Martin Bailey
Van Gogh’s Gordina—the Mona Lisa of Brabant—bought by a Dutch museum for over £7m
We name the London collector who parted with the painting
Van Gogh’s postman: the artist's favourite portrait subject to be explored in Boston and Amsterdam shows
Vincent described his friend as having “a big, bearded face, very Socratic”
Van Gogh Museum exposes three early fakes
A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway
'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?
Churchill’s Monet—restored after many years of cigar smoke—goes on show in Courtauld blockbuster
Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish
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
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
‘At Tate Modern, I want us to take real risks’: director outlines her plans to borrow rather than buy some works of Indigenous art
Karin Hindsbo, director of the London gallery for the past year, wants it to be a ground-breaking institution. She discusses plans to raise annual visitor numbers to six million and for a free festival to mark next year’s 25th birthday
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
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns
Work on foyer reveals John Sainsbury’s note buried in extension to London’s National Gallery
Somerset House fire: Courtauld Gallery reopens with collection undamaged
Extent of damage to building is unclear and being investigated
V&A beats Met to acquire medieval ivory sculpture of Christ for £2m
The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year
Looted Asante treasures find a new palace home in Ghana
Objects from the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are on loan to the Asante king, while the Fowler Museum has transferred ownership of seven items
Nicholas Penny resigns from Acceptance in Lieu panel in protest over adviser ‘forced out’ of Arts Council role
The former director of the National Gallery quits after “catastrophic” exit of Anastasia Tennant, the Arts Council’s senior policy adviser on cultural property
Behind the British Museum’s struggle to find a space to show one of its greatest Assyrian reliefs
The rare and much-studied work has been in storage for most of 18 years, but no UK institution has asked to borrow it
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”
‘It’s doing real damage’: new book on Van Gogh attacks idea that the artist was a nature painter
The author Michael Lobel argues that Vincent was more focused on industrial pollution
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
Van Gogh’s Starry Night is back in Arles, revealing more of its mysteries
Visitors can also go to the spot where he stood his easel, enjoy the riverside view—and see how the artist transformed the scene into one of his best-loved paintings
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
‘We’ve got our man’ says British Museum chair as BBC programme digs deep into thefts
George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series
How drinking too much coffee fuelled Van Gogh’s work
A highly personal still-life painting featuring a pot, milk jug and cups offers an insight into daily life in the Yellow House
British Museum recovers a further 268 stolen objects
The institution’s chair George Osborne has described the total number of items returned as a result that “few expected”, though more than 800 remain missing
How Van Gogh’s ‘Bedroom’ paved the way to Modern art
Tate’s show on Expressionism reminds us that Vincent was “the father of us all”
'One of my great heroes': A new book on Francis Bacon sheds light on his admiration for Van Gogh
Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”
Courtauld show to make Monet’s 1905 London ‘dream’ exhibition a reality
Three weeks before a planned London gallery show of his paintings of Waterloo Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, the “perfectionist” Impressionist pulled out, dissatisfied with the state of his canvases
Christie’s will get a record price for a Van Gogh Paris painting, with a garden scene estimated at up to $35m
Fluttering butterflies enliven the greenery, but also remind us of the transience of life
Gabriele Finaldi welcomes a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to rethink London’s National Gallery
As the London museum celebrates its 200th birthday, its director speaks to The Art Newspaper about plans to reopen the Sainsbury Wing in May 2025, rehang the collection and consider work on a further extension