Price of Leonardo’s Salvador Mundi, which sold for £333m, represents over half of government’s total financial backing for museums last year

Publicly-funded museum defends unusual move of shutting on 19 February saying it is a "charity and has to generate over 70% of funds"

Scroll hidden in animal mummy may lead to the discovery of more old texts

We explore what new ivory regulations will mean for the art world and meet the 2017 Election Artist Cornelia Parker

The pictures were made during the artist's visit to the Caribbean island of Martinique

Four exemptions, for art and musical instruments, are vital

Venues across Europe ramp up requests as multiple shows are planned for 2019

Iron Age structure was targeted in campaign against Kurdish separatists

Three buckets were used to collect dripping water close to Golden Age paintings

Exhibition will include paintings by Titian, Mantegna and Van Dyck

The director of Tate Britain reveals his plans for a major rehang and picks his favourite works in the collection

Alex Farquharson reveals the global, social concept behind planned redisplay of museum’s collection, covering 500 years of British art

Unearthing of Montmartre sketch leads to authentication of second work

Survey of Dutch master’s admiration for, and influence on, Japanese art is most ambitious yet

From King Charles I to the King of Pop

Mood of optimism “extinguished”, Arts Council head says

We track down the works of art that British agents spy at their London HQ

Encyclopaedic show was inspired by former director Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects

Two-year transformation, starting next summer, will open up the London gallery’s historic Great Room

Pre-auction assessment offers evidence that painting is original Leonardo but also reveals problems posed by painting’s wooden panel

Salvator Mundi will break Old Master auction record as seller dispute rumbles on

From the British Museum's Lion Man to Matisse's studio studies at the Royal Academy

Insect was presumably already dead as paint shows no signs of a struggle to escape

German-born curator hits back against “baseless” accusations of a conflict of interest

Earliest surviving figurative sculpture, carved from mammoth tusk, is among 160 objects in Living with Gods

Construction delays to the Zayed National Museum are behind the move

Renaissance manuscript with gold binding is being sold by London jeweller

Architect Kengo Kuma says he hopes the Scottish museum will become a “living room” for city’s residents

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

What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses