Plus, US photographer of queer women, Alice Austen; and Michel Majerus at Art Basel

A book and exhibition will reveal surprising facts about some of the artist’s best-loved motifs

A bicentenary renovation project makes the London museum play a tricky game of musical chairs with its collection

And why was “Vincent’s Chair” sold to London’s National Gallery in the 1920s, while “Gauguin’s Chair” was hidden away?

A thousand documents and sketches from the Barry Joule collection to be deaccessioned by London museum over attribution doubts

British Council has so far failed to get extra emergency funding to save ravaged heritage

Although his paintings now fetch millions, during his lifetime he perhaps ended up pricing them too high

The London gallery has quietly stopped describing its head, Jennifer Scott, as 'the Sackler Director'

Three cultural figures have been appointed Companions of Honour, the highest award, including the art critic Marina Warner

Hoard of medieval metalwork had been illegally mailed to the UK, and will be sent to Kyiv museum when safe to do so

Among the pieces are the first Fabergé Egg and a golden cigarette box made for the Rothschild family, which were both acquired by the oligarch Viktor Vekselberg

Vincent painted this powerful work just outside the walls of his asylum

The £135m development is designed by Herzog & de Meuron

Ferdinand Marcos, the former president, and his wife Imelda owned one of Vincent’s peasant scenes. Did it end up in Japan?

These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away

The return of the Easter Egg on loan to the UK from Viktor Vekselberg’s Panamanian company could well now be complicated

Now in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, a restitution claim for the work has been submitted to the Spoliation Advisory Panel

Online articles by staff at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine show how items resonate with the war-torn country

Vincent’s note to his artist friend Emile Bernard is to be included in an exhibition of the Springer Collection at Madrid’s Thyssen Museum

Retrospective opens at the Art Institute of Chicago this month and travels to Tate in October

Of course Sunflowers is included, along with some surprises—and another on the way

Peach Trees in Blossom was inspired by Vincent’s love of Japanese prints

Why did Vincent paint “Poplars near Nuenen” on top of an earlier picture of a church? And was the final picture touched up after he discovered Impressionism in Paris?

The show “Van Gogh in America” opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts in October

Vincent writes philosophically about his mental illness, a year after mutilating his ear

The artist’s imprint was probably left when he carried the picture back to the asylum

Vincent’s beloved bloom will eventually flourish again in the war-torn country

Cathedral building has suffered external damage as bombs land 50m away

A buyer has until 10 July to start raising the funds to keep the 18th-century painting in the country—but it is unlikely any cash-strapped national museum can afford the hefty price tag

Vincent declared that a cartoon in Punch magazine was greater than Holbein's Dance of Death