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 [...]

Egypt plans to set up a security control room to monitor all museums after the theft of a $55 million Vincent van Gogh painting in Cairo, Zahi Hawass, head of the country’s antiquities agency said today. Culture Minister Faruq Hosni also has formed a committee to review security measures after the theft at the Mohamed [...]

Detail from Self-Portrait 1889, by Vincent Van Gogh The title of the Royal Academy’s groundbreaking new show, The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters, signals the intention of the curators to dispense with the myth of the madman touched with genius, to present instead the art of a consummate professional. From the first [...]

This latest theory about Paul Gauguin slicing off Vincent van Gogh’s ear with a fencing foil is highly implausible Misunderstood and undervalued … Self-portrait with Palette c 1894 by Paul Gauguin. Poor Vincent; he gets no rest. If it isn’t a new film or TV drama about the tragic genius who ended his extraordinary life [...]

Vincent van Gogh “Landscape at Twilight” (1890) On paper, at least, “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” at the Museum of Modern Art reads like an obvious play for big box office and increased membership. But this exhibition largely dodges such charges and instead quietly displays 23 paintings, 9 drawings and several letters [...]

A portrait stashed in a bank vault in Athens could be the last painting Vincent van Gogh produced, according to some art experts and collectors who are attempting to determine the authenticity of the picture found among the possessions of a Greek world war two resistance fighter. The discovery of the work, along with a [...]

Four paintings by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas and Monet worth an estimated SFR180m (£84m) have been stolen from a museum in Switzerland, police said today. Zurich police said Cezanne’s Boy in the Red Waistcoat, Monet’s Poppy Field at Vetheuil, Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter, by Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh’s Blooming Chestnut Branches were [...]