Despite the recession, the British Museum, Tate and V&A attract major donations

Multiple claims for antiquities at New York’s Met, major exhibitions hit at London’s British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum

Out of a total of £193m, Tate's gifts by the likes of Hockney, Hirst, Bonnard and Bacon total £147m

Loan of relic caught up in international political tensions

Exhibition aims to unravel the mysteries of the Hajj to non-Muslims

This development has done little to alleviate lingering tensions between Iran and Britain

Both have set up acquisition committees concentrating on the region

The museum director has reassured Iran's vice president that the wait does not mean the loan has been called off

Unesco intergovernmental committee is now seeking “a mutually satisfactory resolution to the issue”

Fragile treasure, “Moctezuma’s Crown”, is subject of restitution claims

The British Museum pledged to send over the rare cuneiform cylinder in exchange for Iran's ample contributions to previous shows

Treasures lost in the punitive sacking of Maqdala are subject to restitution claims

The situation at the Baghdad Museum remains bleak but thieves are less of a problem at archaeological sites

A Monet suffered a 10cm tear from being punched

Visitor numbers are expected to rise to 3 million this year

Leading organisations to abolish reproduction charges for scholarly publications

The British Museum show will travel to another four venues

Organisation had insisted he demand return of drawings held by the British Museum, but he wanted financial compensation

Despite a lack of evidence suggesting that the basalt stele was excavated illegally, the Turkish government are making a bid to regain the artefact

The shift in policy follows over 30 recent claims for restitution

The Art Newspaper reveals that sacred Maqdala tablets are hidden away in a sealed store of the British Museum

Conversely, the University of Edinburgh has ruled against returning their own war loot

Update on requests for information regarding objects seized at battle of Maqdala

British Museum holds collection of objects seized at battle of Maqdala

The V&A, the British Museum and Science Museum have all been targets

As two objects are detained in Victoria, MacGregor believes something good could come out of the present confusion

As The British Museum prepares to loan the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran, The Art Newspaper remembers the Persian antiquity's first visit to its home nation in 1971

Purchased with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Arts Collection Fund

The cards were issued to US troops in Iraq to help them identify the enemy

The exhibition illustrates how monarchical patronage in the 15th century paved the way for an age of artistic accomplishment in Iran