Nineteen of the accused in Operation Demetra face trial in December, while the alleged UK mastermind awaits extradition

"There is great fear now within Saudi Arabia, with even stricter self-censorship than before"

Rashid Al Khalifa of Bahrain is showing his art in London’s Saatchi Gallery

Vatican conference on preventive conservation warns of environmental impact of short-term politics

Civilians will be allowed to enter your house, break open containers and use “reasonable force”

The Italian state has a permanent right to confiscate illegally exported work

The Venice Glass Week is a city-wide collaboration between museums, commercial galleries and artisans of Murano

Toledo government hopes for “El Greco” effect from this 15-year loan of late 19th- and 20th-century works

A spokesman for Traffic, the leading researchers of trade in endangered species, says it is the Asian market that drives the poaching, not the Western market

Excavation tells a poignant story of an unfortunate Roman

It’s affordable, good quality, unspeculative—and the wine is great

Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers

France's latest deal with the Kingdom reveals the close connection between culture and foreign affairs

Norman Foster is among the roster of international architects

Emilia Kabakov discusses the duo’s past in the USSR and their aim to stop it defining how they are perceived as artists

Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor and chairman, looks back

Stop the press!

This is the view of a former Getty chief, who says the problems of the Serenissima are a paradigm for other historic cities

Minds from the Middle Eastern art world and beyond discussed topics such as urban planning and art and ecology

Back in 1982, these ceramic specialists realised that top curators and hot research brought in the collectors. Today, they’re still keeping the flame of knowledge alive

Buccaneering, brilliant, art-loving—he created the power of Sotheby’s (and Christie’s learned by imitation)

The splendid Nabatean site of Mada’in Saleh may be opened to tourists

MoMa hosts announcement of his Misk Art Institute, led by artist Ahmed Mater

New London show has received glowing reviews but there is one conspicuous absentee

Digital technologies are at the heart of a declaration by major museums and heritage organisations to record and sometimes reproduce works of art

The Google Cultural Institute’s We Wear Culture fashion stories are its latest museum collaboration, its director Amit Sood tells us.

The pharaonic new museum will not make up for misguided policies

Recently identified buyer of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi is planning a pavilion at the Venice Biennale, art teaching in schools, international exhibitions, archaeology and virtual reality

Gesture consolidates close political alliance between Saudi Arabia and the UAE

The Italian government’s latest decision is in hock to the port’s own interests