The right-wing politician, who appeared on the TV programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, replaces Oliver Dowden

Police appealing for information after five items, including a pair of Sèvres vases and a clock with a bronze figure of Apollo, were taken from Uppark on the South Downs

In an extraordinary scene, reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Vincent’s skull was held aloft and moved in 1905

At the ceremony in London, the Ethiopian ambassador renewed calls for museums to return Maqdala objects

Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain

Dresden exhibition will include Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window along with key international loans and works by other Dutch Golden Age artists

Long assumed to be Vincent’s final painting, this foreboding scene is also full of life

Catalogue raisonné rejects unusual part-painting, part-sketch, as expert says the “colonial” nature of the composition is not the artist’s style

Arrested in Dubai, the story of Mafia suspect Raffaele Imperiale confirms long-suspected links between the drugs trade and art theft

Before the discovery of the more than 50 painted blocks, “the richness of Mannaean civilisation had not been appreciated”, expert says

One has been always been hidden away in private collections and will fetch a fortune when it emerges; the other was destroyed by an American bomb

In an exclusive interview with The Art Newspaper, a very well-informed anonymous source tells us how museums are protecting their collections as militants sweep the country

From a brothel garden to Nazi leader Hermann Göring’s fake—all part of the sunflower story

Busby auction house confirms it has "negotiated a settlement" after Ethiopian officials requested the return of items stolen by British troops in a brutal 1868 battle

Monet asked how the artist who made this exuberant masterpiece could possibly be unhappy—and a century later it became the most expensive work at auction

The story of Le Pont de Trinquetaille—with the young female mudlark and the ruffians from the red-light district

National cultural institutions and English Heritage will receive £100m, making up half the losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic

When the gallery reopens on 8 July, visitors will have to book tickets in advance, and will be asked to wear face masks and stay two metres apart

“Tall, dark, rather handsome”, his description of Gauguin in Breton garb

Vincent describes his artist friend as having the “instincts of a wild beast”

The museum is expected to reopen in July or August

The Hollywood star, who died last week aged 103, became famous for his portrayal of the "tortured artist"

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

Why stories—from the mutilated ear to the eventual suicide—can distort our view of the art

Although Tory announcement calls it the “largest cultural capital programme in a century”, pledge is only quarter of Labour’s £1bn culture fund

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats commit to stopping Brexit and protecting arts funding through the National Lottery

One of the works was looted by the Nazis from Jewish collector Jacques Goudstikker, but is now being sold by his heir after restitution

Speculation remains over whether Salvator Mundi will appear

The Praemium Imperiale Award will be presented in Tokyo in October

All the evidence suggests it was the artist who fired the fatal shot