NewsSponsorship
South London Gallery returned funding to Sackler Trust last year
Plus, Nan Goldin's show at the National Portrait Gallery is expected to go ahead after the trust and London museum decided not to proceed with a £1m grant
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Fake no more: poppy painting in US museum is by Van Gogh—and has a surprise under the surface
Still life at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, is authenticated after decades hidden in storage
NewsRestitution
London museum returns emperor's hair—taken by a British officer as a war trophy—to Ethiopia
The two locks will be buried at the monastery where emperor Tewodros' body was interred
NewsSponsorship
London's National Portrait Gallery and Sackler Trust to 'not proceed' with £1m grant
Mutual decision comes amid controversy over trust's connection to Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, a prescription painkiller linked to the opioid crisis
NewsOpenings
Basrah Museum unveils three new galleries in Saddam Hussein's former palace
Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia rooms open with support from UK government's Cultural Protection Fund
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Discoveries under the floorboards of Van Gogh’s bedroom in Brixton
Mysterious papers were found during the restoration of the south London house in Hackford Road where the Dutchman lodged
NewsClaude Monet
Export licence granted for Monet's $63m painting of London
Owned by a British collector for almost 70 years, the work showing Charing Cross Bridge has gone abroad
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The astonishing life of Johan van Gogh: Vincent's great-nephew dies aged 96
A tribute to Theo van Gogh’s grandson, who served in the Dutch secret service
NewsRembrandt
English Heritage lends its Rembrandt self-portrait to Gagosian gallery in exchange for support
Self-portrait with Two Circles at Kenwood House is the charity’s greatest painting, along with a Vermeer
NewsEthnographic art
Oxford museum rethinks famed display of shrunken heads
The review of the ‘tsantsas’ is part of a wider exercise looking at the Pitt Rivers Museum’s historic labels
NewsRestitution
London’s National Army Museum to return emperor's hair to Ethiopia
Hair was cut from the emperor Tewodros's body after he committed suicide following defeat at the battle of Maqdala in 1868
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
These are the two Van Goghs that David Hockney dreams of hanging in his bedroom
British artist's exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum opens this week
NewsSculpture
All the UK's 150,000 public sculptures to go online
First 1,000 entries were published today
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Revealed: Van Gogh’s English friend in Antwerp, Emslie Horniman
Memories of the artist from the son of the founder of London’s Horniman Museum uncovered in archival letters
NewsRembrandt
Lucian Freud’s Rembrandt project that never was
The late artist wanted to use a work by the Dutch master as inspiration for one of his final paintings
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Former Tate director's hidden tribute to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
James Manson paid homage to the artist by painting his own bouquet
InterviewRijksmuseum
Interview: the Rijksmuseum's Taco Dibbits on Rembrandt's pulling power
We speak to the general director of the Dutch museum ahead of its exhibition on "all" of the works by the master in its collection
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How Van Gogh's Sunflowers have inspired generations of British artists
Painters from Brangwyn to Nash paid homage to the masterpiece, all illustrated on the Art UK site
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San Francisco’s Van Gogh is the real deal
The still life of fruit and chestnuts, until recently dismissed as a fake, was painted in Paris
NewsBanksy
Kerching! Banksy-note enters British Museum
Di-faced Tenner is artist’s first work to join the collection officially—unlike his 2005 cave painting prank
NewsControversies
Tory peer involved in controversial sale of Iraqi antiquities
Reliefs from Ashurnasirpal II’s Nimrud palace, fixed to the walls of a Scottish mansion, have been removed, stripped and sold abroad
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci's thumbprint discovered on drawing in Royal Collection
The mark is “the most convincing candidate for an authentic Leonardo fingerprint” among the Queen’s 550 works by the great artist
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Amsterdam Sunflowers will never again travel
Conservators are concerned over Van Gogh’s still life, which went to over 80 exhibitions after the war
NewsTate Modern
Tate partners with Hyundai to promote non-Western art
New research centre project means South Korean motor company is now probably the largest corporate sponsor of visual arts for UK museums
NewsBrexit
Art world guide on how to deal with 'no deal' Brexit released
Arts Council England publishes advice on movement of art, imports and exports, funding, and travel for artists and professionals in case an agreement is not reached
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Who painted the mystery nude in the Van Gogh brothers' collection?
Museum specialist believes he has uncovered the identity of the artist—and his voluptuous muse
NewsBritish Museum
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl will not travel to Quai Branly in Paris for Oceania exhibition
Royal Academy says conservation issues—not restitution fears—mean the ceremonial feast trough can not be loaned
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s most important painting leaves Europe for the first time
National Gallery’s Sunflowers heads to Japan where it is likely to be seen by around a million people
NewsDeaccessioning
Revealed: marquess of Northampton tried to buy Sekhemka statue before it was controversially sold off by UK museum
Ancient Egyptian sculpture was almost bought by the 7th marquess, whose predecessor donated it to the local museum in the 19th century
NewsVincent Van Gogh
National Gallery in London to send Van Gogh's Sunflowers to Japan
Exhibition with 60 other loans from the museum will help celebrate the Tokyo Olympics in 2020
NewsEdvard Munch
British Museum to stage major show of Munch prints
Exhibition in London will be largest in 50 years
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
The most important Van Gogh discoveries, exhibitions, sales and books of 2018
From the discovery of a Montmartre drawing to a $40m sale at Christie's
NewsOpenings
After year-long rain check, Rijksmuseum Schiphol prepares to reopen
Airport branch of Amsterdam museum closed in January due to a leaky roof
NewsIvory
UK approves ivory ban
An extension to include hippopotamus, walrus and narwhal ivory will be discussed next year
NewsExhibitions
London's National Gallery plans major Artemisia Gentileschi show in 2020
Exhibition of Europe’s greatest female Old Master will include museum's freshly conserved acquisition
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Revealed online for the first time: photograph showing Van Gogh painting slashed in 1978
Criminally insane visitor attacked the self-portrait at the Van Gogh Museum
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Van Gogh's portrait of a prostitute coming up for sale
Christie’s, more discreetly, entitles it “Portrait de femme”
NewsAlbrecht Dürer
Dürer used his famous Praying Hands drawing to advertise his talent
Chief curator of Vienna’s Albertina argues that the work, which shows the artist's own hands, was a finished work rather than preparatory drawing
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Mistaken identity: new discovery means there is only one known photograph of Vincent van Gogh
The childhood image that was assumed to be of Vincent is now believed to depict his brother Theo
NewsSalvator Mundi
Would the 'royal' Salvator Mundi please stand up?
Pushkin Museum’s Giampietrino painting may be the one listed in inventory of Charles I’s collection, rather than the Abu Dhabi work
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Amsterdam show to explore Van Gogh’s influence on Hockney
Exhibition of 120 works will reveal a shared fascination with nature, bold use of colour and experimentation with perspective
NewsControversies
Smoking pipe, razor and revolver removed from Van Gogh sculpture in London's Brixton
Controversial items relating to the artist's life were scrapped from original design over fears they could be linked to drug, knife and gun crime
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh sculpture unveiled outside the London lodgings where he fell in love
As well as Brixton, Anthony Padgett’s works will go to Isleworth, Ramsgate, Welwyn, the Borinage, Nuenen and Arles
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
When the National Gallery used a London taxi to move a Van Gogh painting
Back during Tate’s 1947 exhibition, loan arrangements were more casual
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Revealed: must-see Van Gogh exhibitions, part two—2019-21
We release details of Detroit exhibition on America’s love for the artist, plus others in Frankfurt, Potsdam, Santa Barbara and Columbus
NewsVincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh self-portrait—almost sold by cash-strapped Detroit—will be star of major show on the artist and America in 2020
Sale was stopped at last minute after city received financial support from Michigan
InterviewMuseums & Heritage
Tristram Hunt unveils plans for V&A East—the Victoria & Albert Museum's satellite London location
Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says
NewsCrime
Police arrest man after attempted theft of Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral
Incident is a further blow to English city following the novichok poisonings earlier this year
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Revealed: must-see Van Gogh exhibitions, part one—2019
Shows planned for Houston, London, Amsterdam and Den Bosch next year
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Newly discovered photograph depicts the man who got Van Gogh fired as an art dealer
The image—in the collection of London's National Portrait Gallery—shows a confident Charles Obach, compared to one of an ill-at-ease Vincent
NewsAppointments
The Met's Luke Syson to head Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
Curator returns to the UK where he organised the blockbuster 2011 Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London
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Van Gogh's garden painting set to make $40m auction record for Paris period
Now being sold by a London-based collector at Christie's New York, the work will probably go to Japan or China
NewsExhibitions
Tate’s most popular ever exhibition not staged in UK—but in China
Visitor numbers at Shanghai Museum eclipse institution’s most successful London exhibitions
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Gauguin’s kitten reappears in Van Gogh’s Yellow House
Amsterdam show on the artist's Martinique trip also reveals Tate watercolour as a genuine work by Gauguin
NewsFrieze London 2018
Tate’s watercolour is upgraded to a Gauguin
Double-sided work, bequeathed in 1962, had previously been attributed to the French artist's circle
NewsHeritage
Chunks of British Parliament go on sale
Historic Pugin floor tiles, on which many a prime minister has trodden, available for £200 a piece
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
How Van Gogh's Starry Night was inspired by Hokusai’s Great Wave
A great admirer of Japanese prints, the whorls of brushstrokes in Vincent's night sky could have been partly suggested by a turbulent sea
NewsMuseums
From armour to the A-bomb: British Museum's Japanese collection goes back on show
Japan galleries refurbished under new ten-year partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation
NewsThomas Gainsborough
Murders most foul: Gainsborough family revenge killings trigger reassessment of artist’s early years
New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child
PreviewExhibitions
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl served up in Royal Academy of Art’s Oceania show
Artefact is one of around 200 on show in largest exhibition on the region in almost 40 years
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Mystery identity of Van Gogh’s 'gardener' solved
New research reveals name of man in the artist’s finest asylum portrait
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Vincent the baker? Van Gogh's possible careers
His family also suggested that he become an accountant or a barber
NewsMuseums
London’s National Portrait Gallery to partially close for London Fashion Week event (again)
Decision follows a controversial closure in February for Erdem’s runway show
NewsMuseums
Victoria and Albert Museum now a 'multi-site' institution
Opening of outpost in Dundee this week is latest in series of out-of-London projects
NewsMuseums
Tate outsources artist biographies on its website to Wikipedia
The museum does “not have the resources to create biographies for every individual” in its collection, spokeswoman says
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh: it was suicide, not murder
Julian Schnabel’s new film on Van Gogh is based on questionable assumptions
NewsEducation
Labour Party to put creativity 'back at the heart of the school curriculum'
Pledge comes at a time of decline in arts subjects in schools
NewsMuseums
British Museum’s basement of treasures to remain off-limits
Hidden underground galleries closed since 2006 still house £100m Assyrian relief
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The revealing story of the painting that inspired Julian Schnabel’s new Van Gogh film
Vincent painted At Eternity’s Gate, the title of the film premiering in Venice, when he was at the asylum
NewsMuseums
Shell sponsorship deal with Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum ends
The museum as well as the Mauritshuis in The Hague have stopped collaborating with the oil company by "mutual decision"
NewsAttendance
London's National Portrait Gallery's steep decline in visitors due to counting error
“Human error” by Ipsos Retail Performance blamed for museum’s disastrous recent visitor numbers
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Starry Night is held by Russian government
Van Gogh drawing had been folded in half in 1945 to fit inside a suitcase
NewsArt law
Norton Simon Museum can keep Nazi-looted Cranachs, US court rules
Decision should put decade-long legal battle between museum and heirs of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker "to rest"
NewsMuseums
House of Lords warns Brexit may starve UK museums of skilled workers
New report says a more restrictive migration system for EU citizens “could threaten the international status of the UK’s world-class institutions”
NewsClaude Monet
Monet’s lost cat returns home to Giverny
A “purr-fect” ending to the story of the missing pottery object found in the collection of the artist’s secret granddaughter