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Many examples of missing gold jewellery, gems and ancient items were not catalogued, say cultural heritage experts

Hartwig Fischer announced his resignation from the position on Friday.

People are stunned to learn Illinois State Fair butter cow sculpture isn’t entirely made of butter

British Museum director Hartwig Fischer will step down after treasures were reported to be stolen or missing from the London institution.

The German art historian has been in the post since 2016.

Hartwig Fischer admitted the museum ‘did not respond as comprehensively as it should have in response to warnings in 2021’

Still lifes by Henri Fantin-Latour, Islamic architectural inspiration and recent acquisitions at the British Museum – all in your weekly dispatch

Changes in the law and where we were living prompted us to have very different ceremonies

Peter Howson is an artist who has spent much of his life “tussling with the beast inside”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Born in London in 1958 and brought up in Glasgow, he immediately “stood out” when he first began exhibiting his work in the mid-1980s. For one…

The son of Picasso and French painter Françoise Gilot, who also died this year aged 101, managed his father’s hugely valuable estate until July

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