Martin Bailey
When Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ was bought by the National Gallery it was snubbed as one of its top 100 acquisitions of the decade
Omitted from the 1920s book, next September the masterpiece will star in a London blockbuster on Vincent’s art of Provence
Review into British Museum thefts calls for fundamental reforms
The Independent Collection Security Review urges the museum to take urgent action, including fully recording the collection and tough management changes
Van Gogh’s 'Starry Night over the Rhône' will return for the first time to the city where it was painted
But did Vincent really wear a hat fringed with candles when he was working?
'It's been a grim year—but the importance of art cannot be overlooked'
The war in Gaza casts a dark shadow over 2023
Gauguin’s shocking claim: Van Gogh painted the Sunflowers 'following my advice'
The French artist tried to rewrite history, just months before his death
‘A veritable manifesto for Modern art’: Gauguin's last literary manuscript in private hands arrives at the Courtauld
The 28-page work sees the artist praising the Impressionists and discussing ‘haunting visions’
The long and curious journey of the British Museum's Asante Ewer
The museum is investigating how the English-made jug turned up in West Africa before being seized during the 19th-century Anglo-Ashanti wars
A stolen Van Gogh drawing recovered outside a public lavatory 20 years ago goes on show
The Whitworth's watercolour will be a highlight at the Royal Academy’s exhibition
British Museum's ancient Greek Meidias vase will be loaned to Athens—leaving London for the first time in 250 years
The decision comes after the chairman of the UK institution reiterated his desire to reach an agreement with Greece over the Parthenon Marbles
Van Gogh’s 'Night Café': a haunt of prowlers, not a brothel
Vincent felt that the café he painted was where you could “ruin yourself, go mad, commit crimes”
British Museum chairman George Osborne tells guests he is eager to reach Parthenon Marbles deal
His speech was delivered at the annual dinner, held provocatively in the gallery where the ancient sculptures are housed
Unravelling the Kwer’ata Re’esu mystery: experts say the painter could be Iberian, Flemish—or German
The painting had been looted at the battle of Maqdala in 1868, but is now in the possession of a Portuguese collector
How a fake Van Gogh encouraged Barbra Streisand to buy the real thing
The star's autobiography reveals her admiration for a “self-portrait” owned by a Hollywood producer
British Museum releases further details of independent review into thefts
The review team will now liaise with the police for the criminal investigation
Van Gogh exhibitions coming up in 2024, a blockbuster and a surprise
London’s National Gallery will top the bill, with a spectacular display of paintings from Provence
Van Gogh’s sunflowers blossom in Japan
The masterpiece is celebrated in a show at Tokyo’s Sompo Museum
Where did Van Gogh shoot himself?
It may have been near the inn where he stayed—not in a more distant wheatfield
British Museum to digitise collection as one million objects are found to be undocumented
George Osborne, the chairman of the trustees, says the thefts began over two decades ago
Van Gogh paints by the River Seine, a stepping stone to Provence
A revelatory exhibition in Amsterdam on Vincent’s landscapes from the outskirts of Paris—along with those of his avant-garde colleagues
Experience Van Gogh’s final weeks—through a blockbuster exhibition in Paris
After seeing the Musée d’Orsay show, continue on to Auvers, to enter the room where Vincent lived and died
Van Gogh would have loved to see the National Gallery’s exhibition on Hals
We spotlight eight paintings in the London show that Vincent singled out for special praise
Questions raised about role of British Museum trustees as thefts crisis progresses
George Osborne, the museum's chair, and the UK culture department are among those in the spotlight in the wake of Roman and Greek objects being stolen
Exclusive: British Museum launches webpage to recover stolen objects—and announces return of 60 items
The museum has also stated that 300 further items are “due to be returned imminently”, and that it has enlisted an international taskforce
Sacred Ethiopian tablet looted by the British at the battle of Maqdala 155 years ago is returned in London church service
Restitution of tabot, which was bought by an art scholar for this purpose, puts spotlight on the British Museum to return 11 in its possession
Exclusive: first colour photographs shed fresh light on Ethiopia's most treasured icon and its looting by an agent of the British Museum
An Art Newspaper investigation uncovers new details on the infamous seizure in 1868 by Richard Holmes of a 500-year-old painting of Christ, the Kwer’ata Re’esu, which never reached the London institution
Revealed: Van Gogh’s unknown period, exploring the landscape of the remote north
The first exhibition on Vincent’s visit to Drenthe, where art consoled him after a failed love affair
After ten years, the British Museum’s Reading Room is still out of bounds
Glacial progress being made on reopening the magnificent domed space at the heart of the institution
Recovering the stolen Van Gogh: the museum director recalls the emotional moment
Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer
'Handed over in an Ikea bag': art detective recovers Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum
Three years ago, 'The Parsonage garden at Nuenen in Spring' was taken in a smash-and-grab raid in Laren
Brighter than a thousand suns: atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer and his three Van Goghs
The awesome nuclear test explosion at the heart of the new film seems prefigured by Vincent’s sunrise