Undated handout photo issued by the Tate gallery of 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' painted by John Constable ©Sam Drake/PA 5:00pm

Tate saves £23.1m Constable masterpiece

Group of public entities and galleries buy the 1831 painting

Emma Jacobs from MANAGEMENT 3:45pm

Lessons from an old master

As an art crimes investigator, former policeman Richard Ellis takes a traditional approach

'Bródno People' (2010) by Paweł Althamer and others May 21, 2013

Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York

Fragments of this creative explosion are scattered across the city

A dedicated Maratta room includes ‘The Judgment of Paris’ (1708) May 19, 2013

Houghton Revisited, Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, UK

A painstaking reconstruction of an important collection

Paul McCarthy's giant 'Balloon Dog' (2013), which sold for $950,000 at Frieze New York From COLLECTING May 17, 2013

The Art Market: bid to save the planet

DiCaprio bats for tigers; Frieze scores strongly

dolls on four-wheeled rides as artwork done by Heri Dono From COLLECTING May 17, 2013

Singapore ker-ching

The city-state’s National Art Gallery will hold the world’s largest collection of southeast Asian art

Imran Qureshi’s installation on the roof of New York’s Metropolitan Museum ©Hyla Skopitz From COLLECTING May 17, 2013

Common ground in a divided world

Can art act as an ambassador? Can it span chasms of mutual mistrust and misunderstanding?

'Red East' (1995) From COLLECTING May 17, 2013

Ploughing a new furrow

Painter Wang Xingwei has found a fertile way forward for Chinese art

‘Nanchong, Sichuan’ (2006), by Luo Dan ©Luo Dan May 17, 2013

Snapshot: ‘Nanchong, Sichuan’ (2006), by Luo Dan

The photojournalist drove from Shanghai to Lhasa to document the everyday lives of his fellow citizens

Peter Aspden May 17, 2013

Peter Aspden: Curiosity didn’t really kill the cat

A new exhibition at Margate’s Turner Contemporary gallery celebrates the wonder of the wandering mind