Prime minister takes the unusual step of pledging $200,000 to the US museum

Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is among 58 works going on a Japanese tour this autumn

From his mother to his partners, the UK's new prime minister has been surrounded by people in the arts

Cabinet of curiosities cannot go to US because of tough ivory regulations

The show, which borrows works from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, travels from San Francisco’s De Young Museum where it closed in June

Major exhibition at the Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands will show latest research in the confusing identity saga as Amsterdam museum renames work

While Boris Johnson describes himself as a keen painter and Jeremy Hunt spent time as culture minister, the sector is likely to remain far down the agenda

The astonishing tale of Jan Traas, a caretaker and intern conservator in the 1920s, who later worked on Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring

The Van Gogh Museum’s masterpiece has suffered from a 1960s restoration which involved the insertion of three long metal bolts

The discovery of the revolver suggests it was suicide, not murder

The Trojan antiquities went to Berlin after the London museum rejected an offer to acquire them

By coincidence, both pictures ended up at New York’s MoMA, which is now planning a redisplay

Gary Hume says funding for the arts is 'outweighed by the need to act urgently on the climate crisis'

Little known letter says he feared “a fatal and tragic accident” in the Yellow House

There will be a rash of shows on the Renaissance master, the largest will be in Rome

Follow in the artist’s footsteps and discover the places that inspired his greatest paintings

The uncovered figure changes the composition of Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

Tahitian still lifes of sunflowers are surrogate portraits of his Yellow House friend

Country has requested return of 11 tabots held in sealed storeroom that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes should only be viewed by its priests

Largely overlooked postscript suggests surprise friendship between the Van Gogh brothers and the young Belgian

Christie’s values the Japanese-influenced picture of the asylum garden at $25m

There has been intense competition to borrow works by the artist during the 500th anniversary of his death this year

Lucien Pissarro’s sketch in Tate Britain exhibition is the only depiction of the two brothers together

We speak to the authors of two new books: Ben Lewis about Leonardo; and Martin Bailey about Van Gogh. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Northern Ireland's HMS Caroline and V&A Dundee among five finalists for the Art Fund's annual prize

My new book recounts the untold tragedy of how Sien Hoornik drowned herself in a Rotterdam canal

Conservation at the Amsterdam museum has revealed a fake Vincent signature on the genuine seascape

The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting