Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public

Their pioneering role is celebrated in an exhibition opening in Hamburg

The British Museum has agreed to loan two marble fragments to the Liebieghaus exhibition, which recreates the east pediment of the temple for the first time

Now owned by the Niarchos Greek shipping family, it will be loaned to a huge show on the fabled pioneer collector Gustave Fayet

As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey

The work is on loan to the exhibition ‘Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand’ at the Ducal Museum Gotha

The work—which was praised by Picasso—has taken an improbable route to an exhibition at the Wallace Collection

But he did buy seven of the artist’s paintings, which are now shown at his Philadelphia museum—including two risqué ones

Lent by British private collectors, the Van Goghs subsequently went abroad—except for a fake, which is now in a castle in Wales

The Kunsthistorisches Museum says that ‘Portrait of an Old Man’, previously banished to a storeroom without a firm attribution, is in fact by the leading Baroque artist

And why did he sign so few? The intriguing story behind his signatures

The masterpiece, alongside 62 other works given by the Pearlman family, is coming on tour from Los Angeles

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

‘A Symphony in Blue and Yellow’ raises intriguing questions about how the artist wanted to present his masterpieces

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

Once owned by a US vice president, the print was acquired by the Shah’s wife and is now at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

The New York collector acquired five of the artist’s works, including a landscape worth over $60m

Vermeer with his yellows and blues; Rubens and “strokes of pure red”; and Rembrandt’s self-portraits

Documents, photographs, drawings, paintings—and even a sketch of the artist on his deathbed

Did these panoramic landscapes foreshadow the artist’s untimely death?

James McNeill Whistler’s celebrated maternal portrait reminded Vincent of his own mother

Unusually, the objects will not be transferred to their country of origin but to the UK Institute of Jainology for deposit at the University of Birmingham

Now owned by London’s National Gallery, “Cupid complaining to Venus” once hung in the Führer’s private living room and was later smuggled to the US by an American journalist—but how exactly it ended up in Munich remains a mystery

“The Harvest in Provence”, once owned by a British collector, is estimated to sell for up to $35m

Photographic albums assembled by the artist’s early biographer Gustave Coquiot provide a glimpse into his Arles scenes

Gradel’s investigations led to the revelation that 2,000 objects from the British Museum‘s collection had been stolen or damaged

Two exhibitions open in Auvers-sur-Oise, the last stop on the artist’s journey

Two West African musical instruments at the Fowler Museum were looted by British troops in the late 19th century

Two of the arms dealer's Van Goghs could be the subject of Nazi-era restitution issues

Mystery surrounds where the ‘Aya Kese’ was made and how it reached the West African kingdom of the Asante centuries ago