The Council of State dismissed the Italian culture ministry’s belated attempt to repatriate “absolute masterpiece” from the Los Angeles museum

The export deferral on the famed painting has been extended to 10 June, giving London’s National Portrait Gallery a few more weeks to work out a deal, possibly with the Getty

The painting, which is currently being restored at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will ultimately return to the Sursock Palace

The group of figures, known as “Orpheus and the Sirens”, is one of four artefacts the museum is repatriating to Italy based on new evidence

Fleming succeeds the Getty’s longtime leader James Cuno, who is retiring this summer

Los Angeles museum will unveil the results of an intensive conservation of Woman-Ochre, which was badly damaged when it was stolen in 1985

Research published by forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis suggests the brilliant fresco fragment may have been illegally excavated near Pompeii

We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections

The museum, which did not disclose the price, says the work reflects a shift to a more idealised style

Formed a peerless photography collection for the J Paul Getty Museum and curated the landmark 1989 Royal Academy exhibition to mark 150 years of the art form

How have curators been filling their time while their museums remain closed? Creatively, it turns out

Museum probably paid at least $3m for the widely exhibited sculpture of a horned devil, but the misattributed work may have been made by a Polynesian artist for the European market

“Bon vivant” took over at the museum's villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976

The exhibition, which includes a preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, will also travel to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Projects will range from exhibitions about the classical world to conservation and excavations and a book about “heritage and mass atrocities”

The Getty-led PST: Art x Science x LA is due to be held in 2024

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Van Dyck’s portrait of a princess bride to a rare painting by a Brazilian Modernist

University of Arizona Museum of Art will send its painting, damaged by the thief, to the Getty

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Dalí’s lobster telephone to a bumper gift of indigenous art

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a vintage Hawaiian shirt to an heirloom Chinese art collection

The Los Angeles institution counters that it will keep on fighting to maintain the linchpin of its collection

The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says

The rise in popularity of the green vegetable mirrors that of contemporary art

New displays draw out connections between Graeco-Roman world and ancient Middle East

Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals

Getty show explores the versatility of the medium

Some are concerned that new fundraising drive will lure donors from other Los Angeles institutions

We look back at some of most important purchases and donations that entered public collections this year

Art historians and conservators will study at the Getty in Los Angeles and Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire