Alexandre Calame’s Chalets at Rigi was sold in 1996 at an auction of unclaimed works with proceeds going to benefit victims of the Holocaust

First phase of the work is due to be completed by May 2024, in time for the gallery’s 200th anniversary

Picture will go on show at London’s National Gallery a century after it left for California

We asked English institutions to provide figures for the four-week period from 17 May to gauge current demand

Five-year strategy pledges to ramp up digital content and send historic paintings on UK "community tours" to mark bicentenary

Plus, vaccine passports in museums and Gossaert's Adoration

Winning sculptures will go on show in central London in 2022 and 2024

Britons will have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the painting as Covid-19 delays the National Gallery’s international tour, now on its final stop in Canberra

After long-running row over the bequest of 19th-century collector Hugh Lane, new deal adds two paintings to rotating loan and greater collaboration between the two museums

Refurbishment, to be partly completed for the museum's 200th anniversary in 2024, will encompass the lobby of the Sainsbury Wing, a new research centre and improved outdoor space

Museums have a responsibility to the people to protect and share the collection, says the London museum's director Gabriele Finaldi

From the saga over a controversially delayed Philip Guston show to an under appreciated female Old Master whose big moment never came

Tech entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset wants to shake up long-standing museum models through the ambitious award

Move reflects how museums could cash in on digital initiatives

Many UK institutions are hoping members will continue to support them despite limited benefits and recurring closures

As coronavirus forces English museums to close, take a virtual guided trip around the much-anticipated show of the female Old Master with this video and podcast

Plus, JMW Turner at the Tate and John Stezaker on Bruegel

From the National Gallery's long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition to Damien Hirst's career-spanning show at his own Newport Street Gallery

We take a tour of the Artemisia Gentileschi show in London with curator Letizia Treves and explore a new biography of Frida Kahlo with its author, Hettie Judah

Postponed by the pandemic, the show will reveal Baroque artist's recently discovered intimate letters and "unflinching" paintings

Exhibition will include the never previously exhibited transcript of the Rome trial when Artemisia accused a fellow artist of rape

When the gallery reopens on 8 July, visitors will have to book tickets in advance, and will be asked to wear face masks and stay two metres apart

Londoners will have to wait even longer to see the National Gallery’s 60 touring masterpieces

The museum is expected to reopen in July or August

On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, we look back at how art institutions adapted to wartime constraints, from tours without pictures to child's play

Delicate negotiations with lenders are under way to postpone major European shows of Raphael, Artemisia Gentileschi and Christo

We asked artists, museum directors, art historians and public figures who love art to pick the images that mean something to them at this time