The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, have discovered a painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) underneath the artist’s painting Ravine, owned by the MFA.

An exhibition of 26 paintings and sketchbooks on the theme of the circus and the traveling fair in the work of Jack B. Yeats, has opened in the Yeats Museum of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Two men have been placed under formal investigation in connection with the theft of Pablo Picasso masterpieces from the Paris flat of the artist's granddaughter.

This fall, the Seattle Art Museum will present a 30-year retrospective of the Eastern Washington-based painter Gaylen Hansen (b.1921). Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Painting will include approximately 35 works tracing his evolution as an artist and will be on view at SAM Downtown Oct. 11, 2007 through Jan 6, 2008.

The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present, for the first time, all of the Metropolitan Museum's 228 Dutch paintings (dating mostly from the 1600s), widely considered the greatest collection of Dutch art outside Europe.

Featuring more than 65 paintings, the exhibition will provide a unique opportunity to appreciate the remarkable legacies of two brothers – heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune and native New Yorkers – who played notable but ultimately divergent roles as patrons of the arts in the United States.

Five master paintings from the Louvre’s collection joined the “Kings as Collectors” exhibition at the High. These paintings represent seminal moments in art history ranging from the origination of Louis XIV style to the light-hearted romanticism of the Rococo period.

The Amon Carter Museum will present Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster, an intimate exhibition of the work of one of American’s greatest modernists, from August 18–October 14. Between 1927 and 1933, Charles Demuth (1883–1935) created a series of paintings depicting industrial sites in his hometown of Lancaster, Penn. Today, this landmark body of work represents one of America’s most influential artistic achievements.

The painting of Joseph Wright was acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum with the assistance of a grant from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, and a contribution from the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

“Earl Cunningham’s America” examines the paintings of Earl Cunningham (1893–1977), one of the premier folk artists of the 20th century. The exhibition is on view in Washington from Aug. 10 through Nov. 4; it begins a national tour in 2008.

The Norton Simon Museum presents Alexei Jawlensky (1864–1941), an exhibition featuring more than 100 paintings and works on paper by this renowned 20th-century artist. One of the Blue Four, a group of Expressionist artists represented by dealer Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, Jawlensky and his contemporaries redefined modern art with an innovative artistic philosophy that rejected the idea of an objective reality.

An exhibition featuring 43 modern Chinese paintings and calligraphies assembled by the noted author Lin Yutang (1895-1976) and his family will go on view to the public for the first time at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 15 and runs through February 10, 2008. The collection was recently donated to the Museum by members of the family.