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

The staff departures have been organised to address the gallery’s projected £8.2m deficit

The Kröller-Müller Museum is displaying a forged seascape bought by its founder

The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House

These were sketches for paintings which were never completed - or are lost

The bold early Art-Deco framing was asymmetrical with angled edges

Christie’s decides Hong Kong is the best place to sell the forest landscape

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

Before the artist’s former home was bombed in the war, two little-known paintings in the 1930s depicted its exterior in an unexpected colour

Overpainting of the genitals of a figure in the relief panel “Te Fare Amu”—once described as a “serious editorial suppression of Gauguin’s original concept”—is expected to be removed at the Brooklyn Museum

The Dutchman was “struck” by Seurat’s pointillist technique - and it influenced his own work

“Sunflowers” is the star of an Amsterdam exhibition exploring the use of the colour yellow by Van Gogh and a range of artists

The New York collector Black is revealed to have bought five of the artist’s pieces

The institution is offering a “voluntary exit scheme” for all employees and will be reducing its activities

The newly conserved “Poplars near Nuenen” goes on show in Rotterdam

In a new book, German scholar Christof Metzger also argues that a portrait in Vienna is ten years older than thought

A touring exhibition on Parisian cafés is opening in Denmark and then goes to America

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

Van Gogh’s “Self-portrait with bandaged Ear and Pipe” shows that the painter had lost none of his artistic skill—and it has an unexpected story

Must-see exhibitions coming this year include ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’ in Philadelphia and ‘Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ in Amsterdam

Catharina van Hemessen’s self-portrait will be presented at the National Gallery, as interest in early women painters grows

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

This year also brought a disturbing threat to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum

The Armed Forces Edition novel is now rare, since it was "not to be made available for civilians"—we show you a copy

Writer Octave Mirbeau, an early owner of a Sunflowers painting, titled his fictional travelogue "628-E8"—after his car’s own licence plate

The gallery has also revealed the architecture firms shortlisted to design its planned extension

The 14th-century, English-made Asante Ewer was seized from the royal palace in Kumasi in 1896 and has been held by the British Museum ever since

Gauguin gave the 'Cleopatra Pot' to Vincent’s brother Theo, just after the disastrous end of the two artists’ collaboration in Arles