A trip to the National Gallery was eerie and alien—although a newly restored Van Dyck painting briefly shook off my anxiety

In a letter leaked to The Art Newspaper, the culture minister Oliver Dowden tells directors they must raise their own funds during the pandemic—but how?

Job cuts and planned repurposing of country houses will lead to a corporatisation of the nation's heritage sites

History can teach us a lot about how to—and how not to—deal with problematic historic monuments

Social distancing measures mean a lot of money will be spent on a small number of visitors, institutions should be focusing on their online presence instead

By bowing out of the Renaissance blockbuster tour, the Edinburgh museum has not only let down the Scottish public but shown its priorities are misplaced

Publishers and libraries are extending their online access to help art historians put their period of enforced seclusion to good use

After the coronavirus pandemic, we will need our museums' masterpieces as never before

We speak to our journalists Anna Somers Cocks and Lisa Movius about their experiences of lockdown. Plus, we begin a new feature—Lonely Works—where we look at individual works of art that are now hanging unseen in galleries. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

Discussion around Yale's decision to pull its introductory survey course reveals unnerving trend for "morally appropriate" studies

Research for a new book begins with a pilgrimage to find prehistoric rock art in northern England

The stigma around state museums selling works means that other institutions dare not buy them; and a frank review of the National Gallery's Leonardo exhibition

The London museum will close between 2020 and 2023, but the announcement was buried in the fourth paragraph of a press release

When it comes to having a historian rummaging in their stores, smaller institutions tend to be more enthusiastic and accommodating

If Scottish independence follows Brexit, what will happen to the national collection?

Court documents reveal that the museum took little action to rectify the education team's employment status

What better way to boost its star power than by making it "disappear" for a few months?

Plus, taking a stand on copyright

New exhibition on Joan Carlile, Mary Beale and Anne Killigrew opens in London this week

The Art Fund is doing away with its volunteers

A version of the Mona Lisa by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci recently sold at Sotheby's for $1.69m

Facts seem no longer to matter with the famous picture

The Queen has seven Rembrandts, 29 Van Dycks and 52 Canalettos, yet not one is on long-term display in Scotland

Turin has all the grandeur of Paris, but none of the haughtiness

London's National Gallery and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam are both documenting repairs of major works—plus a personal conservation confession

Once an expert authority on Van Dyck, the museum now has nothing more to say about him than a link to an unverified website

Rubens’s portrait of his daughter Clara Serena gave me the urge to steal a painting

Birmingham Museums Trust takes the lead and places images in the public domain, but who will follow?

The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait

A shoestring trip to La Serenissima—and a thumbs-up for Simon Schama