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

Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed

Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension

Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>

Heirs insist German-Jewish factory owner was forced to sell portrait by Gerrit Dou in 1933

No cuts for national museums but regionals face ripple effect of reduced funding for local authorities

Outgoing director’s portrait by Wolfgang Tillmans and a Lampedusa Cross among works added to collection