Martin Bailey
Are three heads better than one? How to run a museum as a collective
Curatorial group WHW (What, How & for Whom), who are joint directors of Vienna’s Kunsthalle, on their experimental approach to museum leadership and exhibitions
India asks Ashmolean Museum to return 15th-century bronze idol believed stolen from temple
Independent scholar uncovers questionable provenance for the sculpture that the Oxford institution bought from Sotheby's in 1967
Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh in 1950s film Lust for Life: a look at the biopic and the myths it made
The Hollywood star, who died last week aged 103, became famous for his portrayal of the "tortured artist"
Cabinet reshuffle: Oliver Dowden appointed new UK culture secretary
The Conservative MP for Hertsmere in Hertfordshire replaces Nicky Morgan
The €15m Van Gogh which was once sold in a farmyard auction for just £4
Now heading to Maastricht, the painting of a peasant cottage will be a highlight of the Tefaf fair
The story of a fake Gauguin at the Getty
Plus, Canadian First Nations artist Kent Monkman on his Met paintings and the art of food at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
Wooing Dutch visitors and an impending birthday: the challenges facing Van Gogh Museum's new director
Emilie Gordenker, from the Mauritshuis, will move from the Golden Age to the birth of Modernism when she takes up her role next week
Van Gogh Museum's Emilie Gordenker ruled out UK jobs because of Brexit
The incoming director was headhunted for museum posts in Europe and the US but steered clear of the UK "for obvious reasons"
Bedevilled: multi-million Getty Gauguin is a fake
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
Nine Van Gogh 'fakes' that have emerged as the real thing
The Oslo self-portrait and other paintings have been authenticated by the artist’s museum
Not a fake: Van Gogh self-portrait is his only work painted while suffering psychosis, experts say
The newly attributed work is quite unlike Van Gogh’s other 35 self-portraits and reveals an intriguing insight into his mutilated ear
Is a Van Gogh self-portrait hidden in a London attic?
An intriguing letter suggests that Vincent made a very unusual sale to England
Sticking it to the man: first look at 'feminist icon' Artemisia Gentileschi's works for National Gallery show
Exhibition on rediscovered 17th-century artist, which includes rare loans, is due to open in London in April
Will new €50m Albertina Modern museum revolutionise Vienna’s contemporary art scene?
Satellite venue of historic Albertina is to focus on Austrian and international art made after 1945
Want to buy a Van Gogh? Sotheby’s has four works with (relatively) modest estimates
Unseen for 25 years, they all come from a very private American collector
Possible Dürer discovered above souvenir shop in Vienna's cathedral
Experts believe underdrawing in St Stephen’s is first evidence that the master worked in the Austrian capital
Like ‘Tutankhamun’s tomb’: first look inside emperor's sepulchre in 500 years reveals magnificent treasures
Discovery in Vienna's St Stephen's cathedral was made with photographs taken through a small hole in the marble
The Met’s British galleries are radically reimagined for museum's 150th anniversary
Lead curator says relaunch next spring is timely as "the UK is reassessing its role on the European and global stage”
From surprising sales to emotional discoveries: the Van Gogh stories of 2019
The top exhibitions, books and auction news this year—plus the astonishing tale of the gun
Christmas comes early: London's National Gallery raises enough money to buy Gentileschi masterpiece
The Finding of Moses is on display, but it will soon be moved to the newly refurbished Baroque room
Nicky Morgan—who stood down in UK election to spend more time with her family—is reappointed as culture secretary
Boris Johnson gives former MP a peerage in order to keep her in the cabinet, but survival of culture department in the longer term is not assured
Climate protest designs, an authentic Banksy fake and radical collection updates: the year in acquisitions
Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019
Two Van Goghs sold from the recovered hoard of an Italian fraudster
One painting was hidden in a Parma cellar, leading to the discovery of the Tanzi Treasure
From a Paris inferno to the Leonardo tussle: the art world's top stories of 2019
We look back at the major events that made the headlines this year
Archaeologist launches private bid to retrieve priceless Egyptian treasures from European museums
Zahi Hawass, former Egyptian minister of antiquities, corrals international team of experts to press institutions for return of important artefacts
Ten myths about Vincent van Gogh
Why stories—from the mutilated ear to the eventual suicide—can distort our view of the art
Rare Tahitian painting by Gauguin sells for €9.5m at Artcurial in Paris
Te Bourao II, which went to an international collector, was on loan to the Met in New York for ten years
The UK's culture secretary conveyor belt: who will be next?
As the election looms this month and Nicky Morgan announces she is standing down, the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport prepares for its latest secretary of state
Who owned these Jewish-owned treasures? V&A seeks clues from public
New exhibition highlights works from the museum's Gilbert Collection that have unclear provenance during the Nazi era
Artist's signature and thumbprint among discoveries in Pieter de Hooch paintings
Revelations were made during research for the largest retrospective of the Dutch painter's work in the Netherlands