The Art Newspaper

Leonardo's Last Supper restored: A wreck, but an authentic wreck

A twenty -year restoration project has removed many layers of overpainting

Booksarchive

The haphazard methods of art restoration over the past 400 years

Christine Sitwell and Sarah Staniforth (eds), Studies in the history of painting restoration

Ferrara pays homage to Aby Warburg

Palazzo Schifanoia displays archive material from the Warburg Institute to commemorate her work

Kusama makes a comeback with three concurrent exhibitions this Summer

Zwirner turns his gallery into a sports bar for the World Cup

Archaeologists move into war zone on Adriatic coast

The area, unfortunately located close to the conflict in Kosovo province, is largely unexplored

Provenancearchive

Probing provenance: The importance of due diligence and insurance for defective title

The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing museums and private collectors who may find themselves having to prove good title to their possessions

Europe’s top photography collection now has a permanent gallery. From the dawn of photography to now

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world

Tate, St Ives: Life is a beach

Five years on and the museum has exceeded all expectations

Ronald Lauder returns Nazi loot

1829 Kipresnky painting was taken to Berlin in the 1940's

Collectorsarchive

A survey of Ten Latin American collectors

Unsurprisingly, most of these collections strongly represent the art of their own country

Looted artarchive

Florentine seizure of war-theft paintings on loan from New Zealand

It is alleged that they were stolen from the collection of Cino Vitta, head of the Jewish community in Florence during the war

Leonardo’s Last Supper back on view as twenty-year restoration continues

Long waiting times expected as the doors reopen to one of Da Vinci's masterworks

Lawarchive

"Publication right" introduced into UK law

Museums and collectors should hasten to protect their rights in this field

Rauschenberg posts bail for his works

The artist has reached a settlement to allow his works to continue touring after being sued by an art consultant

Featuresarchive

The tensions in copyright law between the rights of artist, public and trade

We asked a number of lawyers to comment on the situation with regard to catalogues in their own jurisdictions, and found that the scope of protection varies widely

Janet de Botton gives Tate free reign with her collection

Inspired by the Tate’s plans for Bankside, she gave the museum one third of her massive collection of modern art

Per Kirkeby: His brick work at Tate and his red shadow

Kirkeby speaks to The Art Newspaper about making space in the Duveen galleries and the influence (or lack thereof) of geology and Jung

Cambodiaarchive

Radar imaging reveals ancient Cambodian ruins

Evidence of an earlier culture is found in the jungle surrounding Angkor

Unescoarchive

Ten out of forty-six new World Heritage sites confirmed in Italy alone due to the Piedmont’s latest emphasis on culture and tourism

Out of the ten newly designated Unesco sites, the biggest includes eighteen royal Savoy properties

Bonnard at the Tate Gallery: The wings of a butterfly

This exhibition shows Bonnard as a painter wholly in touch with the twentieth century and examines the relationship of his work to his wife and model, Marthe

Art marketarchive

SBC Warburg offer for Christie’s abandoned

It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found