The paintings have been missing since 1945

The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites

Cologne's title as contemporary art capital is yet to be challenged with Berlin still in the fragmentary stages

New homes, new exhibitions, for Allen Jones and Keith Coventry

Unprecedented alliance between auction house and art and antiques fair

A celebration of a dramatic life

Riley speaks of the fortuitous events that led to the upcoming exhibition at Tate and the significance of Mondrian's artistic evolution

Scholars say that famous paintings are not by the artist. Provenances difficult to prove

Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940

The find dates from around AD 650

The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company

A history of how Documenta has changed with the times

The stands in this fair cost only SFr 4,000

Exploring Basel commercial galleries; from Classic Modernists to new contemporaries

A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows

Barry Friedman shows Italian high style

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

Russian parliament voted last month to override President Yeltsin’s veto, putting him in a precarious political position

Electronic artists have time on their side in global exhibition

A list of the most important additions

Sweet censorship in Sheffield

This monumental retrospective of the Mexican photographer's unique images is not to be missed

Crucifixes and razorblades show the breadth of Beuys' production

China is in the news more and more as its economy booms and Hong Kong gets handed back this summer; Chinese art is beginning to penetrate Western consciousness

Grant shares with The Art Newspaper his conversation with Julian Spalding of the Kelingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

Neshat links three incongruous images - the bare soles of the feet, Arabic script and gun violence - to achieve a conceit

A radical change of policy as new director of antiquities takes over

His motivations to sell remain unclear

600,000 visitors a year and £3.8 million from the National Lottery