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

A highly personal still-life painting featuring a pot, milk jug and cups offers an insight into daily life in the Yellow House

The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing

Tate’s show on Expressionism reminds us that Vincent was “the father of us all”

Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”

Three weeks before a planned London gallery show of his paintings of Waterloo Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, the “perfectionist” Impressionist pulled out, dissatisfied with the state of his canvases

Fluttering butterflies enliven the greenery, but also remind us of the transience of life

As the London museum celebrates its 200th birthday, its director speaks to The Art Newspaper about plans to reopen the Sainsbury Wing in May 2025, rehang the collection and consider work on a further extension

A new biography reveals that the director of the Kröller-Müller Museum had earlier acquired eight Van Goghs for his personal collection—and he may have sold the finest one to Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Göring

Kojiro Matsukata’s still life was destroyed in a London fire and his “Van Gogh’s Bedroom” was seized during the Second World War

The Danish specialist Ittai Gradel, who first raised alarm about thefts of antiquities from the London museum, and earlier returned 61 gems bought separately on eBay, approached the Thorvaldsens Museum to help in repatriating a second, larger set of stolen pieces

The optimistic April paintings were produced at an extremely challenging time for the artist

They include an Amsterdam townscape painted an hour or so before the artist visited the newly opened museum in 1885

These works deceive readers, giving a false impression about the artist

It is almost certain, and this could well be a reason behind Vincent’s suicide

Vincent borrowed a casserole from his brother’s kitchen for the painting, which has just been acquired by Rotterdam’s art museum

The Art Newspaper has uncovered new details about the subject of the artist's 1881 painting

"One of the most challenging issues I've faced”, says museum director Alex Farquharson on dealing with the controversial 1927 artwork

An American almost bought the painting for London’s National Gallery in 1924—but it sold to a French buyer and is now coming to the UK on loan

Musée d’Orsay brings together works by Monet, Renoir, Degas and others first seen in a landmark 1874 exhibition

It’s not only the art, but also his extraordinary life story