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

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