The stigma around state museums selling works means that other institutions dare not buy them; and a frank review of the National Gallery's Leonardo exhibition

Art Fund raises concerns about consignment of 152 works to auction by Hertfordshire County Council

For a struggling institution, the price is short of earlier estimates

Ancient Egyptian sculpture was almost bought by the 7th marquess, whose predecessor donated it to the local museum in the 19th century

The institution failed to meet its $55m target at last month's auctions

After facing controversy for attempting to sell the work to fund another acquisition, the National Gallery of Canada will return the Modernist painting to public view

Five works made around $18m (with fees) at auctions at Sotheby’s New York on 19 May, and two were bought for undisclosed sums in private sales

The defunct museum has given the last of its 20,000 works to 22 institutions in Washington, DC

The rushed deaccessioning—to fund the acquisition of another work from neighbouring Quebec—raised a storm of criticism

The work will first goes on loan in Massachusetts and possibly elsewhere

The institution can now go ahead with plans to auction works from its collection to raise up to $55m for a renovation

The museum says the move is necessary for its long-term survival, while others protest the decision as “absurd”

If approved by the court, Rockwell's Shuffleton’s Barbershop will be bought by an unnamed US museum, and the other works sold in stages

Christie's sale of 46 works from La Salle collection will diminish the museum and its academic programme

The state’s investigation into the board’s controversial deaccessioning plan could be wrapping up within a week

Controversy prompts debate about the governance and ethics of university art museums

A judge in Massachusetts has denied two motions to block next week’s auctions of deaccessioned works

A court will decide this week whether to temporarily halt the sale of 40 works at Sotheby’s

Two works by their father are among 40 that were due to be sold by the Berkshire Museum

Among the objects to be auctioned for the endowment and refurbishment are two paintings by Norman Rockwell

Painting is one of two works from the New York museum that Applicat-Prazan will take to major fairs<br>

The Cypriot ambassador urged the museum to keep the works, while Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities demanded their return and has blacklisted the institution

A matching offer was not made in time to keep the Egyptian statute, controversially sold off by Northampton Museum in 2014, in the country

Northampton, which wants to raise funds for a gallery extension, is putting its museums' Arts Council accreditation at risk

Director of art museum in bankrupt city steels himself for long battle as price tags are put on greatest works

Even if it proves legal to sell paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, there is a moral case to consider

The Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg wants to sell the sculpture La Jambe—a key work in its collection—so it can purchase a painting by the artist

Ex-director says Brandeis University “doesn’t understand” outrage over plan to sell-off $350m collection

The collector lectures museum professionals at their annual conference in Los Angeles

Billionaire collector was given a half share in a Charles Deas painting in exchange for funding a Thomas Eakins acquisition