A scion of the famous banking dynasty, he led the National Gallery, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Waddesdon Manor

Members of Riposte Alimentaire demand the right to "healthy and sustainable food" after splattering pumpkin soup over the protective glazing in front of the world's most-viewed painting

The coming year has buttons for everyone to press including a celebration of the computer artist Harold Cohen and Art Dubai Digital

Velázquez masterpiece required 'conservation treatment to minor damage sustained to the painting surface, and the fitting of new glazing' following hammer attack on 6 November

Works by the Florentine artist, who has been largely overlooked since his death aged 35, will go on show at the National Gallery

This week's attack by climate protesters is the third time that the National Gallery masterpiece has been recruited to articulate contemporary social or cultural concerns

Two Just Stop Oil Activists targeted the work as a protest against new UK gas and oil licences, just over a century after the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the same painting in 1914

We spotlight eight paintings in the London show that Vincent singled out for special praise

First major survey of Dutch painter in three decades will include reunited panels and monumental paintings

Police are attempting to "make contact" with a man photographed on the edge of the central London gallery's roof

Curator urges Rego fans to put pen to paper and get the vast work put on permanent display

Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger

Lavish event helps museum edge closer to £95m target for ambitious NG200 programme

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements

Exhibits include a cloth said to have been worn by the saint, masterpieces by Botticelli and Zurbarán, and a new Richard Long commission

Ten-metre long painting will be displayed alongside the 15th-century altarpiece that served as its inspiration

The designer consulted restorers at the National Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Britain for his latest collection

Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess

The closure of the Sainsbury Wing ahead of a £35m refurbishment has meant that much of the museum is off limits in 2023. I hope it's worth it

Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York

Existing plans to redevelop the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which will transform its entrance, demonstrate how newer listed buildings are treated with less respect than older heritage sites

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence

UK museum now seeking loans to save blockbuster show of Modern art, after collaboration with Russia rejected

Plans to make the Grade I-listed museum wing more accessible and sustainable, described by some leading architects as "ill-judged" and "insensitive", approved by Westminster planning committee

Painstaking restoration of Italian master’s revered painting reveals its full glory once more

Plus, contemporary art in Lagos and Chagall's falling angel

Architect Edward Jones weighs in on the museum's controversial redevelopment plans

In the letter for our November issue, editor Alison Cole reflects on the tumultuous times of two London institutions

Gabriele Finaldi responds to criticism over the gallery's proposed redesign for the Sainsbury Wing