Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition

An exhibition of Sikh treasures casts new light upon the art of an Indian culture better known for its war-like tendencies

The opening of a file on James McNeill Whistler, embargoed for a century, reveals him to have been a violent brawler, a racist and a gun-runner

V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce

The state of the trade according to Lisson, Besson, Colnaghi and others

The ruling: Museum food is tasteful and tasty

off to Blackpool?

Paula Ridley appointed

Two Constables and three small paintings discovered to be missing from storage

A former keeper offers some practical suggestions

Fewer loans in order to save resources

Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.

Fires at the Pitti Palace and Hampton Court have led to this survey of baroque sculptor, Grinling Gibbons

Three books demonstrate the revival of interest in portrait miniatures and the leading role of the Victoria and Albert Museum in this field

The history, form and function of European ironwork

£12 million required to complete refurbishment project.

No go for the V&A Libeskind

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world

Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”

A useful guide to European sculpture terminology

From gunmakers to silversmiths

A 1941 typescript has been discovered that fills in the missing history of 16,588 works of art seized by the Nazis

The curators are reluctant, but a move seems unavoidable

But Victoria and Albert Museum’s £23m British Galleries project sent back to the drawing board

Tradition meets trendiness in this huge exhibition of British fashion

200 outfits to enter the collection

The organisers propose an opposition between “vernacular” and “aesthetic” photography but the images do not allow it

Timothy Schroder named curator for the collection, and will start work on the Somerset House displays

Please touch, learn—and enjoy

Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture