Martin Bailey
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Last July, The Art Newspaper broke the news that at least 45 Van Gogh paintings were suspect. This is what has happened since
“Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings” is on show until 26 July
Why not have a museum masterpiece over your mantle?
Following thefts, Tate receives funds to repurchase works stolen in Frankfurt
Eight months after the opening of the major exhibition, the man who responsible for staging the controversial show says it mattered because it reflected an unprecedented scale of art-making in Britain
The Swede comes straight from heading Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Three works by the German master went on show last month following an acid attack a decade ago. Two have been restored with a new ion-exchange technique used on paintings for the first time
Edinburgh buys central panel, but the wings may have escaped
The Kwer'ata Re'esu was kept in a bank vault in Portugal, where our correspondent examined it and took colour photographs in 1998
“Sunflowers” back in bloom
Archives telling the story of Strong’s first years as director of the London museum, released under the 30-year rule, reveal how money was raised for two of the finest 18th-century portraits in its collection
Rothschild retired as the first chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund at the end of March 1998. In a rare interview, he described its relationship with government
In 1967 the National Portrait Gallery in London did not own a portrait of the monarch—but commissioning one was to prove a challenge
Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”
Stolen in 1945 from a Polish prince’s museum, it is now thought to be in Bavaria
The Krupps go to war again
With modern foreign art to be displayed at Bankside, opinion within the Tate differs as to how the story of British art should be told
"There is room for uncertainty around the edges"
The Van Gogh fakes controversy continues
Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead
Sir Edwin Manton, an American-based insurance executive, has donated £7 million ($11.2 million)
Sixteen of the doubted paintings are displayed in the Van Gogh museum; leading scholars to consider another 21 dubious works
Smith hopes for Britain to rejoin UNESCO, aiming divert Lottery funds to health and education
A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis
It is marked by three celebrations in his native Basel and an exhibition at London's National Gallery on his renowned “Ambassadors”
The monastery has been forbidden to women since 1060 and remains barely accessible to laymen, making this public exhibition an opportunity of a lifetime
Watercolours and drawings seized by the Red Army in a Berlin bunker in 1945 have been on show in the Hermitage earlier this year for the first time
The curators are reluctant, but a move seems unavoidable
But Victoria and Albert Museum’s £23m British Galleries project sent back to the drawing board
Veteran collector and lobbyist for the arts opposes introduction of entrance fees