The UK's 15 nationally funded museums have seen visitor numbers drop by over a third compared to June 2019, thanks in large part to the pandemic. They are now facing price rises, with government support still unclear

The Bathers drew protests in 1964 when London's National Gallery bought it for £475,000 and there were fears it would be vandalised

Westminster Abbey, which is directly under the monarch’s jurisdiction, currently refuses to return the holy tablet

London exhibition will also include Cézannes once owned by artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso

US collectors and museums came late to Vincent’s paintings, yet eventually amassed the finest works outside the Netherlands—plus a few embarrassing fakes

And who were the brave collectors, way ahead of their time?

Ahead of Tate Modern’s Cézanne blockbuster exhibition, we investigate the two artists' links

Tate Modern and Southbank Centre will be open overnight to provide toilet facilities to those queueing to see the Queen's coffin

Museum’s director Tristram Hunt wants to loosen regulations on restituting artefacts seized by British forces in the 19th century

Highlight shows in Chicago, Paris and Amsterdam—plus a 50th birthday celebration for the Van Gogh Museum

Britain’s longest-serving monarch died at Balmoral, her private estate in Aberdeenshire. During her reign she oversaw the opening up of the Royal Collection to the public and to art history

Analysis of The Milkmaid ahead of a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum suggests he worked much faster than previously assumed

Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City

The story of an unknown register of patients is in my “Starry Night” book, out in paperback this month

If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum

The National Gallery of Art has carried out scientific tests on the works, finding fascinating discoveries beneath the paint

The x-ray will be displayed in a lightbox in the forthcoming exhibition A Taste for Impressionism at National Galleries of Scotland

Barry Joule disputes gallery’s claim that trove of sketches and documents, which he donated, was "unsuitable for retention"

The head of Eros—which has been held by the London institution for 90 years—has been reunited with its sarcophagus at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum

The initiative marks 30 years of formal cultural relations between the two countries

“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” at the National Gallery will be presented in themes, tracing the story of his stay in Provence

Star loans include The Bedroom, Garden of the Asylum and—of course—the exhibition will show the museum's own Sunflowers

Plus, US photographer of queer women, Alice Austen; and Michel Majerus at Art Basel

A book and exhibition will reveal surprising facts about some of the artist’s best-loved motifs

A bicentenary renovation project makes the London museum play a tricky game of musical chairs with its collection

And why was “Vincent’s Chair” sold to London’s National Gallery in the 1920s, while “Gauguin’s Chair” was hidden away?

A thousand documents and sketches from the Barry Joule collection to be deaccessioned by London museum over attribution doubts

British Council has so far failed to get extra emergency funding to save ravaged heritage

Although his paintings now fetch millions, during his lifetime he perhaps ended up pricing them too high

The London gallery has quietly stopped describing its head, Jennifer Scott, as 'the Sackler Director'