New details on “the most famous weapon in art history”

We examine the growing unease among British museums about accepting money from Sackler family members linked to the sale of the opioid OxyContin, and look at 2018's most visited shows and museums with Met director Max Hollein. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Discovered after 165 years, eight of the 19 paintings will be included in the London exhibition in September

London institution has acquired 600 objects thanks to funding from Japan Tobacco International, makers of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut

At Eternity’s Gate, based on the Dutch artist’s life, is released in the UK today

Did the Dutch artist fall for his Brixton landlady or her daughter?

Plus, Nan Goldin's show at the National Portrait Gallery is expected to go ahead after the trust and London museum decided not to proceed with a £1m grant

Still life at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, is authenticated after decades hidden in storage

The two locks will be buried at the monastery where emperor Tewodros' body was interred

Mutual decision comes amid controversy over trust's connection to Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, a prescription painkiller linked to the opioid crisis

Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia rooms open with support from UK government's Cultural Protection Fund

Mysterious papers were found during the restoration of the south London house in Hackford Road where the Dutchman lodged

Owned by a British collector for almost 70 years, the work showing Charing Cross Bridge has gone abroad

A tribute to Theo van Gogh’s grandson, who served in the Dutch secret service

Self-portrait with Two Circles at Kenwood House is the charity’s greatest painting, along with a Vermeer

The review of the ‘tsantsas’ is part of a wider exercise looking at the Pitt Rivers Museum’s historic labels

Hair was cut from the emperor Tewodros's body after he committed suicide following defeat at the battle of Maqdala in 1868

British artist's exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum opens this week

First 1,000 entries were published today

Memories of the artist from the son of the founder of London’s Horniman Museum uncovered in archival letters

The late artist wanted to use a work by the Dutch master as inspiration for one of his final paintings

James Manson paid homage to the Dutch artist by painting his own bouquet

We speak to the general director of the Dutch museum ahead of its exhibition on "all" of the works by the master in its collection

Painters from Brangwyn to Nash paid homage to the masterpiece, all illustrated on the Art UK site

The still life of fruit and chestnuts, until recently dismissed as a fake, was painted in Paris

Di-faced Tenner is artist’s first work to join the collection officially—unlike his 2005 cave painting prank

Reliefs from Ashurnasirpal II’s Nimrud palace, fixed to the walls of a Scottish mansion, have been removed, stripped and sold abroad

The mark is “the most convincing candidate for an authentic Leonardo fingerprint” among the Queen’s 550 works by the great artist

Conservators are concerned over Van Gogh’s still life, which went to over 80 exhibitions after the war

New research centre project means South Korean motor company is now probably the largest corporate sponsor of visual arts for UK museums