Visitor numbers at Shanghai Museum eclipse institution’s most successful London exhibitions

Amsterdam show on the artist's Martinique trip also reveals Tate watercolour as a genuine work by Gauguin

Double-sided work, bequeathed in 1962, had previously been attributed to the French artist's circle

Historic Pugin floor tiles, on which many a prime minister has trodden, available for £200 a piece

A great admirer of Japanese prints, the whorls of brushstrokes in Vincent's night sky could have been partly suggested by a turbulent sea

Japan galleries refurbished under new ten-year partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation

New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child

Artefact is one of around 200 on show in largest exhibition on the region in almost 40 years

New research reveals name of man in the artist’s finest asylum portrait

His family also suggested that he become an accountant or a barber

Decision follows a controversial closure in February for Erdem’s runway show

Opening of outpost in Dundee this week is latest in series of out-of-London projects

The museum does “not have the resources to create biographies for every individual” in its collection, spokeswoman says

Julian Schnabel’s new film on Van Gogh is based on questionable assumptions

Hidden underground galleries closed since 2006 still house £100m Assyrian relief

Vincent painted At Eternity’s Gate, the title of the film premiering in Venice, when he was at the asylum

The museum as well as the Mauritshuis in The Hague have stopped collaborating with the oil company by "mutual decision"

“Human error” by Ipsos Retail Performance blamed for museum’s disastrous recent visitor numbers

Van Gogh drawing had been folded in half in 1945 to fit inside a suitcase

Decision should put decade-long legal battle between museum and heirs of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker "to rest"

New report says a more restrictive migration system for EU citizens “could threaten the international status of the UK’s world-class institutions”

A “purr-fect” ending to the story of the missing pottery object found in the collection of the artist’s secret granddaughter

Chairman and trustee resigned amid investigation into more than £90,000 spent on consultancy firm they directed

Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns: Between Paris and Pont-Aven opens at National Gallery of Ireland

Eighty of the gaudy monsters have been recreated for the 18th-century tower at London's royal botanic gardens

Sacred object taken by British troops in the 19th century is concealed inside an altar

Being part of the Museum of the Year brings kudos and a big PR boost, but some finalists have still found the financial going tough

Donation from Victor Sassoon was not accepted by the museum when it was first offered in the 1950s

Loans likely to come from Iran—but works from the Met would not meet London museum's strict borrowing guidelines

Seized during the Ashanti war and long held by the London museum, the prized Ghanaian work is to be displayed in a new permanent gallery