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In Australia, all of the major national art institutions are run by men, but it’s encouraging that women are being recognised

Sjarel Ex explains how the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen acquired a Hammershøi at TEFAF

Boris Johnson and Ni Zhaoxing plan to rebuild the Crystal Palace on Sydenham Hill. It’s a ludicrous project

My annual search has turned into something of an obsession

Launched just months before the outbreak of war, Vorticism was ill-timed and short-lived. But it’s a vital chapter in the history of British art

Maurice Davies on museum funding, Daisy Dunn on Pompeii’s stolen fresco, and other stories from the Muse Room this week

The museum omitted Chinese artefacts from a history of homosexuality

The UK government’s Cultural Gifts Scheme is a nice idea, but most museums already have more work than they know what to do with

Entrepreneur Karlheinz Essl hopes to sell his private collection to Austria, to save 4000 jobs at his company

What does it mean to be selected for TEFAF’s yearly Showcase of promising new galleries?

The theft of part of a minor fresco in Pompeii is not in itself a huge loss, but it highlights wider security and conservation issues

Lost, stolen, restored, repackaged and photographed: a round-up of art news and debates from this week

Are the rules governing photography in many major museums just too confusing?

Apparently Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock are all the Russian official – who faces US sanctions – will miss

As long as we have art, some of it will go missing. It’s how we respond to that fact that’s ultimately of importance to our culture

Ethical dilemmas, a defence of art dealers, and highlights from this week’s major art fairs…

The debate over arts sponsorship in Australia is riddled with difficult questions and double standards

Mark Hudson’s begrudging defence of Cork Street is a species of support London’s gallerists can do without

Art theft is rife in the world of film. Who doesn’t love a good heist?