As Birmingham’s peasant woman painting goes on loan to Charleston, we explore the question of its provenance

The picture shows the ward where the artist slept after mutilating his ear—I witnessed the room’s tragic demolition

The New York-based LMI Group claims the $50 portrait is a previously unknown work by the Dutch master, perhaps now worth $15m, but the Van Gogh Museum rejects it

A new Dutch book provides the first comprehensive account of how the artist’s work has been targeted by thieves

Both pictures were acquired by the same private collector, they have not left Switzerland for a century

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

This year also marks the 150th anniversary of Vincent’s time as a young art dealer in England

The exhibition, which will host a 24-hour opening during its closing weekend, has been one of the most visited in the museum’s history

Our review of 2024: record sales, exhibitions, fakes—and tracking down Dr Gachet

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

This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum

Their astonishing 1896 exhibition is now being celebrated by the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands

The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century

A pair of pictures with this bizarre geological feature have been brought together at London’s National Gallery, on loan from New York

Bought by a British collector, the Dutch landscape was donated to an institution dedicated to Pope John Paul II

All you ever wanted to know about art (if you are little), from a cat that wanders round Tate Modern at night to why Louise Bourgeois made giant spiders—selected by The Art Newspaper's Anna Brady

The sketch of Austin Friars Church throws fresh light on Vincent’s draftsmanship, suggesting he was even more of a late developer as an artist

Ambitious shows to open in Boston, Amsterdam, Tokyo...

Gauguin then went on to make a ceramic self-portrait with bleeding ears

We name the London collector who parted with the painting

The leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums highlight the "enormous stress for colleagues at every level of an organisation" and "visitors who now no longer feel safe" following series of protester attacks on museum works

Vincent described his friend as having “a big, bearded face, very Socratic”

A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway

Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'

Activists who took part in a similar stunt at London's National Gallery in 2022 were jailed earlier today

The incident, which took place at the National Gallery in 2022, will see Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland serve two years and 20 months respectively

Seized by Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring, the picture disappeared in mysterious circumstances during the Second World War—but could it survive?

A magnificent show with important and rarely seen loans that highlight the Dutch artist’s astonishing achievements in Provence

Visitors will be ‘blown away’ by the masterpieces—but there are intriguing and little-known stories behind many of the loans

A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book zoning in on the Impressionists’ “Terrible Year” and a highlight from Museum Folkwang’s hair-themed show