing the story of his stay in Provence

Star loans include The Bedroom, Garden of the Asylum and—of course—the exhibition will show the museum's own Sunflowers

A bicentenary renovation project makes the London museum play a tricky game of musical chairs with its collection

Inspired by the ever-popular internet guessing game Wordle, Artle challenges your art historical knowledge with images from the National Gallery's vast collection

Victoria and Albert Museum is last major UK institution to retain the donors' name on its building, despite settlement agreement allowing its removal

Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery