In this photo released by the The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, shows a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh dated 1887. The van Gogh museum says another one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait actually depicts his brother, Theo. Museum spokewsoman Linda Snoek says [...]

The Escape Ladder 1940 – from the Constellations series Joan Miró has long been presented as Surrealism’s child: its painter of innocence, of simplicity, joy and whimsical charm. Perhaps that is why this Tate show is Britain’s first large-scale exhibition of his work in half a century: in the art-world, pain equals importance, and Miró [...]

Nominations have been announced for the Whitechapel gallery’s Max Mara art prize for women, the only award of its kind in the UK. Five of the country’s finest will compete for a six-month residency in Italy, followed by the chance to exhibit at the Whitechapel. From jesmonite hippos to Jabba the Hutt with bimbos, via [...]

A museum staff member presents a previously unknown work by the 17th century Flemish Baroque artist Anthony van Dyck ‘The Virgin and Child with Repentant Sinners’ circa 1625, which the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid discovered in one of its warehouses where the painting had been listed as a copy, in [...]

Robbo’s 1985 piece beneath a bridge across Regent’s Canal in Camden was the oldest surviving graffiti in London. Secured inside a wooden crate and locked in a warehouse is a painting that could cement this city’s reputation as a showcase for avant-garde art. Or as a wasteland waiting to be picked apart.