Museums and Institutions

On the 100th anniversary of The Representation of the People Act 1918, where women over the age of 30 were first given the vote, ATG selects some of the most significant items that have emerged for sale.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has extended the deadline of its $10m reward offered for information regarding works stolen in a famous heist at the Boston gallery in 1990.

The British Museum has saved for the nation an 18th century drawing by Austrian Romantic artist Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839) after it was sold at auction from the estate of art critic Brian Sewell.

London dealers Agnews and Rafael Valls have jointly sold a 17th century portrait of a woman who suffered from a rare congenital condition to the Wellcome Collection.

Recovered from a US buyer, three historic cannons are returning to Southend for a new exhibition.

Four Old Master paintings from the collection of the late president of TEFAF, Willem Baron van Dedem, have been donated to the National Gallery.

In covering art and antiques, it is easy to overlook the role of the collector in among the people who created objects in the first place, and of course the dealers and auctioneers who sell them. But one collector, the late David Brown, is the subject of a show coming up in Winchester.

A member of the Saudi royal family has been identified as the winning bidder of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi.

The Louvre Abu Dhabi has announced on Twitter that Leonardo's Salvator Mundi is heading to the newly opened museum in the Middle East.

A record amount of ‘treasure’ has been found in Britain’s fields and ditches by members of the public in the past year.

A 17th-century Dutch painting looted during the Second World War, which has been in the collection of the Lord Mayor of the City of London since the 1980s, is finally being returned to its rightful heir.

The art and antiques trade, collectors, designers and art-lovers descended on the Design Centre in Chelsea Harbour on November 1 for the opening of the 'East Meets West' exhibition.

The oldest surviving music hall in the world, Wilton's, has given its complete archive to the V&A, saving the history of its eclectic performing arts at the venue for posterity.