The Art Newspaper

Thefts from V&A and Courtauld Gallery

Two Constables and three small paintings discovered to be missing from storage

Art marketarchive

A river runs through it: Hanging around in New York, a monthly guide by Brook S. Mason.

Impressionist painters on the Seine at Wildenstein, the Gilded Age glows at Vance Jordan, exoticism at Mark Murray plus fine furniture and Picasso’s lino cuts

A rare homecoming for Leonardo in Milan

“The Lady with the Ermine” arrives in the city as part of its Italian tour

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The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing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