Martin Bailey
London's Van Gogh self-portraits show is coming—here are my six favourite paintings
The Courtauld exhibition will be the first ever with works from Vincent’s full career, opening on 3 February
A surreal encounter between Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud is the topic of a new Viennese show
The Lower Belvedere exhibition will explore how the Spanish artist's work was influenced by the inventor of psychoanalysis
The mind-blowing Van Gogh gallery that never was
What happened to the 1923 plan for a Grand Museum to house the collection of Helene Kröller-Müller
New York’s Metropolitan Museum buys four extremely rare Van Gogh prints
Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million
Van Gogh back on the road: major exhibitions coming in 2022
With shows in London, Vienna, four American cities and of course Amsterdam—I choose the highlight of the year
A flying visitation: presence of life-size insect in Dürer painting puzzles experts
Early copy of The Feast of the Rose Garlands in National Gallery exhibition includes a fly on the lap of the Virgin
Ethiopia's oldest icon may be the work of an Italian master
An artist from Siena could have travelled to Africa in the 14th century to create triptych, which is in a remote monastery in northern Ethiopia
What a year for Van Gogh: surprise discoveries, record prices and a boom in immersive experiences
From insects trapped in paint and Vincent's support of a brass band to the scene depicted in his final picture—plus it was suicide (not murder)
From NFTs to LFTs: 2021's biggest art stories—and what they mean
The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars
Van Gogh gets a facelift: conservation of self-portrait to be revealed in London
The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition
Rijksmuseum discovers 'the genesis' of Rembrandt’s Night Watch
Original sketch has been revealed beneath the paint, shedding light on the Dutch master's intention—but worrying deterioration of the famous picture has also been found
Golden hats, celestial discs and circles of wood and stone: British Museum reveals treasures in Stonehenge show
Exhibition 'The World of Stonehenge'—opening in February 2022—presents the site in the context of Bronze Age Europe
The secret behind Van Gogh’s satirical herring still life: they represent policemen
Vincent told his artist friend Paul Signac that the fish stood for the gendarmes who hassled him after he mutilated his ear
Biggest ever Vermeer show to take place at the Rijksmuseum in 2023—and it will include the Girl with the Pearl Earring
The Amsterdam museum will rival the Mauritshuis's 1996 exhibition by bringing together more than 23 of the Dutch master's rare paintings
Revealed: Larry Ellison, the world’s seventh richest person, has collected at least four Van Goghs
The Oracle Corporation co-founder owns the painting that hung above J.F. Kennedy’s hotel bed on the morning of his assassination—and the president’s final telephone call was about Van Gogh
Declassified: secret papers reveal UK government's stance on Parthenon Marbles dispute
Newly released documents from the 1990s state: "This is an issue on which we can never win"
Big money, new collectors: the low-down on the New York auctions
Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer
Unknown Dürer drawing—bought for just $30 at a house clearance—could sell for $50m at London gallery
The US family who owned it believed it was a 20th-century reproduction
Van Gogh and friends: new show in Ohio puts Vincent alongside masters such as Rembrandt, Hokusai and Monet
But is it one exhibition or two? Surprisingly, Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources will be quite different when it travels next year to California
Four Van Goghs go for $161m in one evening in New York—double their Christie’s estimates
For the artist who failed to sell during his lifetime, there is now a surge in the market for Vincent’s late paintings
Prado museum downgrades Leonardo's $450m Salvator Mundi in exhibition catalogue
Publication for Mona Lisa show puts the painting in category of works that are attributed to, or authorised or supervised by the Renaissance master
Running at 7%: Tate Modern's visitors slumped from 5.7 million at its peak to just 361,000 in 2020/21
Annual financial accounts show extent of fall in visitor numbers at national museums
London’s National Gallery reveals slavery history in new research—including its founder’s ties to Caribbean
The data, published today, found 67 individuals connected to the slave trade including John Julius Angerstein who helped to establish the museum's collection
The astonishing survival of the farmhouse depicted in Van Gogh’s newly unveiled watercolour
Vincent’s picture of wheatstacks is coming up at Christie’s on 11 November—yours for around $25m
Van Gogh’s favourite artists: how did they influence his own work?
Steven Naifeh, co-author of the best-selling biography, writes about the painters Vincent admired—and collects their pictures
Fragonard’s The Swing has been restored—and it's saucier than ever
The great Rococo painting in the Wallace Collection in London has been cleaned, revealing some mischievous details
Ancient gold ewer returned to Turkey after V&A expert links it to illicit antiquities trade
The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum
Another insect discovered in a Van Gogh painting—and this time it has left behind a trail
Show opening in Dallas and travelling to Amsterdam reveals findings from three-year international research project into Vincent's olive grove pictures
Very dishy: small bowl in British Museum revealed to be extremely rare Chinese imperial ceramic
Previously thought to be Korean, the brush washer has been newly identified as being nearly 1,000 years old and manufactured at the imperial Ru kiln
Stunning $30m Van Gogh watercolour resurfaces at Christie’s New York following complex behind-the-scenes deal
The auction house—which estimates the painting at $30m—helped broker a deal between the seller and the descendants of two Jewish families who had it in the Nazi era