Arts Council insists export licence is required for relic of the martyred Maid<br>

With three times as much space, museum will have a free permanent exhibition for first time

Jewel sold in UK for £300,000 last month has left the country—but did it have an export licence?

Director and trustees worried that show would anger Thatcher government after Britain officially boycotted Moscow Games

Star attraction of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has suffered from pigment deterioration and addition of later varnish

Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire will house one of the finest aristocratic collections in England

Embassy offers to take ownership of the sculpture and lend it to British Museum and Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Interview with the National Gallery's new director, who wants to "ramp up" the exhibition programme and rewrite deal between it and the Tate

The international burglary ring targeted objects for a growing Chinese black market

Key loans include the most expensive work by a female artist ever sold at auction

Madrid museum still allows The Haywain to be centrepiece of blockbuster show in artist’s home town

Sculptures and works on paper to be added to database of oil paintings

Museums across UK were warned about gang making “reconnaissance visits”

Study of a Bull, from a "very private collection", has never been exhibited before

Bruce Boucher taught at UCL for 24 years before becoming director of Fralin Museum in Virginia

Dutch doubts over attribution led to tough action against retrospective in the artist's birthplace

Louvre and Rijksmuseum acquire portraits of husband and wife with a little help from Christie's<br>

Wolfgang Buttress’s installation on the honey-makers was on show in Milan

Temptation of St Anthony in the Nelson-Atkins Museum was believed to be by a pupil of the great Dutch artist

Boost for tourism as rising numbers of visitors flock to London and beyond

Portuguese structure in Cabo Verde is oldest European building in the tropics

Repair bill rises at Buckingham Palace

Charity will halt public campaigns to save art after another buyer withdraws export application

Show opening in April will include major loans from Italian island’s museums

Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy

Plans are in motion to move the collection from the Barbican to the Victorian market

The destruction, which went unreported for 16 months, raises fears that other sites have been attacked