Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Vincent van Gogh

Detroit judge dismisses lawsuit over control of van Gogh art

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over control of an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh

The Independent UK

Judge delays deciding whether to seize Van Gogh painting on loan at Detroit museum

DETROIT — A federal judge Thursday delayed deciding whether to seize an allegedly stolen painting by Vincent van Gogh from the Detroit Institute of Arts and giving the artwork to its purported owner in Brazil, a move that buys time for both sides to negotiate a possible settlement.

Tribune News Service

Detroit museum 'blameless' in van Gogh dispute, judge says

A judge says he hopes a dispute over control of a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh can be settled without entangling a Detroit museum

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

DIA 'misguided' in fight over stolen van Gogh painting, lawyer says

DETROIT — A judge can order Detroit Institute of Arts officials to hand over an allegedly stolen painting by Vincent van Gogh despite a federal law granting the artwork immunity from being seized, a lawyer wrote Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Museum seeks dismissal of lawsuit over van Gogh painting

A Detroit museum displaying a painting by Vincent van Gogh says it shouldn’t be pulled into a dispute over ownership of the multimillion-dollar art

The Independent UK

Van Gogh painting with mysterious past is immune from seizure, Detroit Institute of Arts claims

DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts cannot be forced to relinquish control of a multimillion-dollar painting by Vincent van Gogh at the center of a federal lawsuit because the artwork is protected by a federal law granting immunity to foreign artwork on display in the United States, the museum's…

Tribune News Service

'How do you just lose a painting like that?': Detroit museum packed in wake of van Gogh controversy

DETROIT — Cheryle Van Wert said she can't fathom how a $5 million Vincent van Gogh painting could have disappeared for six years before turning up at the Detroit Institute of Arts — but she said she drove 100 miles Sunday from Saginaw to the museum to see for herself…

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Judge blocks Detroit museum officials from concealing Van Gogh in international fight

DETROIT — A federal judge Wednesday blocked Detroit Institute of Arts officials from moving or hiding a painting by Vincent van Gogh, less than 24 hours after a company that claims ownership sued the museum, saying the artwork had been missing for nearly six years until it was discovered on…

Tribune News Service

Judge tells Detroit museum: Don't move van Gogh painting

A judge has ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh

The Independent UK

Oakland woman claims New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art secretly sold her grandma’s Nazi-stolen van Gogh

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An Oakland woman last week sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, claiming it bought then secretly sold a Vincent van Gogh painting the Nazis stole from her grandmother.

Tribune News Service

Climate activists guilty of criminal damage over Van Gogh painting glue protest

Just Stop Oil supporters Emily Brocklebank, 24, and Louis McKechnie, 22, guilty of causing just under £2,000 of criminal damage

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil protesters caused nearly £2,000 of damage to Vincent Van Gogh painting

Emily Brocklebank, 23, and Louis McKechnie, 22, caused just under £2,000 of criminal damage to the 1889 work Peach Trees In Blossom at the Courtauld Gallery in London on June 30

Manchester Evening News

Climate activist tells court Van Gogh may have agreed with painting protest

Just Stop Oil supporters Emily Brocklebank, 24, and Louis McKechnie, 22, have been found guilty of causing just under £2,000 of criminal damage.

The Independent UK

Eco-activists underestimate damage protests do to artworks, museums warn

Nearly 100 of the world's most famous museums issued a joint declaration on Thursday saying environmental activists who attack paintings to draw attention to climate change "severely underestimate" the damage that could be caused.

Radio France Internationale

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Climate Protesters Splatter Van Gogh in Rome with Pea Soup

Environmental activists tossed pea soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting Friday in Rome to protest carbon use and natural gas extraction, but caused no damage to the glass-covered painting. Security intervened immediately and removed the protesters kneeling in front of “The Sower” at the Palazzo Bonaparte to deliver a…

Evening Standard

Who is Last Generation? The climate activists who threw potatoes at Monet

Protest comes nine days after Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting

The Guardian - AU

If you don’t like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organise something better

It’s far better to speak too loud than to remain silent. With the environmental catastrophe accelerating day by day, activism has never been more important

Asharq Al-Awsat

UK Police Charge Two Women after Soup Thrown at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

Two women have been charged with criminal damage after climate change protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s painting "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery, British police said on Saturday. A video posted by the Just Stop Oil campaign group, which has been holding protests for the last two weeks in…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

UK police charge two women after soup thrown at van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'

The Guardian - UK

‘It was terrifying’: Stop Oil activists on the new battle against fossil fuel

An end to new oil and gas projects remains a key demand, but protesters now want taxes on big polluters and basic energy for all

Tribune News Service

News briefs

‘A crime may have been committed’ in Parkland trial jury room, prosecutors say

France 24

Climate activists target art: Van Gogh’s masterpiece “Sunflowers” defaced

Environmental protesters threw tomato soup over one of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings at London's National Gallery on Friday, in the latest "direct-action" stunt targeting works of art.

Evening Standard

Where is the Van Gogh sunflower painting and why was it attacked?

A can of tomato soup was thrown at Vincent Van Gogh’s historic Sunflowers painting

Daily Record

Who are Just Stop Oil as activists throw soup over £76m Van Gogh painting

Just Stop Oil claim its supporters are engaging in an 'act of resistance' against a criminal government.

WEKU

Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting in London

Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.

1 … 4 5 6 7

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Westminster Magistrates Court

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Detroit Institute of Arts

12 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.