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

Getty conservators research new methods of protecting museum works from pests

Clarence House is full of treasures

Collectors fear changes to export regulations after British departure

Looting, conflict and mining have caused terrible destruction

Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays

In Britain, official papers are revealed after thirty years. The Art Newspaper was ready and waiting to see what was—and what might have been

Seven hundred year-old painting was dismissed as nineteenth-century

This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany

Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture

The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor

Rationalising London’s paintings collections

Income from tickets represented about double the average weekly level of voluntary contributions.

The Becket casket and Guercino are just two works of art saved for Britain with money from a Hong Kong lawyer

£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece

Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious

Controversial stately sell-off

A successful show, with record attendance of 409,000 visitors

After much controversy surrounding the archives release, Sir Alan Bowness releases part of the archive to Tate

It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry

A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor

V&A tackles Britain head-on

Unless a small Suffolk church can raise £168,000 to conserve one of the earliest English paintings, it may have to sell it

A commercial company has logged 34,000 looted objects so far