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

An intriguing letter suggests that Vincent made a very unusual sale to England

Exhibition on rediscovered 17th-century artist, which includes rare loans, is due to open in London in April

Satellite venue of historic Albertina is to focus on Austrian and international art made after 1945

Unseen for 25 years, they all come from a very private American collector

Experts believe underdrawing in St Stephen’s is first evidence that the master worked in the Austrian capital

Discovery in Vienna's St Stephen's cathedral was made with photographs taken through a small hole in the marble

Lead curator says relaunch next spring is timely as "the UK is reassessing its role on the European and global stage”

The top exhibitions, books and auction news this year—plus the astonishing tale of the gun

The Finding of Moses is on display, but it will soon be moved to the newly refurbished Baroque room

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

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

One painting was hidden in a Parma cellar, leading to the discovery of the Tanzi Treasure

We look back at the major events that made the headlines this year

Zahi Hawass, former Egyptian minister of antiquities, corrals international team of experts to press institutions for return of important artefacts

Why stories—from the mutilated ear to the eventual suicide—can distort our view of the art

Te Bourao II, which went to an international collector, was on loan to the Met in New York for ten years

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

New exhibition highlights works from the museum's Gilbert Collection that have unclear provenance during the Nazi era

Revelations were made during research for the largest retrospective of the Dutch painter's work in the Netherlands

The still life in Switzerland’s Reinhart collection was dismissed as a forgery

Statue of a cockerel was looted by the British in 1897 from the Court of Benin

Although Tory announcement calls it the “largest cultural capital programme in a century”, pledge is only quarter of Labour’s £1bn culture fund

Masterpiece from London's National Gallery is headed for Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia

In Tahiti, years later, Gauguin recalled the flower which stinks of rotting flesh

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats commit to stopping Brexit and protecting arts funding through the National Lottery