“The queer sculptor who stunned 15th-century Florence explodes again after six centuries,” writes art critic Jonathan Jones of the V&A exhibition

The first major UK exhibition dedicated to the radical Italian Renaissance master will also include important works from the museum's own collection

The Victoria and Albert Museum show next year will explore the life and legacy of the “driving force behind the Italian Renaissance”

Institution cuts ties with the family behind the highly addictive drug Oxycontin

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

Museum’s director Tristram Hunt wants to loosen regulations on restituting artefacts seized by British forces in the 19th century

For more than 20 years, Archer enriched the ceramics department of the V&A with important acquisitions and research on glass, pottery and the tin-glazed earthenware on which he was a world authority

‘Anti-woke’ activist appointed along with Rosalind Blakesley and Rusty Elvidge

The next UK prime minister should abandon the war on "woke" and return to nuanced debate

From Kolkata to Chicago, here are 11 shows that deal with the many histories of nationhood and freedom in the subcontinent

Staff union claims it pressured the V&A and British Museum to take special measures

Brook's influential "white-cube" 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his epic 1985 realisation of the Sanskrit epic The Mahābhārata find echoes in art history

Tristram Hunt aims to start a “conversation” about the act next year, arguing that some items should be allowed to be restituted or deaccessioned

The head of Eros—which has been held by the London institution for 90 years—has been reunited with its sarcophagus at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum

The work charts an architect’s personal crusade to restore one of the finest remaining examples of Ottoman-Venetian homes in Old Beirut.

The ethics of the South Kensington museum are in question after hosting Conservative Party fundraiser

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

London museum signs memorandum of understanding with Bayeux city officials to develop curatorial and scientific exchange

British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum now under scrutiny of Cambodian government

The return of the Easter Egg on loan to the UK from Viktor Vekselberg’s Panamanian company could well now be complicated

Ukrainian-born mining billionaire Viktor Vekselberg lent the first Imperial Easter egg to the London museum through his foundation

Palestinian Museum is using a $480,000 grant from the Aliph Foundation to document and conserve traditional embroidered dresses known as thobes

From next month, the institution will be open for seven days a week again and timed tickets for general admission will also be dropped

Imperial Fabergé eggs and Impressionist masterpieces are some of the works currently in shows in Europe

A London panel has assembled the largest cache of evidence on the concentration camps in Xinjiang, but museums will not say if they have examined it

Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer

The Anatolian artefact had been on long-term loan to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, although not on display. Restitution is a complex issue, but in this case it was the right move

The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum

It's time to "to grasp the nettle", says the museum's director Gus Casely-Hayford of the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship