Civil servants felt frustrated after Prime Minister John Major returned the 13th-century artefact 30 years ago, newly released papers reveal

Nearby, the White Cube gallery is also displaying homage works by the German artist, more than 60 years after he hitchhiked in Vincent’s footsteps

The pair of works are now worth £1m, with one soon coming up for sale at Sotheby’s

A rare 1929 photograph captures the scene: Vincent’s much-loved Langlois Bridge, shortly before it was destroyed

Winfield House, home to American representatives to the UK, is hidden away in Regent’s Park—and has hosted a series of Vincent’s masterpieces

The Pola Museum sheds fresh light on the veneration of Japanese artists for Vincent’s paintings

Her artistic pilgrimage in Vincent’s footsteps is explored at the Kröller-Müller Museum, including a poignant double portrait

Hockney, now 87, says he is always happy when he paints—“just like Van Gogh”

Kunstmuseum Basel is analysing the work, which has been in its collection since 1945 and may have been painted by the artist's friend, Ky-Dong Nguyen Van Cam

The painting of a Nuenen woman, on loan from Hong Gyu Shin, is the first Van Gogh ever exhibited on loan from a Korean collector

A violent hailstorm on Saturday caused water to drip into the room hosting the important show, but “no works were damaged”, a spokesperson says

The reopening of the Sainsbury Wing on 10 May will allow the gallery to show nearly 40% of its collection. The Art Newspaper took an early tour

Also coming up at Christie's, New York in May is an early landscape, estimated at up to $3m

The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection

Vincent’s audacious still-life was the first painting bought by a British collector, only three years after his death

Vincent’s own copy of print which inspired one of his paintings is to be shown in London

The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937

The impending marriage was not the fundamental cause of Vincent’s mental health crisis, but he was very close to his brother and had ambivalent feelings about the arrival of a spouse

Pollution particles found in Young Woman seated at a Virginal, owned by the Rembrandt collector Thomas Kaplan, are helping to date the work, which only publicly surfaced at auction in 2004

Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this week, could approach a record price for a work on paper at auction next year

Around the world, they are in unusual venues ranging from a Japanese museum in a mountain forest to a Warsaw church dome

Japan wins out, with three separate shows that, together, will probably attract over a million visitors this year

Now owned by New York’s MoMA, the painting of Joseph Roulin is the star loan for a major exhibition opening in Boston

Years later, inspired by Vincent’s paintings, the French artist became a “wild beast”

His ‘Sunflowers’ painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too

While painting Joseph Roulin and his wife and children, Vincent wrote in great excitement: “I’ve done the portraits of an entire family”

The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary exhibitions and art fairs, and renting studio spaces to creatives

At the last minute hundreds of Kiefer’s home-grown sunflower seeds stuck on a huge painting needed to be replaced after they had attracted insects

The sketch reproduces a long-lost painting of the public garden outside the Yellow House

As Birmingham’s peasant woman painting goes on loan to Charleston, we explore the question of its provenance