From Christo’s huge floating sculpture in Hyde Park to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Frida Kahlo's Making Her Self Up opens at Victoria and Albert Museum

There appear to be no winners in what the Arts Council refers to as an “extremely unusual” case

Edwin Heathcote of the Financial Times reviews the Biennale, and Christopher Turner on his controversial exhibition focusing on Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens housing estate.

The V&A acquired a fragment of London's Robin Hood Gardens before it was demolished

It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges

From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery

Planned museum in Benin City offers safe environment for Western collections, the country says

Ethiopian ambassador Hailemichael Afework Aberra told The Art Newspaper podcast his government wants the seized artefacts returned, not given back on long-term loan as proposed by the V&A

Martin Bailey speaks to Hailemichael Aberra Afework, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the UK, about the artefacts seized by the British army at Maqdala, go behind the scenes of the Sony World Photography Awards with judge Gareth Harris and ask Richard Parry about his plans for Glasgow International

US Institution will collaborate with Victoria and Albert Museum at its new outpost in East London

Ambassador made request at display opening in South Kensington

Director pledges rethink on objects seized by British troops in 19th-century Africa

The story behind the garment

Around one-fifth of the objects in the Brooklyn Museum's show were not included in previous iterations

Fewer blockbusters the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery meant UK audiences stayed away

From the Deutsche Börse photography prize to Rockefeller's collection including Gauguin and Picasso

From cabinets of curiosities at the Whitechapel to confronting trauma at the Barbican

From the glitz and glamour of ocean liners to post-Brexit politics by the official election artist Cornelia Parker

Digital technologies are at the heart of a declaration by major museums and heritage organisations to record and sometimes reproduce works of art

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

Curators, museum directors and artists respond to the year's events

From the Merrie Monarch's display of power at the Queen's Gallery to a family-friendly Winnie-the-Pooh show at the Victoria and Albert Museum

As Christmas tree season begins, we look at some of the most artistic decorations to be found in the capital

Design Society in Shenzhen, steered by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, unveils four galleries this month, with two to follow in 2018

V&A and National Trust hoped to buy Clive of India’s treasures