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Caravaggio’s Cupid heads for London
The provocative painting of Roman god of desire will travel from Berlin in 2025
British Museum’s planned Cyrus Cylinder loan to Jerusalem sparks protests from Iran
The London institution says ancient clay drum is in the US but future venues are unconfirmed
British Museum's ancient Greek Meidias vase will be loaned to Athens—leaving London for the first time in 250 years
The decision comes after the chairman of the UK institution reiterated his desire to reach an agreement with Greece over the Parthenon Marbles
British Museum makes biggest-ever international loan for Ancient Egypt blockbuster in Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Pharaoh exhibition will open next year with 500 pieces from the London institution's permanent collection
Joshua Reynolds’s 'Portrait of Mai' could visit its Polynesian homeland
The painting of the striking Polynesian man, recently bought jointly by London's National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum, may travel to the South Pacific to be shown in Tahiti
Tate loans entire Rothko room for blockbuster Paris show
While the collection is out of the UK, works by Joan Mitchell on loan from the Fondation Louis Vuitton will hang in its place
National Gallery London masterpieces show in Shanghai sets record for visitor numbers
Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger
Trio of Salvador Dalí sculptures to headline UK summer art festival
Shrewsbury Arts Trail in the west of England has secured the works on loan from the Swiss-based Dalí Universe
British Museum returns Oceanic sculpture to Polynesia—for three years
Admired by Henry Moore and Picasso, A'a has just gone on show at Tahiti's main museum
Van Gogh's thwarted dream: a painting by the artist blocked from display in a French café
A plan to show the €75m “Garden at Auvers” in the village inn where the artist died has been halted at the last minute, although hopefully temporarily
The rise of art-backed loans is spectacular—here's how they work
Sotheby's is reportedly offering new securities service as art and finance worlds increasingly converge
Vermeer roll call: final loans for Rijksmuseum blockbuster include masterworks from the Louvre and Met
The full list of paintings to be shown in the ambitious retrospective next year was announced at a press briefing in New York
British Museum proposes new ‘Parthenon partnership’ with Greece in bid to end deadlock over Marbles
Officials will loan the ancient sculptures only if they are returned to London
Cold War era returns as cultural ties are severed between Russia and US
Cultural understanding “cancelled” as Russia withdraws from 1998 memorandum and museums wind down “all direct communications and collaborative work”
Russian Fabergé treasures from V&A show still being held in UK because of sanctions over Ukraine
Among the pieces are the first Fabergé Egg and a golden cigarette box made for the Rothschild family, which were both acquired by the oligarch Viktor Vekselberg
Masterpieces from Morozov collection return to Russia from France—but three works have been retained
Around 200 valuable works had to be sent in five convoys of six trucks across Europe as war in Ukraine hampers shipping
What will happen to sanctioned Russian oligarch’s Fabergé treasure, now V&A's show has closed?
The return of the Easter Egg on loan to the UK from Viktor Vekselberg’s Panamanian company could well now be complicated
Major work by late Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón a no-show at Venice Biennale because of war in Ukraine
The work is held at the Ludwig Museum in St. Petersburg, making it "impossible" to be shown in the Biennale's main exhibition
France seeks to protect Russia's Morozov collection from seizure as masterpieces return home
Works were on loan to a blockbuster exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
UK sanctions Russian oligarch behind major Fabergé egg loan to V&A exhibition
Ukrainian-born mining billionaire Viktor Vekselberg lent the first Imperial Easter egg to the London museum through his foundation
European institutions pull loans from Moscow exhibition about the history of duels
Museums in the UK, France, Austria and Spain recalled their works, effectively postponing the Moscow Kremlin Museums exhibition indefinitely
What will happen to Russia's treasures on loan in London and Paris?
Imperial Fabergé eggs and Impressionist masterpieces are some of the works currently in shows in Europe
How a Milan museum won the battle to show the world’s most important private collection of Futurist art
Famous Mattioli collection loan will make Museo del Novecento “undoubtedly the most important centre for Futurist art” when it goes on display next spring
Uffizi Galleries' Botticelli masterpieces—currently kept in storage—are bound for Medici villa in the Tuscan hills
The Uffizi Diffusi project aims to "scatter" works from the Florence museum's collection around overlooked sites across Tuscany on short term loans
Gerhard Richter to loan Holocaust works—that he vowed never to sell—to new Berlin museum
Loan of over 100 works to future museum of Modern art encompasses Richter’s Birkenau series, the fruit of a decades-long quest for an artistic response to the Holocaust
Exhibitions during Covid-19: museums turn to 'virtual couriers' to protect unchaperoned art
To overcome travel restrictions, registrars are using Zoom and other technologies to monitor works on loan remotely
Brisbane lands mammoth European loan exhibition from the Met
Gallery of Modern Art is sole venue for a show resulting from a skylight renovation project at the New York museum
Coalition calls for removal of director of Detroit Institute of Arts
Anonymous current and former staff members describe “hostile and chaotic work culture” under Salvador Salort-Pons
Now stuck in Japanese lockdown, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will not return to UK until next summer
Londoners will have to wait even longer to see the National Gallery’s 60 touring masterpieces
China’s Giacometti and Picasso museum delayed by coronavirus
Launch of Beijing venue combining works by both artists is postponed—and some loans in doubt