The Art Newspaper
New centre for sculpture conservation in Liverpool
Brain drain from the V&A
Enigma by Clifford Irving delves into the fakes and forgeries of Elmyr de Hory
Over 20 years after it was originally written, Irving's book finally sees the sun
Leonardo prize for dealer sleuths
The Accademia Italiana announces award in conjunction with fair
The Yugoslav National Army has caused serious destruction to Sibenic cathedral, churches, castles and historic buildings in Croatia while attempting to divide their territory
The Minister for Education and Culture sends list of destruction to Unesco and invokes the 1954 Hague Convention
New exhibition on Cola dell’ Amatrice, a Raphaelesque shrinking violet
The exhibition at he Pinacoteca Civica di Palazzo Arringo is open until 15 October
Roberto Burle Marx as the first landscape gardener to be exhibited by MoMA
The New York gallery shows gardens are art too
The National Trust’s 6000 paintings on microfiche
Large, unpublished collections now available
Centrox and Thesaurus offer new tech services to dealers and collectors
The art market at the touch of a button
Police investigation finds Diego Giacometti's foundry grossed £14 million from unauthorised bronzes cast after his death
The "posthumous" sculptures passed through the hands several leading auction houses in Paris
The collector who ushered the Impressionists into the Louvre
A collection of works donated to the nation by Etienne Moreau-Nélaton on display at the Grand Palais
Benin bronzes take limelight at sales of tribal art in London
Tribal art expected to do well at upcoming sales
Los Angeles' County Museum of Art to hold exhibition of French Art sourced from Southern Californian collections
Monet, Renoir and Picasso will be some of the big names represented in the show, opening 9 June
Art Basel's coordinators prioritise market over culture
No more free champagne at the 22nd Art fair, from 12 to 17 June
Unfamiliar early Rauschenbergs at the Corcoran
A broad range of rarely exhibited works tour the US
A gallery with a new vision of Chinese art opens at the V&A this month
Daring to say “This is rare and beautiful” in new V&A Chinese gallery
National Galleries of Scotland buy a Leonardo and Picasso on a purchase grant of just £1.65 million p.a.
They are also improving their Surrealism holdings
Official Soviet circles consider the return to the West of World War II art treasures
Glasnost has unveiled the ill kept secret of thousands of works of art, of archives and libraries taken to the USSR
US returns bell taken as trophy of war to Japan
The temple bell was taken from a Japanese island by American marines at the end of World War II
Number of sites protected by Unesco has increased, and campaign to raise money to protect them is launched
The safeguarding of these places of global, cultural importance will increase
Ancient city inside Iraqi airbase, Ur of the Chaldees, narrowly avoids annihilation by US forces
Attack on ziggurat stopped by unknown American officer
New gallery of Korean Art at the V&A
A space for over 600 decorative arts objects
The Amerbach Kunstkabinett lives again as one of the greatest Renaissance collections reunites for three months
The stunning assemblage contains works by many Northern masters, including both the elder and younger Holbeins
French and Russians come together over Malevich in cooperative workshops and lectures, entitled "Playing Malevich"
The group of Lille and Soviet artists, designers, and architects will collaborate to produce an original culture park
The full text of the Hague convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict (1954)
Neither the U.S.A. nor G.B. have ratified it, despite having insisted, with Turkey, on the inclusion of an exemption clause for military necessity
Order, imagination and technology at the new Ringling Museum
After rebuilding work lasting ten years and costing $20 million, the Ringling Museum has been reopened to the public.
Stolen Benin bronze found in Zürich
Stolen from Jos, Nigeria, Benin bronze turns up in Zürich auction house
New branch of Sotheby’s to be located in Basel
Ruedi Staechelin appointed leadership role
Excavating a new temple of Solomon despite the war
Dig continues at Ain Dara to uncover a temple almost identical to that described in the Bible