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Statens Museum for Kunst assesses how Northern Europeans interpreted Japan

Japanomania returns once more to Copenhagen as the exhibition looks at how Nordic artists used Japanese art in their own work

Owner of Zoffany painting destroyed in fire could receive £4m from UK government

Clandon Park, a country mansion in Surrey, was severely damaged by blaze in 2015

Icom issues Red List to counter trade in looted West African antiquities

Malian cultural heritage at biggest risk in wake of Islamist rebel attacks

Portrait of Oscar Wilde to return to UK for first time in nearly a century

Writer was forced to sell his prized painting when he went bankrupt during gross indecency trial

'A black nightmare': Palmyra attacked by Isil militants

Fears grow over fate of ancient Syrian site which suffered disastrous destruction during last occupation by extremists

London's National Portrait Gallery to host first major exhibition of Cézanne's portraits

Show will open at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in summer 2017, travel to London that autumn, then head to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

Royal Academy to reassemble Charles I’s art for blockbuster anniversary show

Organised with the Royal Collection, the 2018 exhibition should feature paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Titian and Mantegna owned by the ill-fated Stuart monarch

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Remains of Gauguin’s father found near Tierra del Fuego

Scientists matched DNA from the artist’s teeth with bones belonging to Clovis Gauguin—and confirmed the ancestry of Paul’s grandson

Does charging help or hurt regional museums?

Attendance declines dramatically at York Art Gallery after admission fee is introduced

Van Gogh Museum criticises experts for 'easygoing attitude' towards authentication

Amsterdam institution has released another statement condemning sketchbook attributed to Van Gogh

London version of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe predates the bigger picture in Paris

Research supports theory that Courtauld’s painting is preparatory sketch for version in the Musée d'Orsay

National Gallery's acquisition of Pontormo portrait under threat

London institution raised more than £30m to buy it, but fall in pound’s value may be presenting a new obstacle

Van Gogh Museum rejects artist's 'lost sketchbook'

Experts at odds over attribution to painter of 65 drawings to be published in new book

Ancient Nimrud ziggurat bulldozed by Isil

Islamic extremists razed massive 2,900-year-old Assyrian structure to the ground

Looted Constable returned by Tate heads to auction at Christie’s

Heirs of Hungarian baron are selling Beaching a Boat, Brighton

Remains of Paul Gauguin’s father found off Antarctica

Clovis Gauguin died at the Chilean fort of Fuerte Bulnes after fleeing France with his children

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Remembering the ‘mud angels’

The Italian floods of 1966 prompted a strong—and lasting—international response

The hunt for Van Gogh’s bed

A new book reveals the journey of the artist’s famous furniture from Arles to a town near Arnhem in 1945

National Gallery director says $30m Matisse portrait 'not Nazi-looted art'

Heirs of Greta Moll are demanding London museum returns painting of their grandmother

Benin bronze, sold off by British Museum in 1950, returns to market

But the 16th-century plaque, which has been substantially restored, failed to find a buyer

Cultural impact of Brexit revealed in new report

Funding gap and future of EU nationals among creative industry’s key concerns

How the Townley Venus's thumb was knocked off at the British Museum

One of institution's most important sculptures, now restored, was damaged by external catering team setting up for corporate event

Burrell’s world tour struggles to get beyond Glasgow

Scottish museum hoped to raise £15m for renovation fund but international venues are proving hard to secure

London’s National Gallery close to buying £30m Pontormo portrait

Treasury agrees tax refund to help keep painting from going to America

British Museum dreams big with new show of American prints

Exhibition next year reflects on the impact of the US through works by artists such as Ed Ruscha and Robert Rauschenberg