Vincent van Gogh

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

Five must-read art history books for the under-fives

All you ever wanted to know about art (if you are little), from a cat that wanders round Tate Modern at night to why Louise Bourgeois made giant spiders—selected by The Art Newspaper's Anna Brady

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

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An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council: 'these attacks have to stop'

The leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums highlight the "enormous stress for colleagues at every level of an organisation" and "visitors who now no longer feel safe" following series of protester attacks on museum works

Van Gogh Museum exposes three early fakes

A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway

Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Turner painting acquitted

Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'

Three arrested after Just Stop Oil protestors throw soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers—again

Activists who took part in a similar stunt at London's National Gallery in 2022 were jailed earlier today

Protestors who poured soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers sentenced to prison

The incident, which took place at the National Gallery in 2022, will see Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland serve two years and 20 months respectively

'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?

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

Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri — podcast

A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book zoning in on the Impressionists’ “Terrible Year” and a highlight from Museum Folkwang’s hair-themed show

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

September's must-see exhibitions: Monet, Van Gogh and a once forgotten Dutch Master

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

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

Anselm Kiefer to meet Vincent van Gogh in Royal Academy exhibition

Plus, Kerry James Marshall blockbuster to take over the main RA galleries next autumn

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”

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Victory without damage: ‘Just Stop Oil’s climate activism is one of the most successful disobedience campaigns ever’

The climate catastrophe has been brought to the forefront of the public mind without causing serious harm to the targeted works, says John Paul Stonard

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The ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’: Dutch museum raises €6m towards buying a memorable Van Gogh portrait

At today’s prices, few museums are able to purchase paintings by Vincent—the artist who failed to sell his own work

US judge rejects Nazi-loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting owned by Japanese company

After almost two years, the case has been dismissed due to a lack of jurisdiction, so the work will remain at the Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo

Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew

His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October