This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany

Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture

The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor

Rationalising London’s paintings collections

Income from tickets represented about double the average weekly level of voluntary contributions.

The Becket casket and Guercino are just two works of art saved for Britain with money from a Hong Kong lawyer

£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece

Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious

Controversial stately sell-off

A successful show, with record attendance of 409,000 visitors

After much controversy surrounding the archives release, Sir Alan Bowness releases part of the archive to Tate

It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry

A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor

V&A tackles Britain head-on

Unless a small Suffolk church can raise £168,000 to conserve one of the earliest English paintings, it may have to sell it

A commercial company has logged 34,000 looted objects so far

Detailed study of the V&A's Raphael cartoons suggests he painted them as independent works of art

Next month the Belgian city of Ghent is mounting a high-tech search for a panel of Van Eyck's masterpiece missing since 1934

Peace was celebrated in Europe fifty years ago. As The Art Newspaper reaches its fiftieth issue this month, we look at the art of a war-torn world

As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow

The Yorkshire furniture tycoon is one of the most important art and antique collectors in Britain today, but his name is almost unknown

The Art Newspaper has tracked down twenty-four of the drawings looted by Hitler and sold by the prince whose ancestors had donated them to their local museum

After a long, strange journey, the Lubomirski Museum Dürers are now subject to restitutions claims by both Poland and the Ukraine

Despite the sculptor’s wishes, Alan Bowness has failed to hand her papers over to the Tate

The greatest surviving Persian manuscript was swapped for Woman III, once owned by the Shah of Iran

$2.5 million publication covering fifty countries

Opera conceived by Salvador Dalì in 1927 recorded in 1974, is released on CD

Britain’s Foreign Office to support reconstruction of church bombed by Allies