Treasury agrees tax refund to help keep painting from going to America

Exhibition next year reflects on the impact of the US through works by artists such as Ed Ruscha and Robert Rauschenberg

Outgoing director speaks frankly about leaving London

New museum is housed in a converted former palace of Saddam Hussein

Three million years before Duchamp, an ape-like humanoid in Africa found a stone that is now going on display for the first time at the British Museum

Work by Joan Carlile was discovered in a country auction

Costs double but funders keep faith with design museum

Architect's former home now has more exhibition space and is integrated with adjacent buildings

Dutch landscape artist's notes describe six-banded armadillo as "good to eat, tastes like a chicken”

Under his leadership, the museum attracted a record number of visitors and was crowned Museum of the Year

Fundraising is complicated after aristocratic seller paid inheritance tax on portrait by Pontormo

The relic-like painting of the Bard, which hung in the Duke's Theatre in the 1660s, was the first work donated to London's National Portrait Gallery upon its founding

Politician is determined to develop arts project on Olympic site in Stratford

Work depicting aristocrat as a young poet will remain on view at Powis Castle in Wales

Carbon-dating reveals wooden figure of A’a carved on Rurutu 250 years before arrival of Captain Cook

Andrew Vicari made bold claims to be the official painter to the King of Saudi Arabia but remains “largely unknown in Britain”

Painting of Fredrick Howard will remain at Castle Howard in Yorkshire<br>

The acquisition was made possible by a £7.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, one of the largest it has ever made

Detailed images reveal the design for the new museum outpost in east London

Gabrielle Berlatier was a farmer's daughter who kept her traumatic encounter with the artist a secret

Sybil Mignon Cooke left a touching wreath at the sculptor’s London memorial during the First World War. A new cache of letters, analysed here for the first time, reflects the extent of their affection

The exhibition in Amsterdam focuses on the artist’s mental illness and includes the revolver that he used to kill himself

Leading figures speak out about concerns for the future after UK votes to leave European Union<br>

The artist regarded his losses on the roulette table as “an expense related to painting”

Dutch artist's famous painting, The Haywain, shows musician playing bagpipe incorrectly. Could he be based on a previous print?

Proceeds from sale at Christie’s in London will benefit work on wildlife

Artists, institutions and art market respond to referendum result

Objects were evacuated to higher ground as heavy rains cause serious threat of flooding