Event, which was the first of its kind in the world and now involves more than 20 institutions, is run by museums rather than dealers

Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut

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

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...

Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month

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

We name the London collector who parted with the painting

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

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

Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish

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

Acquired by the arms dealer Emil Bührle, both have been on loan to a Zurich museum

“Moored Boats”, the “gem in the crown of the Bourbon collection”, will be auctioned in Hong Kong

Karin Hindsbo, director of the London gallery for the past year, wants it to be a ground-breaking institution. She discusses plans to raise annual visitor numbers to six million and for a free festival to mark next year’s 25th birthday

The artist’s idiosyncratic terms for two sitters—lover and poet—inspired the theme of the 60-work exhibition

Work on foyer reveals John Sainsbury’s note buried in extension to London’s National Gallery

Extent of damage to building is unclear and being investigated

The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year

Objects from the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are on loan to the Asante king, while the Fowler Museum has transferred ownership of seven items

The former director of the National Gallery quits after “catastrophic” exit of Anastasia Tennant, the Arts Council’s senior policy adviser on cultural property

The rare and much-studied work has been in storage for most of 18 years, but no UK institution has asked to borrow it

As Vincent wrote to his brother, “life happens … in the garden, it isn’t so sad”

The author Michael Lobel argues that Vincent was more focused on industrial pollution

At today’s prices, few museums are able to purchase paintings by Vincent—the artist who failed to sell his own work

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

His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October

George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series