The Art Newspaper

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

Baselarchive

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

What's on: Real fakes

Rotonda della Besana, Milan

Looted artarchive

How forces invading Iraq neglected to make provisions for heritage sites

Unlike in World War II, no commission exists to advise the military

What's on in Los Angeles: Transport art and anti-war protest

With a notable appearance by Marie Raymond, mother of Yves Klein and a talented artist in her own right

Furore over sale of Dalí rights to British financial group

Henry Ansbacher is said to have paid $15m (£7.5m) for the Spaniard’s copyright

Art marketarchive

Lenin gazes into an uncertain future

While Russia tears down the images of Communism, there is a market in Germany for former artists of the regime

Newsarchive

French war booty surfaces in East Berlin

The Musées de France knew about it for nearly twenty years

The art of Forties America at the MoMA

Exploring the influence of immigrants and how the world moved on from the war

Mona Lisa mystery finally solved: The sitter is indisputably Lisa del Giocondo

And not Isabella d’Este, Pacifica Brandano, Costanza d’Avalos, a cumulative female image—or Leonardo in drag

Tatearchive

Ro-Tate: Tate's rehang success with 1,500,000 visitors in attendance

It’s all change at the Tate Gallery, as part of Nick Serota’s policy of rotating the collections

What's on in Switzerland: Good Rothko and Mark Tobey shows

In a quiet month a chance to see some classic modern art

Forgeriesarchive

Matisse forgeries in the market is nothing new

Dealers fear more forged prints may emerge

Museumsarchive

A flood of pictures for MoMA as collector William S. Paley dies

The bequest, one of the largest in the museum's history, includes three of Gertrude Stein’s Picassos

Economicsarchive

Spain debates new legislation that attempts to induce sponsorship of the arts with tax cuts

If the law is passed, sponsors will be granted legal provisions so they might better circumvent obstacles that complicate art funding

Jewelleryarchive

International Silver and Jewellery Fair exhibition examines royal jewellery: real, revived and faked

“Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen Scots: History and Myth” is on show, along with several groundbreaking seminars

Jennifer Mundy argues conservative art can also be good art: On Jane Lee's new Derain monograph

The Tate curator discusses moving on from Fauvism and the relationship between originality and quality

Three expressive exhibitions at the Tate of the North

Die Brücke, “New Light on Sculpture”, and Richard Long now on at Tate Liverpool

Work of the revolutionary Russian artist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) is currently showing in Los Angeles, then coming to New York

The exhibition draws works from galleries and museums across the globe to display a chronological retrospective

Spate of Spanish art fakes recently discovered in the market

Watch out for Millares, Chillida, Domìnguez and Barceló. Interpol find “French connection”

Italyarchive

Milan to be Italy's candidate for the European Agency for the Environment

Plans to replace Milan with Venice as a candidate have been scrapped

Gallery owner Cannaviello plans a broad-ranging Modern art museum in Milan

It would be the first to be run as a plc, with works of art as its capital base and private collectors as its shareholders

Baselarchive

Nauman's retrospective in Basel brings social madness to light

The exhibition, in which psychological unrest is registered through the body, will appear next in Frankfurt

Minimalist masterpieces on show in Sydney

The Drill Hall Gallery is showing works by Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, among others