Photographs show the near-catastrophic damage caused when a vandal attempted to cut the head from ‘Young Woman Seated at a Virginal’ by the Dutch master

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers’, provided an unusual opportunity to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their owners

The museum has raised concerns about the safety of its collection, visitors and staff

Visitors can go to the spot where he stood his easel, enjoy the view of the Rhône—and see how the artist transformed the scene into one of his best-loved paintings

Revelations about The Red Vineyard, now conserved at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum

The artist's granddaughter was furious with his treatment of her grandmother Olga, but his death gave her the wealth to buy work by other masters

An unusual chance to see Vincent’s own copy of a print which inspired one of his most intriguing paintings

A pair of pictures with this bizarre geological feature both ended up in New York

A painting by Antoine Watteau valued at £6m was among those granted an export licence after no museum buyer was found, however items including the Second World War notebooks of Alan Turing were saved

Civil servants felt frustrated after Prime Minister John Major returned the 13th-century artefact 30 years ago, newly released papers reveal

Nearby, the White Cube gallery is also displaying homage works by the German artist, more than 60 years after he hitchhiked in Vincent’s footsteps

The pair of works are now worth £1m, with one soon coming up for sale at Sotheby’s

Overwhelming evidence suggests it was the artist who fired the fatal shot

A rare 1929 photograph captures the scene: Vincent’s much-loved Langlois Bridge, shortly before it was destroyed

Winfield House, home to American representatives to the UK, is hidden away in Regent’s Park—and has hosted a series of Vincent’s masterpieces

The Pola Museum sheds fresh light on the veneration of Japanese artists for Vincent’s paintings

Her artistic pilgrimage in Vincent’s footsteps is explored at the Kröller-Müller Museum, including a poignant double portrait

Hockney, now 87, says he is always happy when he paints—“just like Van Gogh”

Kunstmuseum Basel is analysing the work, which has been in its collection since 1945 and may have been painted by the artist's friend, Ky-Dong Nguyen Van Cam

The painting of a Nuenen woman, on loan from Hong Gyu Shin, is the first Van Gogh ever exhibited on loan from a Korean collector

A violent hailstorm on Saturday caused water to drip into the room hosting the important show, but “no works were damaged”, a spokesperson says

The reopening of the Sainsbury Wing on 10 May will allow the gallery to show nearly 40% of its collection. The Art Newspaper took an early tour

The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection

Vincent’s audacious still-life was the first painting bought by a British collector, only three years after his death

The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937

The impending marriage was not the fundamental cause of Vincent’s mental health crisis, but he was very close to his brother and had ambivalent feelings about the arrival of a spouse

Pollution particles found in Young Woman seated at a Virginal, owned by the Rembrandt collector Thomas Kaplan, are helping to date the work, which only publicly surfaced at auction in 2004

Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this week, could approach a record price for a work on paper at auction next year

Around the world, they are in unusual venues ranging from a Japanese museum in a mountain forest to a Warsaw church dome

Japan wins out, with three separate shows that, together, will probably attract over a million visitors this year