National Gallery
Tate to go for Rubens Whitehall sketch
Valued at £11.5m, the preliminary sketch for The Apotheosis of King James I is now up for sale
National Gallery and British Museum follow V&A’s lead
Leading organisations to abolish reproduction charges for scholarly publications
Growing evidence that Göring seized National Gallery’s Cranach from its pre-war owner
We uncover the remarkable story of how a US war reporter governed Hitler’s mountain retreat for a day and took control of Reichsmarschall Göring’s collection of stolen art
Revealed: National Gallery’s Cranach is war loot
The painting was taken from Germany at the end of World War II
New agreement between the Tate and National Gallery allows for more flexibility
Meeting between museum directors results in increased flexibility whilst borrowing pictures outside the 1900 division
Sotheby’s Holbein will not be included in Tate show
Neither will the National Gallery’s Ambassadors which was judged too fragile to travel across London
Tate considers National Gallery’s proposal to show early 20th-century art
Trustees discuss idea following our report
National Gallery may start acquiring 20th-century art
The move would put the institution in competition with Tate
Leonardo underdrawings revealed, putting the authenticity of the Virgin of the rocks beyond dispute
Infra-red examination shows abandoned original design
The National Gallery discloses further information on Raphael's "Madonna of the pinks"
Still excluded from the material was correspondence we had requested relating to the final price of £22 million
The National Gallery purchases Raphael’s Madonna of the pinks: What we know
The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004
Complex negotiations for National Gallery's Raphael show
Fragility of panels has made museums reluctant to lend
The future of Raphael’s "Madonna of the pinks" still hangs in the balance
A lottery grant of £11.5 million may not be enough to keep the painting at the National Gallery
National Gallery reaches out to the underprivileged in bid to save Raphael from export
“The Madonna of the pinks” may have been painted for a nun in Perugia
Britain may lose Omai (twice) and an exquisite Raphael
Tate and the National Gallery reverse longstanding softly, softly policy over purchases to try to retain masterpieces
Tate and National Gallery visitors down since museums became free
Government policy promotes Free Admission
National Gallery and Getty fight over Raphael
The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million
Art is much more important than art history
As Neil MacGregor joins the British Museum as director next month, we publish a valedictory interview with him about the experience he gained leading the National Gallery
Travelling survey places Goya's images of women in their context
The National Gallery of Art
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich, the universal Romantic artist
The publication of a new monograph on Caspar David Friedrich neatly coincides with the opening of the National Gallery’s exhibition of 19th-century German paintings on loan from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
London’s National Gallery withdraws from bidding on possible war loot
Metropolitan Monet subject to claim
In an attempt to find works of art that may have been stolen by the Nazis ten British museums have named 350 works of art whose history between 1933 and 1945 is uncertain
British provenance probes
V&A off limits to women in 1913?
Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement
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
From the archive | Waddesdon, Museum of the Year and the exemplar of a Rothschild house
Jacob Rothschild, the banker and former head of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, always took a deeply personal interest in the last of the great Rothschild houses
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
Bacon at last meets the pope as Velázquez comes to town
The National Gallery will display Portrait of Pope Innocent X with Bacon's reinterpretations
What's happening in the world of information technology in the museum community
A three-day conference and exhibition in London with new projects on show