From family gifts of cufflinks and chocolate to his darker days in the asylum, a look at where Vincent was and what he was doing on 30 March each year

Plus, Laura Cumming on Breugel. Produced in association with Christie's

Detectives are intensifying their investigation into the latest crime, at Laren’s Singer museum, which was committed this week on the artist’s birthday

The artist copied poems and hymns into an album that belonged to his London landlady; our investigations reveal that, around 100 years later, an unknown perpetrator cut the pages into pieces in order to make a quick buck

Vincent lay in bed, puffing away and dreamily composing his pictures

A three-volume set of The Letters of Edgar Degas—including ten with references to the Van Gogh brothers—is due to be published in April

Renaissance specialists are divided as to which painting is the one commissioned by Philip II of Spain: the one at London's Apsley House or the one at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid

The UK artist is on the hunt for the Parisian restaurant scene, now with a secretive Texan collector

London museum says staff member does not work in a front-of-house role and all affected areas have been deep cleaned

Negotiations are ongoing, but the Foreign Office says releasing 1972 documents on the claim “would harm UK relations with Zambia”

New York’s Hammer Galleries has priced the Paris park scene at $10m-$12m

One of very few examples in private hands, the work from an American collection is coming to the market via Agnews

The Albertina mounts a display of the Hahnlosers' relatively unknown treasures

Japanese government instructs national art museums to close for two weeks — shutting the door on London’s National Gallery travelling show, on the eve of opening

The etched portrait of Dr Gachet, who tended to the artist after he shot himself, was donated by the doctor's son

The Dutchman’s newly attributed Oslo self-portrait is unveiled in an Amsterdam exhibition, while the Frenchman’s bohemian portrait suffers a downgrading

The Hahnloser Collection paintings are being lent to the Austrian museum while the Winterthur villa where they usually reside undergoes renovations

After a long-running debate, the picture, going on show at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam today, has been attributed to Charles Giron

Story directly inspired by The Art Newspaper’s article on the artists’s Japanese ornament, which sat in the dining room at his Giverny home, will be published in May

Curatorial group WHW (What, How & for Whom), who are joint directors of Vienna’s Kunsthalle, on their experimental approach to museum leadership and exhibitions

Independent scholar uncovers questionable provenance for the sculpture that the Oxford institution bought from Sotheby's in 1967

The Hollywood star, who died last week aged 103, became famous for his portrayal of the "tortured artist"

The Conservative MP for Hertsmere in Hertfordshire replaces Nicky Morgan

Now heading to Maastricht, the painting of a peasant cottage will be a highlight of the Tefaf fair

Plus, Canadian First Nations artist Kent Monkman on his Met paintings and the art of food at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

Emilie Gordenker, from the Mauritshuis, will move from the Golden Age to the birth of Modernism when she takes up her role next week

The incoming director was headhunted for museum posts in Europe and the US but steered clear of the UK "for obvious reasons"

Museum probably paid at least $3m for the widely exhibited sculpture of a horned devil, but the misattributed work may have been made by a Polynesian artist for the European market

The Oslo self-portrait and other paintings have been authenticated by the artist’s museum

The newly attributed work is quite unlike Van Gogh’s other 35 self-portraits and reveals an intriguing insight into his mutilated ear