Highlight shows in Chicago, Paris and Amsterdam—plus a 50th birthday celebration for the Van Gogh Museum

Britain’s longest-serving monarch died at Balmoral, her private estate in Aberdeenshire. During her reign she oversaw the opening up of the Royal Collection to the public and to art history

Analysis of The Milkmaid ahead of a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum suggests he worked much faster than previously assumed

Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City

The story of an unknown register of patients is in my “Starry Night” book, out in paperback this month

If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum

The National Gallery of Art has carried out scientific tests on the works, finding fascinating discoveries beneath the paint

The x-ray will be displayed in a lightbox in the forthcoming exhibition A Taste for Impressionism at National Galleries of Scotland

Barry Joule disputes gallery’s claim that trove of sketches and documents, which he donated, was "unsuitable for retention"

The head of Eros—which has been held by the London institution for 90 years—has been reunited with its sarcophagus at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum

The initiative marks 30 years of formal cultural relations between the two countries

“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” at the National Gallery will be presented in themes, tracing the story of his stay in Provence

Star loans include The Bedroom, Garden of the Asylum and—of course—the exhibition will show the museum's own Sunflowers

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