Martin Bailey
The Year in Review: Escalating art attacks and responses to war
This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people
‘Send us everything’: how six students brought together more than 100 Van Gogh works just a few years after his death
Their astonishing 1896 exhibition is now being celebrated by the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands
Snug as a bug: conservation work reveals beetle in Gauguin cat painting
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
Van Gogh was not fantasising when he painted mountain landscapes with ‘The Two Holes’
A pair of pictures with this bizarre geological feature have been brought together at London’s National Gallery, on loan from New York
A Van Gogh painting, newly authenticated in an unexpected Polish museum, has gone on display in a church dome
Bought by a British collector, the Dutch landscape was donated to an institution dedicated to Pope John Paul II
Vienna Art Week celebrates 20th anniversary with Rembrandt—and lots of gold
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
British Museum still taking money from tobacco firm
Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut
Van Gogh’s finest ‘London drawing’ was not done in the UK, but later in Amsterdam
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
Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2025: the global programme revealed
Ambitious shows to open in Boston, Amsterdam, Tokyo...
Leonardo Cartoon was ‘presentation drawing’ in Florence commission bid
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
Four days after finding Van Gogh with a mutilated ear, Gauguin witnessed the guillotining of a murderer
Gauguin then went on to make a ceramic self-portrait with bleeding ears
Van Gogh’s Gordina—the Mona Lisa of Brabant—bought by a Dutch museum for over £7m
We name the London collector who parted with the painting
Van Gogh’s postman: the artist's favourite portrait subject to be explored in Boston and Amsterdam shows
Vincent described his friend as having “a big, bearded face, very Socratic”
Van Gogh Museum exposes three early fakes
A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway
'The Lovers': the key painting that the National Gallery couldn't track down for its Van Gogh exhibition
Seized by Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring, the picture disappeared in mysterious circumstances during the Second World War—but could it survive?
Churchill’s Monet—restored after many years of cigar smoke—goes on show in Courtauld blockbuster
Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish
The Big Review: Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery, London ★★★★★
A magnificent show with important and rarely seen loans that highlight the Dutch artist’s astonishing achievements in Provence
Ten surprises at the National Gallery’s five-star Van Gogh exhibition
Visitors will be ‘blown away’ by the masterpieces—but there are intriguing and little-known stories behind many of the loans
Nazi-era claims for two Van Goghs in Switzerland?
Acquired by the arms dealer Emil Bührle, both have been on loan to a Zurich museum
Bucolic Van Gogh riverscape with royal connections set to become the artist’s most expensive Paris work
“Moored Boats”, the “gem in the crown of the Bourbon collection”, will be auctioned in Hong Kong
‘At Tate Modern, I want us to take real risks’: director outlines her plans to borrow rather than buy some works of Indigenous art
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
Van Gogh’s fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London
The artist’s idiosyncratic terms for two sitters—lover and poet—inspired the theme of the 60-work exhibition
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns
Work on foyer reveals John Sainsbury’s note buried in extension to London’s National Gallery
Somerset House fire: Courtauld Gallery reopens with collection undamaged
Extent of damage to building is unclear and being investigated
V&A beats Met to acquire medieval ivory sculpture of Christ for £2m
The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year
Looted Asante treasures find a new palace home in Ghana
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
Nicholas Penny resigns from Acceptance in Lieu panel in protest over adviser ‘forced out’ of Arts Council role
The former director of the National Gallery quits after “catastrophic” exit of Anastasia Tennant, the Arts Council’s senior policy adviser on cultural property
Behind the British Museum’s struggle to find a space to show one of its greatest Assyrian reliefs
The rare and much-studied work has been in storage for most of 18 years, but no UK institution has asked to borrow it
An exclusive visit to Van Gogh’s asylum garden to track down the scenes that he painted
As Vincent wrote to his brother, “life happens … in the garden, it isn’t so sad”
‘It’s doing real damage’: new book on Van Gogh attacks idea that the artist was a nature painter
The author Michael Lobel argues that Vincent was more focused on industrial pollution