Show in 2018 will celebrate 250 years of the world’s most prestigious open exhibition

Funding plan to 2022 shifts emphasis away from London towards regions

New Art Gallery Walsall plans to form partnership with local university

Exhibition Road project creates new courtyard, entrance hall and subterranean gallery

Art UK to digitise nation’s 170,000 publicly owned sculptures in three-year operation

Swiss museum to stage show on the artists, who first met in the early 1960s, in time for Art Basel in 2018

Export bar lifted on Italian Mannerist painting that has been in Britain for 250 years

Remainers celebrate as Theresa May aims to lead minority government

Both the major political parties make big promises about new money for the arts

Exhibition of French Impressionist will be joined in 2018 by shows on Thomas Cole, Ed Ruscha, Mantegna and Bellini

Former Manchester director will focus on “event-driven” culture, such as performance

September exhibition will feature antiquities that have never left St Petersburg before

The then cash-strapped institution considered selling the work in the 1970s

Buckingham Palace and Royal Academy shows reunite works for the first time in nearly four centuries

Loan to National Gallery sparks internal debate about upgrading display of Taddei Tondo on its return

Matt Hancock pours scorn on Labour’s £1bn culture pledge and promises a review of UK export regulations

Published ahead of the general election in June, the UK opposition party’s manifesto includes strong support for the arts

London institution's first director, Henry Cole, designed the landmark in 1868

Images were created using military-grade thermal camera to depict migrants’ journeys to escape war and persecution

British Museum’s vision of the ancient sculptures travelling to China and Africa has so far come to nothing

Ukrainian-born American businessman Len Blavatnik's gift is the largest-ever financial contribution to a UK museum

The increase in graffiti cases over the past decade raises concerns about monitoring and protection of the collection

Looking beyond his iconic Great Wave at treasures from the museum's collection and from around the globe

Latest figures show minimal boost from weak pound and negative impact of terrorism in Europe

London show will explore one of the great nomadic civilisations of antiquity

Institution is now trying to raise £11m to buy an export-deferred work by the Italian painter

Office block next door is potential site, says director Gabriele Finaldi

A mix of old and new elements gives greater depth to Sebastiano del Piombo’s The Raising of Lazarus