Gregor Weber's biography "Johannes Vermeer: Faith, Light and Reflection" also supports the controversial view that Vermeer used a camera obscura

We take a look at the most exciting shows around the world this year

From Mondrian to Rothko, when it comes to hanging a painting, museums don't always get things right first (or even second) time

Museum in London acquired refurbished ticket kiosk site for £3m with funds from businessman Len Blavatnik

Plus, the best books on Vincent and the artist's booming immersive experiences

Vincent’s best-loved paintings are singled out by climate protestors

The artist’s commission will bring a ‘new perspective’ to the painting, which has been off view since 2020

The world is “much more connected than it was” but the criteria for issuing export bars have remained unchanged since 1952, Stephen Parkinson explains

New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence

The etched portrait of Dr Gachet, who treated Vincent after he shot himself, is in the Wellcome Collection

The museum has until March 2023 to stop the work leaving the UK

UK museum now seeking loans to save blockbuster show of Modern art, after collaboration with Russia rejected

The announcement signalled a shift of resources away from London, a broader range of venues beyond traditional art museums and an overall reduction in real terms

New additions to Old Master's canon go against a recent analysis conducted by Washington D.C's National Gallery of Art

A still life, painted just after Vincent mutilated his ear, holds intriguing clues

A seascape that fetched nearly $3m at Sotheby’s this week was one of the works abandoned in an attic

Previous top price was $82m for a portrait of Dr Gachet

Jewel that gives its name to an 1892 Tahitian carving was added to the work years after the French artist’s death, researcher discovers

Californian collectors had the taste and cash to buy some of his finest paintings, with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Robinson and Barbra Streisand

The full list of paintings to be shown in the ambitious retrospective next year was announced at a press briefing in New York

Coming up at Christie’s and estimated at around $4m, the sketch given to neighbours who doused the fire and saved the Van Gogh family home and collection in 1941

At least 28 paintings, out of around 35 known works by the artist, will go to Amsterdam next year

The definitive biography is now published in English—with a fresh explanation as to why the Sunflowers came to London

The 1983 National Heritage Act was debated in the House of Lords—but the issue of reform will be further discussed ahead of its 40-year anniversary in May 2023

The orchard blossom scene, from the collection of Microsoft founder Paul Allen, is being sold by Christie’s

From Cezanne's love of Provence at Tate Modern to cracking the Ancient Egyptian code at the British Museum

The London viewing gallery will open next year

The downgrading follows a study of the six paintings in the museum's collection thought to be by the Dutch master, which are now the subject of an exhibition detailing the findings

Klimt discovered Van Gogh in 1903—and took inspiration from the Dutch painter for his early landscapes

The UK's 15 nationally funded museums have seen visitor numbers drop by over a third compared to June 2019, thanks in large part to the pandemic. They are now facing price rises, with government support still unclear