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
How to bring new audiences to older art displays
I only found out by accident how well off the museum really is
He relied on advisers such as Van Dyck to guide his acquisitions. How different is the art of connoisseurship today?
New research shows that image licensing is barely profitable for some UK museums
We pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look at the big exhibitions coming to the US this year
When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist
Better public understanding of condition requires greater access to digital images
New £7.3m record for Joseph Wright of Derby painting tops December sales in London
Museums’ licensing demands are a pernicious tax on scholarship
Sotheby’s offers its most valuable Old Master sale in London, and a Guardi painting at Christie’s could break records
As collector's flock to Maastricht for Tefaf, here is our guide to recognising a painting's hidden qualities
A stroke of a ministerial pen saved Liverpool’s collections 35 years ago—the same needs to happen again
Tefaf New York proved there is life in the market—can this week's sales do the same?
From a poetic Claude landscape to Rubens's masterpiece depicting biblical incest, here's our pick of this week's sales
Bendor Grosvenor says Britain leaving the European Union could be costly for the arts and art market