Inquest underway to determine whether discovery in Shropshire constitutes a "treasure"

Italian Modern art gallery reopens this week after £600,000 refurbishment

Curators hope to retrace the artist’s steps with paintings, drawings and copies of a lost journal

Japanomania returns once more to Copenhagen as the exhibition looks at how Nordic artists used Japanese art in their own work

Clandon Park, a country mansion in Surrey, was severely damaged by blaze in 2015

Malian cultural heritage at biggest risk in wake of Islamist rebel attacks

Writer was forced to sell his prized painting when he went bankrupt during gross indecency trial

Fears grow over fate of ancient Syrian site which suffered disastrous destruction during last occupation by extremists

Show will open at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in summer 2017, travel to London that autumn, then head to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

Organised with the Royal Collection, the 2018 exhibition should feature paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Titian and Mantegna owned by the ill-fated Stuart monarch

Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson

Attendance declines dramatically at York Art Gallery after admission fee is introduced

Amsterdam institution has released another statement condemning sketchbook attributed to Van Gogh

London institution raised more than £30m to buy it, but fall in pound’s value may be presenting a new obstacle

Experts at odds over attribution to painter of 65 drawings to be published in new book

Islamic extremists razed massive 2,900-year-old Assyrian structure to the ground

Heirs of Hungarian baron are selling Beaching a Boat, Brighton

Clovis Gauguin died at the Chilean fort of Fuerte Bulnes after fleeing France with his children

Museum has raised £1m but needs a further £300,000 by next March

The Italian floods of 1966 prompted a strong—and lasting—international response

The painting had been bought, and paid for, by a US collector

A new book reveals the journey of the artist’s famous furniture from Arles to a town near Arnhem in 1945

Heirs of Greta Moll are demanding London museum returns painting of their grandmother

But the 16th-century plaque, which has been substantially restored, failed to find a buyer

Funding gap and future of EU nationals among creative industry’s key concerns

One of institution's most important sculptures, now restored, was damaged by external catering team setting up for corporate event

Scottish museum hoped to raise £15m for renovation fund but international venues are proving hard to secure